Spirit of Islam · INFINITE MIND, FINITE WORLD

INFINITE MIND, FINITE WORLD

Spirit of Islam, May-June 2025, p. 18

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.

When we consider the unique quality of humanity, we find that our innate drive to find fulfilment lies in the future. This fulfilment can be achieved tomorrow, as our biological span on Earth is limited. Nature has provided for its fulfilment within our lifespan. Human life is divided into two stages: pre-death and post-death. The pre-death stage is temporary, while the post-death stage is eternal. This division is made to ensure that what we cannot find today, we may find in the next stage of life tomorrow. As mentioned earlier, our human brain contains an astonishing 100 billion particles, possessing an unlimited potential. However, our physical age of around 100 years is insufficient to realise this potential. Even if our age were much longer, the conditions on Earth are so limited that our unlimited mind cannot fully utilise its potential on this limited planet. Realising this reality compels us to believe that humanity requires a vastly greater world and a much longer lifespan for its complete fulfilment. In our current state, the potential of our minds remains far from being fully utilised. When we consider life in this context, we can liken it to an iceberg. A tiny portion of the iceberg is visible in the stage of life before death, while the majority remains hidden in the stage of life after death. It is challenging to fully comprehend human life without this analogy, and when a concept becomes the sole explanation for an observation, it becomes an academic proof of its validity. In this regard, it is the right academic and scientific stance. When we consider these realities, we learn that the present world is only a temporary abode, not the eternal destination for humanity. Every man is inevitably faced with death. What is death? It’s a bridge between temporal and eternal life. The present world is like a training period for us, a time to receive full training before moving on to the next eternal world. There, we’ll have the opportunity to utilize our full potential and achieve happiness through total fulfilment. However, in the second stage of life, only those who have received the necessary training in the first stage will be successful. Those who haven’t will be denied the opportunity to benefit from those

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