The Garden of Paradise by Maulana Waiduddin Khan - page 26

The Garden of Paradise
A Dream World
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A DREAM WORLD
God has created man with innumerable desires and
longings. The means exist in this world for the
fulfillment of his desires, but even so, man is unable
to fulfill them. Sometimes old age intervenes and
sometimes man’s inherent limitations prevent him
from achieving what he wishes; sometimes he is
hindered by some weakness and sometimes he is
not favoured by fortune.
Is man fated to come into the world with all sorts of
desires and then leave the world, disappointed at
having achieved none of them? This is not the case:
God has prepared a paradise for man where he will
be granted all that he desires. After death man
enters into a complete world, a world free of all
defects. He will find there everything that he had
longed for on earth but had been unable to obtain.
Heaven after death is for those fortunate ones who
live righteous lives on earth; who prove by their
noble actions that they deserve an equally noble
reward. Man will find in the next life the dream
world which eludes him on earth. Only those who
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