personality, so that he might inhabit the next
eternal world of Paradise. But man mistook
those things provided by his Maker to be
luxuries and, instead of preparing himself for
paradise, he began building a ‘paradise’ in this
world itself.
God continued to send warnings of different
kinds, but man could not be brought to his
senses. In this way, he forfeited the justification,
in the eyes of God, to stay in this world for a
further period of time.Apparently, now the time
has come when this world should be terminated
and man should be brought to book and be held
accountable on the Day of Judgement.
Final Reckoning
The Quran and Hadith have clearly predicted
the occurrence of this great event. From the
Islamic viewpoint, God had made this world
for a limited period of time. Now those signs
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