Introducing Islam a Simple Introduction to Islam
Life’s Journey
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LIFE’S JOURNEY
Everyone’s mind is full of hopes and ambitions.
Everyone cherishes some dream and likes to think
that he is progressing towards the fulfillment of that
dream. Death puts paid to all his hopes and shows
him that he has been travelling towards the world
of God, not the world of his own fancies. The
journey of his life is not destined to end in this
world: he is bound for eternity. How ignorant man
is of his own fate! How different from what he
imagines his real destination.
Man spends his life ensuring that his children make
the most of their future, but he does not live to see
the fruits of his efforts. Before long he himself is
forced to face a future for which he has made no
preparation. Man strives to build himself a
comfortable home, but death comes between him
and the enjoyment of which he dreamed. Man seeks
to enrich himself; he thinks that the more he earns,
the more he will advance in honour and prestige.
But soon he has to come to terms with the fact that
he is bound for the desolation of the grave rather
than the honour and prestige of which he dreamed.
