Principles of Islam
45. Salvation
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45. SALVATION
What is the greatest issue facing man in this world?
It is how to secure salvation in the life after death so
that he may find his true abode and have a share in
God’s eternal blessings.
Every man who is born in this present world has to
enter another world after death. In this world man
was granted life’s opportunities as a matter of being
tested by them. Whatever man receives in the next
world will be purely on the basis of his deeds in this
world. This means that in the world before death,
man has been given a great number of things and
opportunities, whether or not he deserved them.
But after death, the criterion of receiving will only
be a matter of his just deserts; nothing will be given
to him to try him.
This means that those who are held to be deserving
will be granted not out of God’s blessings but more
that they actually merited. But those who have done
nothing to deserve God’s blessings will have
nothing whatsoever in store for them. They will be
compelled to live in a state of utter deprivation.
