Principles of Islam
45. Salvation
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This is man’s greatest problem. To what should he
give the greatest attention so that he may not be
held undeserving in the life to come? Everyone has
to himself exert to the utmost in the consciousness
that in the next stage of his life he may by defau1t
be considered without merit. Then there would be
no further scope for him to earn God’s blessings,
salvation would elude him completely.
The next world is the most perfect and eternal
world. There, all kinds of pleasures and happiness
have been stored up for mankind. It is that world
which man should cherish most, and it should be
the place to which he most earnestly aspires. But the
time for action to secure a place in that blessing-
filled world is not the world after death, but the
world before death. The present world is the place
for action, while the next world is the place for
reaping the reward for one’s deeds.
Salvation in the life Hereafter is only for those who
prove themselves deserving of it in this world.
