The Road to Paradise by Maulana Waiduddin Khan - page 12

The Road to Paradise
The Road to Paradise
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strive hard to make their tomorrow better and
better. But they do not find this ‘tomorrow’. The
reason being that this ‘tomorrow’ is not to
materialize in this world, but will come into
existence, in the eternal life to come, i.e. in the
Hereafter.
After death, everyone will discover that ‘tomorrow’.
Those who have prepared for it will meet with all
kinds of success there, while those who have not
made the necessary preparations will be doomed.
They will be denied all the good things of that life.
Who would be the people of paradise? Those who
discover the Higher Being, that is God, and who are
able to turn their natural potential to good account;
who are able to awaken their spirituality to such a
high degree that they can receive the realization of
the Hereafter in the present world itself. While
living in this world, they become inhabitants of the
world of paradise on the conscious plane. They are
physically in this world, but psychologically they
are in the world of the Hereafter.
When this paradisiacal personality develops in
human beings, the present world is rendered
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