The Road to Paradise
The Road to Paradise
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meaningless in their eyes. Their intellectual plane
reaches to such heights that everything becomes
immaterial. They do not find any fulfillment in the
material things of the world. The world of paradise
is so perfect that the riches of this world are nothing
in comparison to it. Owing to their heightened
consciousness, they realize that the present world is
not the place that they have been created for. Their
hearts cry out to God: “O God! Bestow on us, the
paradise of the Hereafter. Give us a place in the
world of Your neighbourhood.”
The present world is just an introduction to
paradise. It is not paradise in itself. The present
world is a passageway and not the destination. It is
the place for preparation, and not for reaping the
harvest. The present world is full of limitations. It
does not have the means to fulfill the unlimited
desires of man. It has all the means of subsistence at
the animal level, but does not have the spiritual
necessities of the higher level of man.
In the world of the Hereafter, all evil people will be
separated from the good. Only good people will be
given a place in the dwellings of paradise. Besides