The Road to Paradise
The Road to Paradise
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lives for anything less than the higher cause. Their
activities are ‘hereafter’-oriented rather than world-
oriented. They succeed in steering clear of all
negative feelings such as hatred, jealousy, prejudice,
selfishness and other such shallow thinking, and
raise themselves to the highest moral level. They
associate themselves with people for the sake of
truth and distance themselves likewise for the sake
of truth. They give and take for God alone. Their
lips open for the truth alone. They follow the way of
forgiveness and not of revenge in this world and do
not embroil themselves in the attractions of the
world, but fix their gaze on the Hereafter in all
situations.
A paradisiacal person, that is, one fit to inhabit
paradise, is such an ardent seeker of paradise that
he begins to feel as if he is living in paradise while
remaining physically in this world. If he has found
paradise in terms of such a feeling, in the next
world he will physically become a resident of
paradise.
God’s angels will welcome those men and women,
who reach the Hereafter with all the above qualities.
