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Anwar closed his eyes and said, “He wrote:
‘The reformers of our era want to eliminate this natural desire for
advancement from the people. However, God does not endorse it. He
only wants to divert the course of this desire towards the Hereafter,
and away from the present world. Instead of hoping to be a part of the
elite and privileged sections of the worldly society, he wants people to
strive to be amongst the people close to God and the elite of the
Paradise. If you read the entire message of Qur’an, you will find that it
does not want to nurture any other mindset in people apart from that.
The personalities of the companions of the last Prophet, who were the
first addressees of the Qur’an, had the same traits. The charity of Abu-
Bakr and Umar, the generosity of Abdul Rehman and Uthman, and the
simple life of Ali and Abu-Zar, May God be pleased with all of them, are
manifestations of the same firm belief in the Hereafter. To understand
the transformation that belief in Hereafter brings in one’s life, study the
following verse of the Qur’an:
Whatever things you have been given are merely for the
necessities and adornments of this worldly life. And whatever you
will get from God is much better and will last forever. Why do you
not think? Is the person to whom we have made a good promise,
and which he will get, equal to the one whom we have given good
things of this life only but who is going to face the punishment on
the Day of Judgement?
(Al-Qasas 60-61)
Just imagine about the life of the person who believes firmly in this
one verse. When such a person earns his livelihood, he will never take
the risk of disobeying God
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the result of which is Hellfire. After he fulfils
his needs, the best purpose of wealth for him would be to spend it on
adornment and beautification of his eternal and much better life in the
Hereafter. He will never jeopardise his Hereafter for the sake of any
blessing in this world. Before he even thinks about building a home, he
will first think about the home in the Hereafter; similarly, before
planning to buy a car in this world, he will plan about his transport to
the Hereafter. He will never risk losing those heavenly maidens whose
moon-like faces, attractive beauty and eternal youth will never wither,
for the sake of short-lived gratification of his eyes from the exposed and
semi-exposed women of this world.
The needs and wishes of his family can never take him on a path
that ends up at the brink of Hell. Rather, his love for his family will
compel him to take them along on the road to Paradise. He will want to
groom them, and spend time on them. He will tell them that to live is in
fact to live for the Hereafter. The real success is to gain Paradise. This
world is nothing but an illusion, a place where countless others were
tested before us, and we are also being tested. It’s just a matter of a
few years after which, neither will we be here nor would these testing
times be. If at all, it will be the blessings of God that will last. It will be
his Paradise, and his never-ending rewards. It will be the pinnacles of
esteem and appreciation that will last. The voices will have honour in
them. The faces will have a glow on them. One’s company will be that
of righteous people. Friends will be all around. There will be palaces
made of pearls and jewels, and vineyards of musk and ambrosia. They
will be embellished with silk and silk brocade and adorned with rubies
and corals. They will have streams of milk and honey; and waves of
purified water. There will be trees made of silver and gold, and seas of
water and wine. Angels will be paying their salutations, and appetising
meals will be available to savour at any time.
Hence, it will be an eternal world of luxury and delight, of water and
wine, and of castles and luxurious tents. It will be an eternal world of
prestige and style, and pleasure and rewards. It will be a world of
perpetual peace and relaxation, enjoyment and blessings. In such a
world, there will be no sorrows, no worries, and no disappointments. It
will be a world sans regrets, deprivations, and limitations. An
unfortunate person is not someone who did not succeed in the finite
world; indeed, unfortunate is the one who failed to be a winner in the
eternal world!”
As Anwar recalled the last few words, his voice became heavy with
emotions and eyes moist with tears. He was probably thinking of his
brother Jamshaid. However, he did not realise that by narrating an
abstract from my teacher’s book, he had doubled my grief by reminding
me of his fate.
I thought to myself, “It seems that one still has to experience some
sorrows even in the Plane of Judgement. It will only be in the Paradise
where one will be able to get rid of every sorrow and worry forever.”
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