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fight in every situation. Now, we had won our war against Satan. The
struggle was over now and it was time to celebrate.
We were in that state when Saleh coughed to make us conscious of
his presence. He said:
“You can have an extended meeting later. We have to go right
now.”
I returned to the present on hearing his words. I introduced Saleh to
Naimah:
“He is Saleh,” and then added with a laugh, “He is not inclined to
leave me alone at any time”.
Naimah looked at Saleh and said, “I have met Saleh before. He was
the one who brought me here and informed me about you. Otherwise, I
would have been very worried”.
I turned towards Saleh and said, “When did you leave me to bring
Naimah here?”
“You probably don’t remember. When you were up on the summit
and quietly praying to the Lord to allow you to proceed to the Plane of
Judgement, I left you. Abdullah, it is your weakness as well as your
strength that when you are with your Lord, you are completely oblivious
to your surroundings.”
“I was not in my senses a few moments ago either but you didn’t
care to leave me in that state!” I said, turning towards Saleh.
“Well, if I had left you two together, then our next meeting would
have been after the Day of Judgement! You know, you humans are
quite ungrateful, and forgetful too. Have you forgotten where you were
supposed to go?”
“Ok, Naimah! We need to go. You should stay here and I’ll be back
shortly.”
“But what about our children?” Asked Naimah.
“They’re fine. Why don’t you go and look for them? They will be
around somewhere close by. Otherwise, I will bring them myself in a
short while. Right now, I need to return to the Plane of Judgement
immediately. We will be able to meet and sit together all our lives
afterwards.”
After Naimah’s last question, I could not afford to stay there any
longer, otherwise I would have had to tell her about two of our children
who had not managed to make it up to here; and that would have been
very agonising for her.
Naimah nodded, looking a bit puzzled.
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On our way back, I said to Saleh:
“In this life, many families will experience quite a lot of break-ups.
Some people will lose their wives and vice versa.”
“Obviously, It will happen” he replied. “People had a chance to
excel only in the past life which is over now. Here, if someone is left
behind, nothing can be done about it. However, no one will be alone
over here. No one will wait for the ones left behind. New relationships
will be formed. People will find new partners. There will be new
marriages.”
“I don’t think we will have the same kind of family system here as
we had in our past life”, I commented.
“You are correct. Actually, the institution of family was established
in the previous world because of some basic flaws in human nature. The
basic purpose of a family was to take care of minors and the elders.
Men were made heads of household to give strength and stability to the
family. To keep the family intact, women were made weaker than men
in certain areas whereas, on the other hand, men were made
dependent on women due to some of their inherent weaknesses.
Women were not only a blessing for men; they were also a necessity for
them. The system of the world could not have run in the absence of this
arrangement. But their paths would separate now. Women will remain
a source of pleasure and happiness for men but women themselves will
no longer be dependent on men. For obvious reasons, their worth and
importance will increase and so would their sense of importance!”
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