FULFILMENT IN PARADISE
The present world is just an introduction to Paradise. Those who discover God and mould their life according to His Creation Plan will attain Paradise in the Hereafter.
Paradise is the name of the ideal world, the desire for which is lodged in the hearts of all human beings. In Paradise, man’s personality shall achieve fulfilment in the complete sense. Man desires Paradise with every fibre of his being, and Paradise in all its entirety awaits him.
Paradise is a world where man attains his complete fulfilment, where he thinks the way he wants to think; where he sees what he desires to see; where he listens to the sounds that give pleasure to his ears in the real sense; where he touches those things which give him the highest degree of pleasure; where he has the company of those people who make his life highly meaningful, where the winds are life-giving zephyrs for him, where he eats such food as he eternally craved for and he sips such drinks as are only beautiful figments of his imagination today.
Paradise, hidden from our eyes due to the exigencies of man’s trial, has been created for man alone. However, entry to this world of Paradise has been restricted. Entry will be given only to those pure souls who have brought with them the necessary qualification.
Paradise has been brought into existence in the world after death. The stage before death is one of preparation, and the stage after death is to receive the reward commensurate with this preparation.
The present world is just an introduction to Paradise. It is not Paradise in itself. The present world is a passageway and not a 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 fulfil the unlimited desires of man. It has all the necessary components for man to prepare himself for Paradise, but it is not a place to achieve fulfilment of his desires.
A paradisiacal person, one fit to inhabit Paradise, is such an ardent seeker of Paradise that he begins to feel like he is living in Paradise while remaining physically in this world. If he has found Paradise in terms of such a feeling in this world; in the next world, he will physically become a resident of Paradise.
We can say that to be held eligible for entry into the perfect world of Paradise in the Hereafter, we must discover God’s Creation Plan. According to this Plan, we must spend a period of trial in this imperfect world, and according to our deeds, we will earn the right to inhabit the perfect and eternal world—Paradise. We are, therefore, placed in situations where we face hardships from time to time throughout our lives as part of our test. Our desire for Paradise should make this world seem insignificant to us. We should discover and submit to our Creator while He is unseen and willingly adopt divine ethics. We should develop ourselves intellectually and spiritually so we will be found eligible for the citizenship of the refined world of Paradise by God Almighty.
