Salvation

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An article in india times.com posted by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan,found it to be

interesting ,iam forwarding this with the hope it wud be the same for u all...

 

What is the greatest issue facing man in this world? It is how to secure

salvation in the life after death so that he may find his true abode and have a

share in God's eternal blessings.

 

Every man who is born in this present world has to enter another world after

death. In this world man was granted life's opportunities as a matter of being

tested by them. Whatever man receives in the next world will be purely on the

basis of his deeds in this world. This means that in the world before death, man

has been given a great number of things and opportunities,whether or not he

deserved them. But after death, the criterion of receiving will only be a matter

of his just deserts; nothing will be given to him to try him.

 

This means that those who are held to be deserving will be granted not out of

God's blessings but more that they actually merited. But those who have done

nothing to deserve God's blessings will have nothing whatsoever in store for

them. They will be compelled to live in a state of utter deprivation.This is

man's greatest problem. To what should he give the greatest attention so that he

may not be held undeserving in the life to come? Everyone has to himself exert

to the utmost in the consciousness that in the next stage of his life he may by

default be considered without merit. Then there would be no further scope for

him to earn God's blessings, salvation would elude him completely.

 

The next world is the most perfect and eternal world. There, all kinds of

pleasures and happiness have been stored up for mankind. It is that world which

man should cherish most, and it should be the place to which he most earnestly

aspires. But the time for action to secure a place in that blessing-filled world

is not the world after death, but the world before death. The present world is

the place for action, while the next world is the place for reaping the reward

for one's deeds.

 

Salvation in the life hereafter is only for those who prove themselves deserving

of it.