According to this Creation Plan of God, human
beings are placed in situations where they have
to face hardships from time to time throughout
their lives as part of their test. Difficulty and
sadness are integral part of the creation plan of
the Creator. No man has the power to extricate
himself from this life of trial and tribulation.
This
arrangement is to remind man of the fact that
the present world has not been made as a place
of luxury and comfort, but rather as a period of
trial and as such as will help determine whether
he is eligible or not for the eternal life in Paradise.
In spite of tremendous development in the
present world, adverse conditions are still very
much in evidence. But people, owing to their
lack of awareness of God’s creation plan, do
not understand why this is prevalent. So, they
continue to react negatively to situations and by
giving such a response, prove themselves—in
the eyes of God—to be failures in the examination
he has set for them.
Stress is also a major
problem faced by people everywhere. Many
institutions have been established which claim
to be able to eliminate stress. What these
institutions actually do, in their endeavour to destress
people is to ask them to stop their thinking
process, thus bringing on them a kind of
temporary anaesthesia. This is, however, not a
real solution to the problem of stress. There is
only one true solution to this problem and that is
to adopt the correct attitude to stress—that of
managing stress instead of trying to eliminate it
or react negatively to it and thus pass our test.
Unpleasantness has been put into this world for
man to learn the right lessons from it. The true
lesson taught by unpleasant experiences is that
man remembers the next world of Paradise.
Seen in the light of this creation plan, the root
of all human problems is that the unenlightened
want to make their Paradise in this world prior
to death, whereas under the natural laws, the
situation here on earth makes this impossible.
According to God’s creation plan, man has to
be content in this world before death, so that he
may be sure that in the world after death he has
Paradise in store for him. The right and proper
thing for man to do is therefore to acknowledge
and accept this law of creation, and plan his life
accordingly. His sole aim in this present world
should be to make himself acceptable in the eyes
of God, so that he may be held eligible for
admission into Paradise in the eternal world after
death.
A successful person is one who has
realized the eternal world in this temporary
world; who has discovered in the failures of the
present world, the secret to eternal success in
the next eternal world.
--Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
( Ref - Reality of Life )
