34 / 54
31
Spirit of Islam Issue 35 November 2015
The pure bliss of
Paradise will not be
fleeting in nature but
truly eternal.
From the scientific and academic standpoint, the above-mentioned
facts make the ideal age of the future—the ‘spiritual civilization’—
understandable in terms of being a Super-Industrial age.
This fourth phase of civilization is yet to reach realisation, but it is in
this phase that the ideal world—in religious terms, Paradise—will most
probably take shape. The present transitional period is a condition
which may be called ‘Paradise-in-the-making’.
Paradise is the final journey of civilization. By the laws of nature, such
a world will definitely come into existence in due course. Therein, all
limitations and disadvantages will come to an end; there will be no
fear or grief, nor hurt or pain. All those potentialities which have been
integral to man from the beginning of time, will be fulfilled in the world
of Paradise.
Human personality will attain new heights of
development. This, will be the culmination:
he will become the perfect man. He will find
eternal life where old age, accidents, disease
and death are absent. This will be the ideal
world, where man will be in a position to
use the full potential of his personality and
experience complete fulfilment.
Paradise will be the pinnacle of the evolutionary process of human
civilization. It will be the dawning of the perfect and ideal world of
which man has always dreamt. Paradise will be the ideal realm of joy,
peace and eternal happiness.
Paradise will not be a place of stagnation. In Paradise, man will make
unending discoveries. There will be no boredom in Paradise, because
boredom prevails only where new discoveries do not take place. Fresh
experience is the greatest source of happiness, and in Paradise, the
doors of unlimited truth are ever open. The pure bliss of Paradise will
not be fleeting in nature but truly eternal.
The making of Paradise is just as possible as the making of the earth
and the development of civilizations. In ancient Stone Age lay hidden
an Agricultural Age, which emerged in due course. Similarly, in the
Agricultural Age, the hidden more developed Industrial Age emerged at
the proper time. By the same token, we can say that there lies hidden
in this Industrial period a far more developed, refined and spiritual
world which will appear in time for all to see. The emergence of this
spiritual, or heavenly period is, in practical terms, as much a possibility
as that of previous periods of history.