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Spirit of Islam Issue 35 November 2015
In the Industrial Age, the earth has been beautified. Its cities have been
meticulously planned. Developments in science and technology have
made the earth a better place to live. Similarly, with the dawn of the
final period—the Spiritual Age—the earth will be further improved to
become an ideal world. A number of verses in the Quran give clear
indications of this. For instance,
Praise be to God, Who has fulfilled His promise to us and bestowed
upon us the earth to inherit, so that we may dwell in Paradise wherever
we please.
(THE QURAN 39: 74)
Paradise is described as being ‘as vast as the heavens and the
earth, prepared for those who believe in God and his Messengers’.
(THE QURAN 57: 21)
The earth will shine with the light of its Lord.
(THE QURAN 39: 69)
Today our world is potential Paradise.
Tomorrow this potential will become a reality,
and the earth will become a place of eternal
happiness and joy.
Although on earth there exists nature’s life
support system in its perfect form, events
have shown that the present state of the earth
is not an ideal one. Nature’s system may be at
its best, but the presence of both good and
evil make it far from ideal. Here, individuals who do good and those
who do bad exist alongside each other. The presence of people who
misuse their freedom is the source of all kinds of evil. But as the final
phase of civilization approaches, the bad individuals will be separated
from the good. They will be deprived of the resources of the earth, and
the earth will be entrusted solely to the good. This is the truth which
has been mentioned in the following verse:
And indeed, We have written in Az-Zabur (Psalms) that My righteous
slaves shall inherit the land. (i.e. the land of Paradise)
(THE QURAN 21: 105)
This statement in the Quran is recorded in detail in the Book of Psalms
in the Bible:
The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell in it forever.
(PSALMS 37: 29)
By Divine
arrangement, in
Paradise, justice will
prevail in its most
perfect form.