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in this life itself the tendencies of the spirit prone
to evil, tempting to lead you into iniquities ways.
Reach the next stage when the self-accusing sprit
in your conscience is awakened and the soul is anxious
to attain moral excellence and revolt against disobedience.
This will lead you to the final stage of the soul
at rest, contented with God, finding its happiness
and delight in him alone. The soul no more stumbles.
The stage of struggle passes away. Truth is victorious
and falsehood lays down its arms. All complexes will
then be resolved. Your house will not be divided against
itself. Your personality will get integrated round
the central core of submission to the will of God
and complete surrender to his divine purpose. All
hidden energies will then be released. The soul then
will have peace. God will then address you:
"O thou soul that art at rest, and restest
fully contented with thy Lord return to thy Lord.
He pleased with thee and thou pleased with him;
So enter among my servants and enter into my paradise."
[Quran 89, 27-30]
This is the final goal for man; to become, on the,
one hand, the master of the universe and on the
other, to see that his soul finds rest in his Lord,
that not only his Lord will be pleased with him
but that he is also pleased with his Lord. Contentment,
complete contentment, satisfaction, complete satisfaction,
peace, complete peace. The love of God is his food
at this stage and he drinks deep at the fountain
of life. Sorrow and defeat do not overwhelm him
and success does not find him in vain and exulting.
[Mohammed The Prophet,
K. S. Ramakrishna Rao] |
