In a Totally Different World

I once came across a news item that has great instructional value. It was about an Indian film actor. He had parked his big car in a parking lot. After some time, when he returned, the car wasn’t there. It had been stolen! The man had lost many of his personal belongings in the theft—including his laptop, DVDs, CDs, clothes, mobile phone, personal diary, and an expensive stone ring. “I was emotionally attached to them”, the actor explained to a newspaper reporter. “I feel like I am stranded on some island”.

This may have been the experience of one film actor, but very same sort of thing, on a much larger scale, will happen in the Hereafter. In the pre-death phase of life, a person lives amidst all sorts of things—his material possessions, his family, his job, his bank balance and so on. But in the life after death, he will suddenly find himself in a totally new world. There, he will be completely alone. All the things he was surrounded with while on Earth will have been snatched away from him. Behind him will be the world that he has left forever. In front of him will be an eternal world, which may be an eternal desert for him if he failed to lead the right sort of life while on Earth. If he did not live in line with the Creator’s creation plan, he will feel, like the actor who lost his car, as if he has been “stranded on some island”.