News of Promotion

Once, a man said to me, “I’ve received a promotion! I’ll now get a bigger salary! I’ll have a bigger house! I’ll be given a bigger car to use! Earlier, I used to get a railway pass to travel, but now I’ll get air tickets!”

Listening to this man I thought that the issue is precisely the same with the Hereafter too. Paradise is also a sort of promotion. Those people whose record in this imperfect world is good will, after death, receive a ‘promotion’ and will be admitted into the perfect world of the Paradise in the Hereafter.

This situation demands that we should live in the world with the utmost caution and awareness. We should gauge every matter on the basis of whether it might help us or hinder us in gaining entrance into Paradise. If our mind gets awakened in this way, we will become our own watchman. We will continuously inspect our every thought, word and action. We will embody this saying of the Caliph Umar: “Weigh yourselves [in this world] before you are weighed [on the Day of Judgment].”