Paradise on Your Wish List

Some years ago, a woman landed up with a job of her dreams, a job with time, a famous American magazine. In the 15th August 1991 issue of the magazine there is a glamorous picture of hers, below which she joyfully exclaims that working for TIME was always on her ‘wish list’.

Every person considers something or the other as his biggest thing. He lives in the hope of obtaining it. He dreams of it. He eagerly awaits it. This thing is the Number One item on his wish list. In this present world there is no one who doesn’t have something or the other as the focus of his hopes and desires in this way.

A person of faith in God is he who has written Paradise on his wish list—the world of eternal and perfect blessings, where he will see his Lord, where he will live in the shade of God’s blessings, where he will be in the company of the righteous, where he will be free of all vain and sinful talk, want and fear, where there will be perfect peace and delights that have no limits.