Save Yourself from Eternal Failure

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India, died on 27th July 2015. He had gone to Shillong to deliver a talk. He was making his presentation when he had a heart attack and fell on the stage. He was rushed to hospital, only to be declared dead by the doctors. He was then 83 years old.

Death is an event that all of us will face. One day or the other, the angel of death will appear before us suddenly and will, as it were, tell us, “O man! You had to live only ‘83 years’ in this word. This period is now up. Now you have to live in another world, where you will live, not for ‘83 years’ but forever!”

Most people know what they need to do in order to be successful in the phase of life before death. For this, they make elaborate preparations. But how many of us know what preparations we need to make now in order to be successful in the phase of our life after death, which will last forever? Hardly any of us!

What we need to do in order to be successful in the eternal life after death can be said to be the biggest issue before a human being. Even so, most of us are completely heedless and ignorant about this issue. Isn’t this the height of absurdity? People do everything they can to save themselves from what they regard as failure in this world. But they do nothing to save themselves from failure in the eternal world of the Hereafter—sometimes out of ignorance, and sometimes even knowing full well what they ought to do.