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There is only one way to stay on the path of truth: focus your attention on the Hereafter. Only that person who keeps his eye on the achievement of “tomorrow” rather than on the “deprivations” of today will be successful.

Once a novelist wrote a long novel. This novel was very thick. A friend said, “Oh, such a long novel; you were not bored while writing this.” The novelist immediately replied:

“No. My focus was always on the next paragraph.”

Human life is also a long and tiring story written with the events of our successes and failures. There is only one way to keep a constant interest in this long and dry story. Stick to the next paragraph of the story.

The same is true of the Hereafter. A person should decide that he will lead a truthful life in this world. He will do what he should do, and he should not do what he should not do. Such a person would soon know he has taken the path of “losing” instead of “gaining”. He is not rewarded for his hard work and sacrifices in today’s world.

The people he wanted to work with would have separated because of harbouring grievances. The people he considered his partners would have left him. The people for whom he had done everything would give him only the gift of accusation. The other people would build their “palace” by working less than him, whereas he would have worked harder than them, but he would not be successful in worldly terms.

In such a situation, there is only one way to stay on the path of truth. That is, a man should focus his attention on the Hereafter. His eyes should be focused on the “next paragraph” of the story. Only that person who keeps his eye on the achievement of “tomorrow” rather than on the “deprivations” of today will be successful. He should ignore today for what he is going to get tomorrow.