The Journey of Life
Every person has built an entire world full of hopes and desires in his mind. Soon, he realizes he is heading instead, to the world of God, towards the Hereafter.
Mustafa Rashid Sherwani, a well-known freedom fighter, industrialist, and member of the Rajya Sabha, once travelled on a train from Allahabad to Delhi. The train reached Ghaziabad, near Delhi, when he suffered a massive heart attack. He died on the train itself before getting any medical treatment. It happened on the 8th of April 1981. At that time, Mr Sherwani was 59 years old.
Incidents like this happen every day. Every day, innumerable people pass through the door of Death. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people set off from their homes to someplace or another, but on the way, they are seized by God’s angels, who take them to the stage of the Hereafter, rather than to their desired destination.
Every person has built an entire world full of hopes and desires in his mind. He imagines that he is advancing towards the world of his hopes and walking in the direction of the ‘tomorrow’ of his dreams. However, very soon, he comes to know that he is heading towards the Hereafter, not to the world of his hopes, but the world of God. People are simply unaware of where they are heading and where they will arrive.
People generally give their all for the sake of their children. However, before they can see and rejoice in their children’s future, death drags them off to their future, for which they had made no preparations. People make magnificent houses, hoping to live there in comfort, but even before they can enter their dream houses, death takes them away. People try to become as rich as possible, thinking this will take them to the pinnacle of honour and progress, but they soon learn that what awaits them is a deserted grave.
Every day, God leads some ‘passenger’ to the grave, while the passenger thinks he is heading to ‘Delhi’. However, human beings learn no lesson from this. They still think that their destination is ‘Delhi’, not death.
