IN SEARCH OF PARADISE
Know God’s Creation Plan
IN every person’s mind lies the idea of a beautiful world, a world that is perfect and ideal, where all his desires can be fulfilled. This concept is the biggest motivator of every person’s action. Every person is engaged in achieving this beautiful world of their dreams. They strive their whole life and spend all their energies in this pursuit. In the end, however, they feel that they have not been able to find the world they had been dreaming of and striving for. Every person starts his life with tremendous courage and high hopes, but every person dies with the feeling that despite all the efforts he has failed to get the world he desired.
Fish find solace and contentment only in water, not outside the water. In the same way, man will find peace, solace, contentment, and fulfilment only in Paradise, not outside it.
This is the story of the whole of humanity. No man or woman is an exception to it. This state of affairs then gives rise to a question that can be truly called humanity’s biggest question. Why is it that people start their lives with great hopes and aspirations, but they die with feelings of deprivation? The answer is that the beautiful world that every person dreams about is in fact the world of Paradise. This is in accordance with the creation plan of God. According to this divine plan, this ideal world, i.e. Paradise will be found in the post-death period of human life, not in the pre-death period. Man wants to find Paradise in the present, but the attainment of Paradise is not possible in the present world.
The example of man and Paradise can be likened to fish and water. Fish find solace and contentment only in water, not outside the water. In the same way, man will find peace, solace, contentment, and fulfilment only in Paradise, not outside it. The search for Paradise is another name for the search for an ideal future. One must realize that the future can be realized only in the future, it cannot be realized in the present. If man discovers this reality, he will consider the present world to be the place of preparation for Paradise. He will also realize that according to the creation plan of God, an ideal world cannot be achieved here.