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Ways To Attain Sincerity

Hereafter have the value of flawless diamonds. The intense
curiosity, fervent love, terrible greed, and stubborn desires, and
other intense emotions in man’s nature were given in order to gain
the matters of the Hereafter. To direct those emotions in intense

fashion towards transitory worldly matters means giving the price
of eternal diamonds for pieces of glass that are to be smashed." 19
In these words, Bediuzzaman compared this worldly life
to a breakable bottle, and the hereafter to a diamond. Anyone
acting insincerely, by becoming carried away by this worldly
life, will lose his heavenly recompense, just as a man
sacrificing a diamond for a worthless glass bottle. On the
other hand, one who comprehends that this world is a guest-
house will not commit the same error, and will exert himself
to the utmost in this world and the next.

Thinking about Death, the Day of Judgment
and the Hereafter

Some appraise the significance of death in the wrong way.
They consider it as a termination, a putting to an end of the

blessings of this worldly life, causing them to say a last
farewell to this life, never to return again, and to vanish by
decomposition in the earth. However, these thoughts stem
from a failure to duly comprehend Allah’s existence, as well
as the reason for creation of themselves and of this worldly
life. They are not aware that their worldly life is nothing but
a test to determine the course of their true lives after their
passing away. They consider this world as the reality and the
hereafter as a delusion. For this reason, they perceive death,
which merely ends this worldly life and begins the other