CONCEPT OF SALVATION

Badges mark quoted or attributed material (Qur'an, hadith, another author, an opposing view). Unbadged passages are Maulana Wahiduddin Khan's own words.

Contents (51 chapters)

1. Foreword
2. TAWHEED:Oneness of God
3. WHO ARE ANGELS?
4. WHO ARE THE PROPHETS?
5. PROPHET MUHAMMAD
6. LIFE OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD
7. THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHET
8. QURAN: Word of God
9. HADITH: Traditions of Prophet Muhammad
10. ISLAM: Submission to God
11. IMAN: Belief in God
12. THE TRIAL OF MAN
13. CREATION PLAN OF GOD
14. ACTIONS DEPEND UPON INTENTION
15. CONCEPT OF HEREAFTER
16. PARADISE AND HELL
17. RABBANIYAT: Islamic Spirituality
18. TAQWA: God-Consciousness
19. SHUKR: Gratitude to God
20. ZIKR: Remembrance of God
21. SALAT: Prayer Instills Modesty in a Worshipper
22. SAWM: Fasting Teaches Restraint
23. ZAKAT: The Law of Almsgiving
24. CHARITY: Well-Wishing of Others
25. HAJJ: Piligrimage to Makkah
26. THE SIMPLE PRINCIPLE OF MORALITY
27. SABR (PATIENCE): The Superior Solution
28. SPEAKING THE TRUTH
29. FULFILLING PROMISES
30. THE IMPORTANCE OF CLEANLINESS
31. TOLERANCE LEADS TO RESPECTING DIFFERENCES
32. JIHAD IN ISLAM
33. AVOIDANCE OF CLASH
34. AT THE TIME OF DIFFERENCES
35. A GOOD NEIGHBOUR IS A GOOD HUMAN BEING
36. A BELIEVER’S DUTIES TOWARD HUMANITY
37. SERVING HUMANITY
38. ISLAM AND HUMAN EQUALITY
39. HUMAN BROTHERHOOD
40. GOD-ORIENTED LIFE
41. PRAYER: Expression of Heartfelt Attachment to God
42. PRAYERS REFRESH THE FAITH OF THE BELIEVER
43. MORNINGS AND EVENINGS IN THE LIFE OF A BELIEVER
44. TAWASSUM: Spiritual Nourishment From Everyday Events
45. HOW SHOULD ONE LIVE IN THE FAMILY?
46. BEAUTY IN SIMPLICITY
47. DIVINE WAY: MOVE WITHIN YOUR SPHERE
48. THE PURPOSE OF WEALTH
49. LOSS AND GAIN
50. CONCEPT OF SALVATION
51. CONCLUSION

CONCEPT OF SALVATION

Salvation in the Hereafter is for those who have made themselves deserving of salvation in the life before death by their righteous actions.

What is the greatest issue that should concern a person? It is to attain to salvation in the life to come after death and to have a share in God’s mercy for all eternity.

Everyone who is born into this present world has to enter into another world after death. In the present world, a person has all kinds of opportunities to shine while being tested. In the next world, what he will receive will be by way of rewards for his actions. In the world before death he received everything, whether or not he deserved it. But in the world after death, this will no longer be the case. He will receive nothing without having deserved it. At that time, the sole criterion for receiving anything will be merit.

In the next world, only those who are held to be deserving will be showered with blessings of all kinds, whereas those who are lacking in merit, will have nothing.

This is every human being’s greatest problem. Everyone ought to focus totally on not being held undeserving in the next life so that he may not be one of those who fail to achieve salvation. Everyone must devote the utmost effort and give his full attention to how he conducts himself in this present world, so that he may not be held to be lacking in merit in the next stage of life, but rather be the worthy recipient of blessings and salvation.

The next world is a perfect and eternal world, in which there will be all kinds of pleasure and happiness. It is this world to which a person should aspire and it is this world for which he should expend all his energy. It is for this world, full of blessing, that an individual should prove his mettle before rather than after death. The world of today is the world of action: the next world is a world of reaping the rewards for one’s actions.

Salvation in the Hereafter is for those who have made themselves deserving of salvation in the life before death.