Man's trial rests on his discovery of God, Who is in the Unseen. Before seeing Him, man should voluntarily surrender himself before God. He should be so greatly desirous of paradise that this present world appears meaningless to him. He should adopt divine ethics without any external pressure on him to do so. He should develop his intellectual and spiritual being to such an extent that he produces in himself, the ability to inhabit the refined world of paradise. Paradise is a heavenly colony where peace and love, and noble character prevail. Of the inhabitants of this world, only those will find a place in paradise, who have succeeded in maintaining a high moral character.

For one who has no concept of paradise, total fulfillment in this present world will turn out to be a lifelong quest that has ended in failure. People expend all their energy in its pursuit, but they fail to construct this dream world for themselves.

One, who is able to discover paradise, begins his life in paradise from this world itself. Here, he will have the pleasure of its intellectual discovery; and after death he will have the pleasure of actually experiencing it. Today, he is blessed with peace of mind; tomorrow he will experience this peaceful life in his external world also. Today he has the full satisfaction of conviction at the intellectual level; tomorrow he will find an opportunity to live in the pleasures and comforts of practical life. Today he is living in a world of limitations; tomorrow he will find an unlimited world in which to live forever, in total freedom. Today he finds paradise in the intellectual sense; tomorrow he will find it in the practical sense. Indeed, there is nothing greater than this for man.

Animals have no consciousness of tomorrow. They live only in their 'today' and die in their 'today'. Whereas man has a sense of tomorrow. Man cherishes a very pleasant consciousness of tomorrow, an aspiration towards a better day, or the fulfillment of his dreams. All human beings strive hard to make their tomorrow better and better.  But they do not find this 'tomorrow'. The reason being that this 'tomorrow' is not to materialize in this world, but will come into existence, in the eternal life to come, i.e. in the Hereafter.

After death, everyone will discover that 'tomorrow'. Those who have prepared for it will meet with all kinds of success there, while those who have not made the necessary preparations will be doomed. They will be denied all the good things of that life.

This world is therefore a 'pathway' and paradise is its 'final destination'. Man has come here to tread this path while on his way to eternal bliss.

Paradise is an eternal abode: a perfect place for all kinds of happiness and comforts. Paradise is free from all kinds of limitations and disadvantages. Paradise is the realization of human dreams of finding an ideal world. If the present world is a 'thorn,' then the world of paradise is the 'rose'.

In this world everyone suffers frustration and failure. The reason is that everyone wants to find his desired world in this present world itself, whereas the present limited and ephemeral world is not created for this purpose. That is why, despite all efforts, one fails to find one's dream world in this life. The present world, in actual fact is not paradise; it just makes paradise understandable to us. By nature, the present world is an imperfect and limited model. It however gives us some glimpses of 'perfect' things, which give us an introduction to paradise. If our eternal life is a journey, it is just a waiting room and not the final destination of the journey. But man often mistakes it for his destination, and his life thus becomes one of missed opportunities.

The present world is a passageway and not the destination. It is the place for preparation, and not for reaping the harvest. The present world is full of limitations. It does not have the means to fulfill the unlimited desires of man. It has all the means of subsistence at the animal level, but does not have the spiritual necessities of the higher level of man.

During this limited life span on this earth, what man needs to do, first and foremost, is to seek the Creator and Sustainer of this universe. Having seen a glimpse of paradise on this earth, he should become its seeker in his heart of hearts. Intellectually, spiritually and morally he should make himself deserving of an abode in the extreme refinement of paradise. He should devote this present life span to preparation for an unlimited life in the hereafter.

Every man and woman born in this world is like an 'ore', which has to be refined and fashioned into steel, in order that they may become a part of the consummate world of the Hereafter. Every living being has to awaken his or her consciousness to the ultimate extent. Human beings are born at the animalistic level. They have to elevate themselves through intellectual and spiritual development. Those human beings that are not able to attain to the human level will find a place in the 'dustbin' of the Hereafter, hell being another name for it. Those who succeed in reaching that high level of humanity will find a place in the orchard of happiness in the world to come, which is what we call paradise.