Life Supreme — Page 27
30. LIFE SUPREME 3. REFLECTIONS ON THE SOUL 'And thou, O soul at peacer Return to thy Lord well pleased with. Him and He well pleased with thee. So enter thou among My chosen servants. And enter thou My Garden. ' (89: 28-31). The most precious part of our being is the soul for it is the seed from which develops our new spiritual body in the Hereafter. As the infant grows and matures physically and mentally in accordance with the nature and distinctive peculiarities locked in the cell lodged in the womb of the mother, so, in a more or less similar manner, our soul serves as the seed which grows into our new spiritual body after death; and the condition of this spiritual body will much depend on the condition of our soul when it finally quits its earthly home. . It is crystal clear that the paramount aim and object in the life of every Muslim should be the proper nourishment of his soul which is achieved only through obedience and dedication to the laws and principles of Islam. He should be constantly reviewing his habits of living, ever eager to overcome all manner of un-Islamic conduct; and to take positive steps in advancing along all paths of virtue. This is the grand goal of life-the secret of success and happiness in both worlds. . The existence of the soul is as great a certainty as is the existence of the human body in which it dwells; and the existence of the world to come is as much a fact as is the existence of this material universe. . The greatest evidence is the Holy Quran-the Word of God. . In the Holy Quran Almighty God has given repeated warnings concerning the folly of forsaking spiritual obligations in order to gain and satisfy material interests. Islam means resignation to the Will of. God. This is the message which was reiterated time and time again by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah, on account of the irreligious and wayward pursuits into which Muslims had drifted. Foolish is the Muslim who defies the laws of God and shows more interest in worldly affairs than in the betterment of his soul. The day must come when he will regret it. "Until when death comes to one of them, he says entreating, 'My. Lord send me back, that I may do righteous deeds in the life that I have