Our Lord has created every human being to take delight in
beauty and perfection, and has given us a spirit to yearn for
these things. For this reason, from the first moment we
start to understand life, we feel a constant desire to attain this per-
fection. We are always searching for the blessings of beauty around
us. But, no matter how much we may desire these things and no mat-
ter how great our effort to attain them, we will never attain this per-
fection in this life. This is because Allah has created human nature to
be content only in the Garden, and the desires of the human heart
can only be fulfilled there. Allah has created this worldly life to be
wanting and deficient and, indeed, there are reasons for these defi-
ciencies. One of the reasons for the creation is to allow human beings
the opportunity to make a sincere effort to attain the absolute beau-
ty of the Garden.
Everyone would like a world without sickness, death, war, battle,
need and anxiety, and everyone looks for ways to live a happy, prob-
lem-free life. However, in the Qu’ran Allah says that human beings
will be able to live such a life only in the Garden. That is easy to at-
tain: we must live lives that are pleasing to Allah. Then – Allah will-
ing – we will attain a perfect and endlessly happy life, a life more
wonderful than we could ever have desired or imagined.