The book was written by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. He was born on 1 January 1925(96). He is an Islamic scholar and peace activist. He has been listed in the 500 most influential Muslims in the world, and he has written around 200 books. The Final Journey is his recent book published in 2021. It was an Urdu book entitled “Akhri Safar” that was translated by professor Farida khanam. The book was published by Good-wordbooks publication, printed in India. This book talks about life and after life.
The author explains that people have lost themselves in this world, but it is a fake world with fake joy and happiness. The author said that everything in this world is fake except the death; death is the only horror reality of this fake world. People, the Sun, the Earth, even this technology is fake and these things such as cars, smartphones etc, all are fake and just give us fake happiness. We assume that this is the only world where death is the end of it. However, it isn’t a reality.
The freedom we have in this world, we think we are free but we aren’t. We are in God’s country what he wants; he will make us do that. As the author said in a chapter of the book that how the Ivory Coast’s hydro-electric turned into a standstill and they lost electrical power then they realized what an artificial world we have. They took their electricity for granted and they saw the result. If we take our duties for granted, we have to face a result too. Overall the book says this world is an examination hall in which we are only taking exams for eternal life, how we perform here; the same results we will get for eternal life.
However, this book can be one of my favourite books. This book talks about very interesting things as well as it talks about many true events which can be very informative for us. To believe or not, but this book tells the reality of this world, life and human beings.
Bebarg Ameer
paanjgur, Balochistan