{ "item_title" : "Beyond This Life", "item_author" : [" Naeem Chishti "], "item_description" : "What if the greatest misunderstanding of human life is not disbelief-but mistaking preparation for arrival?Human beings live inside a world of extraordinary beauty and coherence. From birth, we are trained to inhabit it completely. We learn, compete, achieve, marry, build careers, pursue security, and measure success through visible outcomes.Nothing about this seems unreasonable.Until one question appears.What if this is not the final world?What if earthly life was never intended to carry the weight of ultimate meaning?Beyond This Life: Islamic Philosophy of 'Life as a Test' begins from a simple but unsettling proposition: The perfection of worldly creation is not evidence that this world is ultimate.It is evidence that the test is serious.Drawing upon the Qur'an, Prophetic teachings, classical Islamic scholarship, and philosophical reflection, this book presents a comprehensive framework for understanding human existence as preparation for a reality more enduring than the one we currently experience.Rather than dismissing worldly life, this book explains why the world feels final.Because it was designed to.Its beauty invites attachment.Its order inspires confidence.Its pleasures create longing.Its opportunities reward investment.The examination is meaningful precisely because earthly life contains real goods.Yet revelation repeatedly reminds humanity: This world is temporary.The Hereafter is permanent.The central question then becomes: How should this change what we desire, fear, measure, and become?Across its chapters, the book explores: Why human beings become absorbed in worldly life.How creation's apparent completeness becomes part of the moral test.Why worldly success often conceals deeper forms of failure.How careers, wealth, identity, and recognition become substitutes for eternity.Why death should be understood as disclosure rather than destruction.What righteous action means when viewed through the lens of eternal consequences.How to live fully in the world without becoming possessed by it.This is not a call to withdrawal.It is not an argument against achievement, family, ambition, or beauty.Instead, it proposes a different ordering of life.Work-but remember accountability.Build-but remember departure.Enjoy-but do not become dependent.Love-but do not ask temporary things to satisfy eternal longing.Written in a style that combines intellectual seriousness with spiritual accessibility, Beyond This Life speaks both to committed readers of Islamic thought and to anyone wrestling with deeper questions of purpose, mortality, success, and reality.Some books provide information.This book asks for something more difficult: attention.Because one day every human being will discover that life did not end.The only question is whether we remembered in time that this world was never the final destination.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/149/9798181498266_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.99", "online_price" : "15.99", "our_price" : "15.99", "club_price" : "15.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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