Allah says...

Allah says: (Whoever does good whether male or female and he is a believer, We will most certainly make him live a happy life), and this is the first future in the worldly life: (and We will most certainly give them their reward for the best of what they did) [^7]*** *** and this is the second future in the afterlife.

It is reported that Amīr ul-Mu’minīn (Imam Ali) (a.s.) has said, ‘Whoever does good for his afterlife, Allah will make his worldly life good.’[^8] The worldly life and the afterlife are not separate according to the Islamic view. We make our afterlife good by being good in this worldly life. Our second future depends on our first future; if our first future is good, our second future will be good and if it is bad our second future will be bad too.

Allah says: ((As for) that future abode, We assign it to those who have no desire to exalt themselves in the earth nor to make mischief and the good end is for those who guard (against evil)) [^9]. Dear reader, this book has between its lines the keys of the first and the second future, which is the best and which begins with you at the present moment. Yes, now and at every moment and with every breath you live your future.

So with what thinking and culture do you want to live your future in this world in order to move, after it, happily to your second future in the afterlife, which has no equal at all? That which your Kind, Wise Lord has revealed to your great Prophet (S) and that which your pure Imams (a.s.) have clarified is the truth that can make a happy and pleasant future.

Our present society, which is diseased with different kinds of cultural, psychological and behavioral diseases, will not recover, unless it makes a great effort to improve itself towards a better future! This is clear in the saying of Allah: (Surely Allah does not change the condition of a people until they (first) change that which is in their hearts) [^10]. This is the law of life. Allah says: (And that man shall have nothing but what he strives for, and that his striving shall soon be seen.

Then shall he be rewarded for it with the fullest reward, and that to your Lord is the goal) [^11]. Let no Muslim man or Muslim woman think that he or she may be happy in his or her individual, marital or family life or that his or her offspring may be happy in this life and the afterlife without undertaking the responsibility of a very exacting task!