That important ruler is our Lord, our Crea tor. Of the two travelers, one is religious and performs his prayers with fervor. The other, unmindful, rep resents the people who don t like praying. The farm is Heaven, while the station so near is the grave. The journey is from the grave to the eternal life.
People cover that long journey at different times according to their deeds and conduct.
Some of the truly devout pass the span of a thousand years in a day like lightning, some fifty years in an hour with the speed of imagination. The ticket is salat , the prescribed prayer. An hour is enough for the prayers in a day. If you spend twenty-three hours a day on the affairs of this world and don t reserve the remaining hour for the important prayers necessary for the other world, it shows your foolishness, and stands you in a condition of grave loss. You may be tempted to pay over a half of your money to a lottery in which one thousand people are participating although the possi bility of winning is one in a thousand.