1. The angel replied, “God Most High made this world for many people, but the future world for only a few.
2. Ezra, let me give you an illustration. If you ask the earth, it will tell you that it produces a large amount of clay for pots but only a small amount of gold dust. And that's how it is with the present world:
3. many have been created, but only a few will be saved.”
4. I said to myself, “I must search for wisdom and try to understand.