“It goes without saying that reaching eternal prosperity and everlasting paradise also have various degrees. In the world hereafter, each person will be rewarded commensurate with the basis of his knowledge, belief, gravity of deeds and ethics. Perhaps in each state, the individuals have the capacity to perceive the pleasures of that state alone and…
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The signs deriving from proximity with Allah…
“The signs deriving from proximity with Allah are not the same in all phases. For example, full knowledge of the realities, power to create anything or complete pleasure in seeing Allah is not fulfilled for every believer in this world. But those who safeguard their belief to the end of their lives and who do…
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The principal privilege of the call of Allah’s messengers…
The principal privilege of the call of Allah’s messengers over that of other reformers is that they remind (the people) that this limited and transient life is not man’s final abode. It rather is a prelude to reach eternal prosperity and it is a bridge to get to an eternal world. SOURCE: SELF-RECOGNITION FOR SELF-IMPROVEMENT…
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But if our hearts become aware of the fact…
But if our hearts become aware of the fact that this world is the lowest of the worlds and the house of decline and change, and the realm of imperfection and destruction, and that there are other realms beyond death, each of which is eternal and stable, perfect and permanent, where life is bliss and…
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Since man naturally loves immortality…
Since man naturally loves immortality, detests and evades decline and annihilation, and mistakes death for annihilation, even if his reason was to confirm this-world as the house of transition and annihilation and that-world as eternal and everlasting, his heart does not accept the findings of his reason unless these findings enter the very heart. SOURCE:…
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