04THE PASSAGE WAY ,(BRIDGE) AND THE SCALE TOWEIGH DEEDS
WE BELIEVE that in the Doomsday, thePASSAGEWAY( SERT )and the scale for weighing our deeds do exist. By the PASSAGE WAY, a bridge is meant, which is laid over the Hell, and every one must pass over that bridge to reach PARADISE! Yes! The bridge or passage way that may lead to Paradise, hangs over the FIRE.
" There is not one of you who shall not pass throughthe confines of the Hell! Such is the absolute decree of your LORD. We will deliver those who fear Us, but the wrongdoers shall be left to endure its torments on their knees."
THE HOLY QURN S 91: 17 27
Passing through that hard passage- way, depends onwhat MAN had done before. We read a famous tradition thus:" Some people will pass the bridge as quick as a lightning! Some pass it over as, fast as a speedy horse, others like the pedestrains. A group will go on, leaning on their hands and feet, and some are
hanged by their hands, trying to pass over the blaze ofHell. So the Hell catches some and leaves some to go to the gardens of BLISS; As for the SCALE, it is a means by which the human deeds are measured and weighed so as to specify their values.
" We shall set up the scales of justice on the day ofjudgement, and not a soul will be dealt with unjustly in the least. And if there be the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it to account; and enough are We as the accountant."
THE HOLY QURN S 12: 74
" Then he whose scales( OF GOOD DEEDS )are heavy, shall dwell in BLISS, but he whose balances) OF GOOD DEEDS (are light, the ABYSS shall be his home."
THE HOLY QURN S 101: 6 9
WE BELIEVE that salvation in the next life, depends only on one's deeds and acts and not on his fancies and thoughts. There; No one can be redeemed unless by piety and good deeds, and the Grace of God.
" Every soul will be held in pledge for its deeds."
THE HOLY QURN S 47: 83
This is a brief description about the scale, the detailof which we know not, because the world to come is far above the lower world within which we are imprisoned.
14INTERCESSION IN DOOMSDAY
WE BELIEVE that in doomsday the prophets andthe innocent saints might intercede on behalf of some sinners with God, and plea for their forgiveness. We should not forget that such intercession is only permitted for those who have not entirely cut off their relation with God, and His Apostles. Therefore the intercession is not done unconditionally.
" He knows what is before them and what is after them, and they( i. e. the APOSTLES )offer no intercession except for those who are conformed, to the will of God, and they) ALL (stand in awe and reverence of God's GLORY."
THE HOLY QURN S 12: 82
As we have already mentioned, intercession is away to train man, a means of preventing him to drown
in the sea of sins, while it may teach him to repent andreturn to his Merciful Lord from evil.
Certainly the highest rank of intercession belongesto the APOSTLES, and then it lowers to the saints, tothe learned, the martyrs, and true believers to somerelative extents.
In a tradition narrated by Emam Sadiq we have:" There are none among the first and the last, who arenot in need of Mohammad's intercession in doomsday. And also in another tradition we have:
" There are five intercessors in Doomsday: 1 QURN 2 OBSERVATION OF BONDS OFKINSHIP. 3 TRUSTEESHIP 4 YOUR. PROPHET( MOHAMMAD ). 5 YOUR PROPHET'S NEARESTKINS.".[1]
We have also received another tradition fromEmam Sadiq:" In the resurrection day God raises the Asceticwor shipper and the LEARNED BELIEVER to life. He will say to the ASCETIC WORSHIPPER: Go
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and live in MY PARADISE. ' But He will say to thelearned: Stay here, and intercede on behalf of the people. ' This tradition contains a minutely fine point aboutthe philosophy of INTERCESSION.
24THE WORLD OF THE DEAD (BARZAKH)
WE BELIEVE that between death andresurrectoin, there is a third WORLD, called BARZAKH, in which the souls of all the human beings who die will live there untill they are raised again:.[1]
" When death comes they say:" My Lord! turn meback to life in order that I may do the good works which I have neglected. ' No! BY NO MEANS!( is the answer to their request )This is what they ask, but over them is the BARZAKH.") A world in which people shall live ofter death and before judgement.
(THE HOLY QURN S 32: 49 001
We know not much about this world which is inbetween the raise and death and is called BARZAKH,
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but we know that therein the sanctified souls, like themartyrs and the pious live a blissful life:
" Do not think of those who are slain for the sake ofGod, as deads. No! They are ALIVE, and have their sustenance in the presence of their Lord.
They rejoice for what Allah gives them out of HisBOUNTY; and with regard to those left behind,( THEBELIEVERS WHO ARE NOT DIED YET )who havenot yet joined them, the martyrs give glad tiding, notto fear, nor have they any cause to grieve.
They give good news of the BOUNTY of ALLAH, andthat God will not leave the rewards of the faithful to belost."
THE HOLY QURN S 3: 961
On the other hand the souls of the oppressors andthe rebels and their followers and evildoers are allunder torture in their life in BARZAKH.
They are brought( i. e. THE PHARAOH ' SFOLLOWERS )in fornt the fire morning, and evening, and when they are raised for the FINAL JUDGEMENT, the companion of PHARAOH are cast
into the severest penalty ."
THE HOLY QURN S 04: 64 A third group with less guilt are neither among thefirst group nor among the second ones. In the world after death they are some how like a sleeper who sleeps by death and awakes by resurrection.
" When the hour of doom overtakes them, the wrongdoers will swear that they tarried not in( BARZAKH )but an hour, and thus they are ever deceived.
But those who are endued with knowlege and faith willsay: You have stayed till the day of resurrection, aswas decreed by Allah, and this is the day ofresurrection yet you did not know it."
THE HOLY QURN S 03: 65
In an Islamic tradition it is narrated by the prophetwho said," The grave is either a GARDEN OF BLISS OF the Paradise: or AN ABYSS of the Hell.".[1]
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34THE CORPOREAL AND INCORPOREAL REWARDS
WE BELIEVE that the rewards in Hereafter arecorporeal as well as incorporeal;( i. e. SPIRITUAL )because the resurrection is Spiritual as well as PHYSICAL.
Whatever is written in the HOLY QURN aboutthe fruitful Gardens in paradise with streams flowingbeneath its trees
( S 9: 98 )
with perpetual foods andshades,
( S 31: 53 )
and the beautiful clean wives there in, with whom they marry
( S 3: 51 )
, and also about thepenalty and punishments in hell, and that burning fire, are all evidences that the rewards there are corporeal.
And more important are the SPIRITUAL rewardsthat are promised the faithful believer, such as beingnear to God, and seeing the manifestations of God'sGLORY and beuty. These are among the pleasuresthat no eyes has seen and no tongue can describe.
Some of the verses in QURN that denote thematerial bounties and Graces of God in the Paradise, end with phrases like: THE PLEASURE OFALLAH: