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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,

[1]-KANZULAAML Vol .41 P .093

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]

[1]

SAHIHTERMAZI VOL. 4 CHAP. 62 BOHROLANVR VOL. 6 P. 8128412

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:

" But the greatest of all the blisses, is the PLEASUREof God which is the supreme FELICITY."

THE HOLY QURN S 9: 27

There is not an enjoyment higher for a man THANSEEING that he is accepted by his LORD, and God is pleased with him! A tradition is narrated by Emam Zeinolb edinsaying, ' ' God will say to those in Paradise: ' My loveand pleasure for you is far above the bounties withwhich you live in FELICITY. ' ' '.[1]

What a pleasure can be higher for a man who isaddressed by his LORD that:

" O, YOU SERENE SOUL! Return to your LORD! joyful, and pleasing in his sight. Enter My Paradise and join My Servants."

THE HOLY QURN S 98: 72 03

[1]-TAFSIRAYY SHIANDTAFSIRAL MIZANS 9 :27

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44 -THERE IS ALWAYS AN IMAM

WE BELIEVE that as God has decreed to sendHis Apostles with divine Guidances, so also for any age or time, God Has appointed an Imam to look after the people, leading them to the rightious path, and to guard the divine Law against ay deviation. Imam has to know clearly, the necessities of the ages, and lead the people to the true path of God. He invites and teaches the people to obey the prophets and to follow the LAW. If not so, man will fail to obtain the goal for which he is created. i. e. prosperity and perfectoin.

Then the LAW will be abandoned, and people have to wander! This is why we believe that after our prophet, inany age or time there has always been, and there will