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                                                  IN THE NAME OF GOD

SUBJECT : self-knowledge

TITLE : HUMAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS

5rd part :

Some religious scholars, believe that perdition and destruction of man is limited to intermediate world (the world after death and before pandemonium, and some others attribute it to the pandemonium. Of course, both the aforementioned views are correct, because, if a foul characteristic is fixed in man, even if he passes the intermediate world with difficulty, he shall need intercession on pandemonium or he will be treated according to his foul or good conducts, so that he passes the bridge to heaven. Some people will reply to their conducts in the intermediate world and the whole accounts of their acts will be cleaned, excluding the right of the people which shall be cleaned after all the holders of the aforesaid rights are satisfied. Thus, man shall make endeavors to gain prosperity in the intermediate world (which shall lead to pandemonium). A man enjoying good behavior shall hold in fact a healthy soul and shall be eternal. Such a man has approached Almighty God and the page of his actions is white. Like the martyrs who have enjoyed good temper in this world and have added to their eternal ranks or the knowledgeable people who have lived in a healthy correct manner and have been pious. A healthy soul is a soul the veil (sins and immorality) of which has been removed. Our soul is placed under veils. There are people who see their souls empty of any veil and serve as contention. They have made much attempt and have deserted the world pleasures and tolerate the physical and mental pains, but they don’t complain. Like many Saints of God, prophets, and relatives of prophet (peace be upon them) who tolerate much nuisance imposed by the governments, to keep live Shiite and to make prototype for all the Moslems.

The other point worth-mentioning is that a soul not enjoying Good Faith, will make sick the body. So, it is better that our body gets sick, when our soul makes endeavors for attainment (not suffering from soul faults.)

Explaining this case, it shall be said that it is obvious that when we make efforts, to find faults in our personalities, to extract and destroy them, we take out the veils and darkness and we impose pressure on our body and bother it.

In fact, pressure on soul will disturb the life of body and soul veils and fouls damage our heart, soul, body, while unfortunately, we neglect the case and will only witness the damage to our body.

If man finds the correct path of life, he can reach the real prosperity, even if there is a defect in his body or if he has lost an organ.

Holy prophet (peace be upon him) prescribed: If it was not for the fact that army of Satan has surrounded the heart of man, he would witness the reality of creatures.

Satan rotates around us repeatedly to augment the veils and if we can not reach purification of our souls, we won’t attain the elevation. On the other part, intellect works, soul reflects it's capability, man struggles among them. When veils are augmented, Satan fulfills his wishes, and the worst acts seem  ordinary to us and we can not find out that they are bad ones. If you take out clothes of 2 year child, he will be shameful and will be hidden on the back of her mother. This is because his soul is pure of any veil. But, when he grows up, it won’t be important for him to show his body or not, because the veils have been thickened, so he does not recognize that this is a hideous act.

Prophet of God prescribed: “I have some different status towards God, of which no angle and no prophet will have the capability”. Only in this narration prophet has expressed his relationship with God so explicitly. In fact he wants to say: Don’t compare yourself with me! I have different status. You should fulfill manners, should know the routes, should make meditations, should estimate our behaviors, should compute the extent of your closeness to God, so that God will grant you. God will grant to everybody, divine graces, only we should be watchful and should know the extent of your faith in heart and in practice, so that you are able to comprehend the graces. A simple example is that when we were embryos we were not aware of the world of childhood, we did not know the world. We were born, we became infants, we were not aware of the world of the people in general. We grew up, we became adults, we were among the people, we were not aware of the world of the learned, we were not aware of the world of prophets, so a learned man having fulfilled his knowledge, shall enjoy graces of God and shall join the Saints. The doors of grace and spirituality are opened to him including the doors of metaphysics. This is decree of God that in the system of creation, man shall reach the degree of Saints, so that he would influence on  metaphysics. For example, God has mentioned Zolgharnain in Quran, verses: 83 to 98 of Kahf sura: “ Zolgharnain said: the wealth God has granted to me is much better than your costs (I don’t need your materialistic helps) so that you would help me by the power of your hands, so that I would construct for you a strong dam to avoid you completely of stealing”. Verse 98 continues: “Zolgharnain said: this power and capability for construction of dam, is a sign of grace of my God and when God is fulfilling his promise (the day of pandemonium or emergence of the Ressurector), the dam will be destroyed and God shall fulfill his promise.” It indicates that Zolgharnain became powerful for graces of God and had dominance on east and west of the world and could comprehend metaphysics. In fact, these verses show well the result of fulfillment of science and enjoyment of God’s graces, which will help man reach the grade of Saints. Of course, the efforts made by fathers and mothers and ancestors of man shall be significant. In fact, they have made much attempt and the child who was born by the next generations has enjoyed aptitude and according to his aptitudes and capabilities, the doors of God’s graces are open to him and he became aware of metaphysics. God has created no exceptional man, but it is only the sign of efforts of those who had come before him which has promoted his capacity and this is the law of creation. As a result, his responsibilities are much more, because he shall be aware of the people, to pray for them, to remove their problems, because his prayers and his comments are effective. He is a scholar and this is important. All of us should study, should make researches, should think, should be watchful, should know our fouls, should clean our souls of fouls. A man who is always careful of his behaviors, will be careful even when he sleeps.

When man begins to think, when God is kind to a person, he might think continuously for six months, but he will at last makes a conclusion. Of course, this man shall add pureness of his soul to his thoughts, then he can make conclusions.

Cleanness of soul is the same as purification. It means do not repeat your vices. Science, purification, thought should accompany each other to bring good results. If we do not repeat our vices, we shall enjoy repentance by a prayer.

God prescribes: “Of course one who penances, who is faithful to God, who is virtuous and is guided, shall be forgiven by me.”

this stage, we shall purify our souls, just as water passes filters to be treated, soul shall pass filters so that all impurities are removed and destroyed. Meantime, Satan is not permitted to enter the thought until purification is complete. Purification is difficult and Satan applies methods such as discouragement, making disappointed, making doubtful, being exempted of errors and makes us gradually certain that we have committed no sin.

If we obtain science, if purification of our souls accompanies thought, we will obtain correct and complete results. If we are cheated by Satan in the middle of our path, we should not be disappointed, should start again, should release ourselves, should try hard, and make new attempts. For instance, a baker makes a repeated work every day. When he is 70 years old, he is still a baker and performs the same work. Is he tired? Does he leave work? Baking is a way he can earn money, so he is not tired. We should believe that  a way of earning money for us is to perform purification, catharsis, consideration and we should repeat them all the time. If a way to obtain one’s portion is to work for God’s sake to make God satisfied, to be prosperous, then, tiredness shall have no meaning. Consequently, thought and science shall make the basis of attainment by relying on God and appealing the prophet and his family.