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.