Paradise the manifestation of characteristics and Actions:
God shall let the faithful men who take deserved actions, enter the
paradise where there are trees which create shade for the land to
protect it from sunlight, where the streams flow.
( Sura: Haj, verses: 14 & 23 )
Paradise
is a manifestation of soul of the faithful man in
aftermath
and since
soul of the faithful man
is saved from moral anxieties due to relying on God and has reached
peace through the heat and burning of disappointment and deprivation
and dust and flood of the satanic thoughts and oscillation and moral
anxieties, and it enjoys graces of God with gladness, even in the
most exact minutes, such as agony, he thinks about God and keeps in
peace , thus, in the aftermath, when divinity of the objects emerge,
divinity of man’s soul looks like a paradise the trees of which have
branches and leaves so much so that they reach each other and makes
shade on the land, to protect it from burning sunlight or the storm
of the vents and dust of satanic dreams.
So, whether we
look at paradise from viewpoint of emergence of the actions,
emergence of divinity of soul of the faithful man, or as punishment
of the act, anyway, the result shall be equal. The people who refer
to God by being faithful and by making good acts, they are placed in
the paradise to lie under the shadow of the trees with long branches
and leaves.
The streams flowing in Paradise:
The streams flowing in paradise are indeed the sciences and
knowledge which bestow living to the hearts; since the faithful men
being aware of knowledge and science and by acknowledgement to
monotheism of God and properties and names of His sacred instincts
and acknowledgement of truthfulness of Imam and prophet (p.b.u.h.)
they have irrigated their hearts by such knowledge. There, the
emergence of such knowledge as
living of heart,
serve as water streams which revive the dried land.
All the
faithful men who commit good act including acknowledgement of the
Imam of the Time- shall enjoy the same streams. The extent of pious
act of the non-pious act shall serve the same as Imam’s confirmation
and his non-confirmation. So, any action commanded by Imam, is a
pious
act and any act prohibited by Imam is
non-pious
act. Since, Imam’s view and Imam’s foresight is a realist and
truthful view, therefore, exceeding the words of Imam is deviation
from reality and truth.
The four streams at paradise:
the story of a paradise promised to the people living in this world,
is that there are streams of transparent and fresh water flowing in
the paradise and the streams of milk, the color and taste of which
shall not change and there are streams of wine which helps those who
drink it, reach the peak of enjoyment and the streams of pure honey
and all the fruits and grace of Almighty God. Is the person living
in such an eternal paradise like one who shall stay in hell and
drink the hot water which will burn all the organs inside him?
Sura: Mohammad,
verse: 15
In this sacred
verse which mentions that there are four streams in paradise, there
are streams of
fresh water
having not been infectious, because in the world of nature, the
creatures shall obtain life from water.
We give life to everything out of water, why don’t you keep faith to
God?
Sura: Anbia,
verse: 30
Water Streams:
It is the life of heart which depends on science and knowledge of
God, thus, the streams of science and knowledge which flow at hearts
look like the transparent streams which do not change which are
apparent. The streams, guides and all types of sciences are true on
which living of heart depends and by which the instincts of man are
saturated and it means that such sciences are not infected with null
habits and void traditions and corrupted beliefs and this stream
belongs to those who has reached the
rank of heart
within the path of God and have enjoyed the divine sciences without
the soul’s intervention.
Streams of milk:
there are the streams of milk the taste of which has not changed
which present the emergence of sciences suitable for those
initiating the path of God. Since milk is the child’s food and the
sciences belonging to actions and morals, such as religion and
philosophy are prior to soul purification, thus, their emergence
serve the same as the streams. They are attributed to the weak
points which enjoy aptitude to pass the soul stages and due to
avoiding sins and immoralities and are able to reach the rank of
heart. But, they have not yet reached the same level and for having
learned the preliminaries of science, morals, and acting
accordingly, they re-enforce their spirits. Lack of change of tastes
of such milk streams is for lack of their pollution with corrupted
intentions and actions of the barbarism which separates the sciences
from piety and property and change the same to the poison.
The streams of wine:
The third are the streams of wine which are much enjoyable to those
who drink. In the world, wine is a material with bad smelling and
bad taste which removes the sense and comprehension and descends man
to the rank of animals. But, wine in the aftermath is a divine
attraction which appears in the heart under manifestation of
properties and names and wonders wisdom so much so that despite
seeing the unlimited divine names and properties and due to its
capabilities the wine elevates the man from rank of wisdom to a
higher rank which is that of intuition and heart.
Streams of honey:
the fourth stream is that of honey, a pure one where there is no
sign of wax and which is very sweet. Thus, the sweetness which are
brought from the world of sanctum and the enjoys at different stages
fro those who move towards God, which make the men think about God
and concern their elevation, emerge there as the streams of pure
honey lacking interventions and boredom. Of course that belongs to
those who are interested in such attractions and who have not yet
been thankful for observation of the manifestations.
Thus, what has
been said are the
streams of milk
of sciences for those who initiate,
steams of honey
which belong to the average people who observe the properties of
God, the
streams of wine
belong to those who has forgotten their being since they are in love
of the eternal being and are under influence of that face, they are
blurred by his rays.
Imam Knowledge:
Seyed Mohammad
Hossein Hosseini Tabatabaei, page: 183