Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 330
330 casts off his clothes and complains bitterly of a burning sensation in his body? Again, do you not see that in the hot season, a man who has this sense out of order begins to shiver with cold and covers himself with warm clothing while others may be using ice and may be fanning themselves? Similarly, do you not see that those whose muscular sense is weakened, consider walking an intolerable burden while for others it is a recreation; such people get tired before they have walked many paces? In short, all these phenomena are being daily wit- nessed; from which one can well understand the nature of hell. It must be remembered that just as virtue has a positive existence and a misuse of the faculty of doing good is called vice, similarly, the blessings of God and bounties are positive, and pain and punishment are the consequence of the corruption which a man works in his own soul. A man came to the Holy Prophet sa and said, 'O Messenger of God, God says that paradise extends over the earth and the heavens. If this is so, where, then, is hell?' The Holy Prophet sa replied, 'When it is day, where is the night? The same is the case with heaven and hell. ' Now this cannot mean that at one time all men will be in hell, and at another, all will be in heaven, just as there is day at one time and night at another. It means, rather, that though night comes over the whole earth and day too comes over the whole earth, yet for those, who have the sun over them, it is day, and for others it is night. Similarly those who will be under God’s favour, will find themselves in heaven, and the others in hell. Hence those who through the grace of