Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 332
332 themselves through the soundness of their senses. The Holy Prophet sa says, 'God will say to a person: 'Leap into hell. ' When he will leap into it, he will find it a place of joy. ' In short, all those things which the spiri- tual body will experience in the next world will be the consequence of the right or wrong use of the seven senses. There is this difference indeed that the inmates of hell will be confined to their respective places, but the dwellers of heaven will be free, just as a sick person is confined to his bed, while a healthy person moves about freely. For, hell is a prison or a hospital, and heaven is a pleasance. Hell is limited while heaven is unlimited. An inmate of hell will not be able to move beyond his prescribed limits. But a dweller of heaven will be free to go wherever he pleases. For him all space will be heaven. Even if he enters the place where the inmates of hell may be suffering the tortures of hell-fire, it will be to him like a pleasure garden. As the inmates of hell would suffer tortures and it distresses one person to see another in torture, the inmates of hell will be concealed from the eyes of the dwellers of heaven by means of a curtain so that the sight of their torture may not cause the latter any pain unless they themselves desire to see them. The inmates of heaven will not be aware of one another’s condition; each will be conscious only of his own. But if God wishes to exalt a person to a higher position, He will make him aware of the condition of the person above him. Then will that man yearn for the next higher position, and will have his wish granted.