The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 415
Resurrection 415 coming alive in the grave. The earthly body is often cremated or is preserved in museums and is kept outside a grave for long periods. If this body were to come alive, people would observe it and yet the Holy Qur'an affirms that a dead person comes alive. One has, therefore, to accept that a dead person is revived with a body which we cannot see. May be that that body is created from the imperceptible qualities of this body. After that body is bestowed, human faculties are revived as this second body is much finer than the first body. It experiences visions very widely and all the realities of the hereafter become visible to it as they are. Wrongdoers then suffer not only a physical torment, but also a torment of despair. Thus it is an agreed principle of Islām that the torment or comfort of the grave is also experienced through a body, and this is the demand of reason also inasmuch as experience has affirmed that the spiritual faculties of man do not manifest themselves without a body. [Kitāb-ul-Bariyyah, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 13, pp. 70-71]. Nature of the Hereafter. The hereafter is a reflection of this world, and the consequences of faith and disbelief that appear spiritually in this world would be demonstrated physically in the hereafter. God, the Glorious, has said: 179 من كان في هذة أَعْمَى فَهُوَفِي الآخِرَةِ أَعْمى ). He who is blind in this world shall be blind in the hereafter. . We should not be surprised at this and should reflect how 179 Bani Isrā'il 17:73 [Publisher]