The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 414
414. Essence of Islām II righteous or disobedient, will be granted a definite bodily form of its own. That day has been appointed for the perfect manifestation of God when every person shall become acquainted fully with the existence of his Lord and shall arrive at the extreme point of his recompense. . No one need wonder how God will accomplish this for. He has power and does whatever He wills, as He has said. Himself: ا و لم ير الانْسَانُ اَنَّا خَلَقْنَهُ مِنْ نُّطْفَةٍ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُّبِينٌ . وَضَرَبَ لَنَا مَثَلاً وَ نَسِي خَلَقَهُ ، قَالَ مَنْ يُحْيِ الْعِظَامَ وَهِيَ رَمِيده قُلْ يُحْيِيهَا الَّذِي أَنْشَاهَا اَوَلَ مَرَّةٍ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ خَلْقٍ عَلِيمُ 0 177 او ليسَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَوتِ وَالْأَرْضَ بِقَدِر عَلَى أَنْ يَخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُمُ بل وهو ال العَلِيمُ إِنَّمَا آمَرَةُ إذَا أَرَادَ شَيْئًا أَنْ يَقُولَ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ فَسُبْحَنَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ مَلَكُوتُ كُلّ شَيْءٍ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَه 178 [Islāmi Uşūl ki Philosophy, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 10, pp. 402-407]. A New Body is Bestowed in the Grave. Islām sets forth the high philosophy that everyone is bestowed a kind of body in the grave which is necessary for experiencing delight and torment. We cannot say for creation of what material that new body is made, for this mortal body becomes dead and no one has observed it 177 Does not man see that We have created him from a mere sperm-drop?. Yet lo! He is an open quarreller! And he coins similitudes for Us and forgets his own creation. He says, 'Who can quicken the bones when they are decayed?' Say, 'He, Who created them the first time, will quicken them; and. He knows every kind of creation full well. '-Yā Sin, 36:78-80 [Publisher] 178 Has not He Who created the heavens and the earth the power to create the like of them? Yea, and He is indeed the Supreme Creator, the AllKnowing. Verily His command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, 'Be!', and it begins to be. So Holy is He, in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things. And to Him will you all be brought back. -Yā Sīn, 36:82-84 [Publisher]