The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 447
Heaven and Hell 447. ANSWER: According to your principle those who attain salvation will be expelled from the house of salvation after a fixed period and their weeping and crying will attract no mercy and the order of their expulsion will be carried out with great harshness against their will and they will be thrown out of the house of salvation in great disgrace and humiliation. At that time will not that paradise become a hell or even worse for them? In this condition of compulsive misery where will be their independence and what happiness will they feel? You say that those who attain salvation will dwell in great joy and happiness. Can any perfect happiness be enjoyed in a place where one is faced with the prospect of expulsion and enduring misery for millions of years once more, and all the time one is eaten up with the anxiety that after a short while one would have to encounter countless humiliations and would have to pass through incarnations of insects and dogs and cats? . . . . . May God save us from your house of salvation. If such is. Permeshwar and his house of salvation, then the unfortunate pious people will have only weeping here and weeping there. . Your objection that in the paradise of the Muslims worldly bounties will also be provided has no substance. . On the contrary it should put you and your Permeshwar to great shame, inasmuch as the All-Powerful and SelfSufficient God of the Muslims has out of His limitless treasures permanently and eternally bestowed everything in the hereafter on those who believe in the Holy Qur'ān and has bestowed upon them spiritual as well as physical bounties, inasmuch as He knew that His true worshippers do not obey Him and worship Him in this world only through their souls, but through their souls and their