Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 70
71 this world. The blessings cannot be delimited even after death. The doors of blessings will remain open even in the hereafter. As the Holy Quran says at another place, he who is blind in this world will remain blind in the hereafter too. In comparison to this, the verse states here that he who is enlightened in this world will be accompanied by light in the next world as well. It is not that doors of spiritual progress will be opened to somebody only in this world and will be barred in the next world. It is not true to assume that in the next world it will be similar to the time of gathering harvest after reaping and he will not make any further progress. On the contrary, Allah the Exalted has arranged for the human soul that the enlightenment which is bestowed upon him in this world, by living up to the Quranic teachings and following the Holy Prophet sa , will accompany him even after his death. Allah the Exalted will keep opening doors of further progress to him and keep illuminating his avenues of spiritual advancement. Nowhere this avenue of spiritual progress is meant to end, for the distances between man and God are endless. How, then, stages of nearness between man and God can be fixed and delimited. The Promised Messiah as says: “Their supplication that their light may be perfected is an indication of limitless progress. It means that when they have arrived at one stage of illumination, they will perceive a higher stage ahead of them and viewing it they will consider the stage in which they are as being inferior and will