Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 93
93 Malfuzat – Volume IV 1 َٗرَٗه َـ ُي ًا َر ٍََةٍ َش ُر َ ْذ َلَ َا ْق ِْثْ َم َْْمَْل ُع َ ُي ْ ُن َمَ And whoso does an atom’s weight of evil will also see it. A person will have to bear the punishment for their most hidden sins and designs. There is a major difference between the punishments of the hereafter and those of this world. The punishments of this world are to establish peace and serve as a les - son for others, whereas punishments of the next world are the final and ultimate result of man’s actions. In the hereafter, a person must be punished because they have consumed a poison, and it is not possible for one to be saved from the effects of that poison without an antidote. The punishment one receives in the hereafter is underpinned by a deeper philosophy, which no other religion except for Islam has been able to expound. Allah the Exalted states in the Holy Quran: 2 ُ َسَِبِْيًْلًا ْل ََضَ ا َوَ ٰى َم ْ ِع َ ا ِ ٍة َِرَ َخ ٰ ا اْلْ ِـي َف َ ْو ُ ِه َفَ ٰى َم ْ ِع َ ا ۤ ٗهٖ ِ ِّذ ٰ ْه ْ ي ِـ َف َنَ ْ َكَا ُن َمَ But whoso is blind in this world will be blind in the Hereafter. And even more astray from the way. This means that whoso is blind in this world will be blind in the next world also; in fact, even more frail than the blind. This clearly demonstrates that a person takes along with them from this very world the eyes with which to behold God and the senses with which to perceive Him. An individual who does not develop these senses in this world will not have them in the next world either. This is a del - icate secret that ordinary people cannot understand. If what I have explained is not deemed to be correct, it would be false to suggest that those who are physical - ly blind in this world would be blind in the hereafter also. The fact of the matter is that the key to all forms of pleasure and light in the next world is to recognise God Almighty without any error and develop deeper insight of His attributes and names. The verse just mentioned explicitly indicates that we take our punish - ment along with us from this world into the next. It is one’s benighted life in this world and one’s impure actions here which shall become manifest as the punish - ment of hell in the hereafter. This will not be something new and unrelated. A person who closes the doors in their home is deprived of light and they can - not receive fresh, life-giving air. One who consumes some poison cannot con - tinue to live. In the same manner, an individual who distances themselves from God and commits sin, becomes overshadowed by darkness and is gripped by 1 az-Zilzal, 99:9 2 Bani Isra’il , 17:73 p. 366