Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 393
24 September 1905 393 1 ْنَم َناَك ْيِف ٖۤهِذٰه ىٰمْعَا َوُهَف يِف ِةَرِخٰاْلا ىٰمْعَا ْنَم َناَك ْيِف ٖۤهِذٰه ىٰمْعَا َوُهَف يِف ِةَرِخٰاْلا ىٰمْعَا And it is such people who are alluded to in the verse: 2 َو ْنَمِل َفاَخ َماَقَم ٖهِّبَر ِنٰتَّنَج َو ْنَمِل َفاَخ َماَقَم ٖهِّبَر ِنٰتَّنَج Meaning that, those who fear standing [for reckoning] in the presence of Almighty Allah will get two heavens. For me, the truth of it is that one heaven is what one acquires after death. The second heaven is bestowed in this very world and this heaven stands as the proof that the other heaven will also be granted and bestowed. Such a believer is delivered from many hells in this world. Different types of immorality are also hell. Things that one gets strongly attached to are also a kind of hell because then it hurts to abandon them. For example, if one is in love with wealth and it is taken away by a thief, he is severely trauma- tized. Sometimes such people suffer a stroke or even die. In the same way, if the mortal objects he loves perish or die, then he is deeply saddened and traumatized. There is a story in Mathnaw i that a man’s friend died and he was crying because of his grief. He was asked why he was crying and he said that a very dear friend of mine has died. He was asked, ‘Why did you befriend someone who was going to die?’ The fact of the matter is that parting is necessary and sepa- ration is bound to happen. Either he himself will depart or the one whom he has loved and befriended will depart. So that sep- aration will become the cause of torment. Nevertheless, those 1. Whoso is blind in this world will be blind in the Hereafter ( S u rah Ban i Isr a ’ i l, 17:73). [Publisher] 2. But for him who is awed by the lofty station of his Lord, there are two gardens ( S u rah ar-Ra h m a n 55:47). [Publisher]