Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 31
Undated 31 What will Bodies be Like in the Next World? A friend asked the Promised Messiah as : ‘In the Hereafter will there be these very same bodies and houses, etc. which are here or different?’ The Promised Messiah as replied: The knowledge conferred upon me by God Almighty is ver- ily that that realm is altogether different from this world. 1 قَلْب ِ بَشَرٍ. ی َ ْن ٌ رَأَت ْ وَل َ أُذُن ٌ سَمِعَت ْ وَل َ خَطَر َ عَل ی مَا ل َ عَ قَلْب ِ بَشَرٍ. ی َ ْن ٌ رَأَت ْ وَل َ أُذُن ٌ سَمِعَت ْ وَل َ خَطَر َ عَل ی مَا ل َ عَ [All objects of Paradise will be of a calibre that was neither seen by any eye nor heard by any ear, nor conceived by any mind. ] (Hadith) It is my belief that the other world is completely distinct from this world as Allah Almighty has stated in the Holy Quran. All objects of Paradise will be such, the like of which was neither seen by any eye nor heard by any ear, nor conceived by any mind. Indeed, even in [regard to] the resurrection of bodies, my belief is the very same that that world is another world. There will be bodies, but those will be bodies composed of light, not these dark and transitory bodies. The brick and stone mansions and houses of this place will not continue in Paradise. And Allah knows best. 2 1. Sunan Ibn M a jah, Kit a buz-Zuhd, B a b S ifatul-Jannah, Hadith 4328 [Publisher] 2. Badr, vol. 6, no. 52, p. 6, dated 26 December 1907