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unless the faith is coupled with good actions, it cannot be of any avail. What, therefore, is the paradise? It is the personifica- tion of faith and actions. Like the Hell, the Paradise is also not anything extraneous. It is something within the man. You should remember that the comfort that the man is going to get in the Paradise is constituted of what he has done in this world. The pure faith is like a plant and the good morals are like the means of its irrigation through the canals; these canals water it and make it fresh and maintain its green hue. In this world, these things are like a dream, but in the next world they will become a reality and we will be able to touch and feel them and witness them. That is why it is said that when the people in the paradise will be given these bounties they will say: Hazallazi roziqna min qablo wa ·otoo bihi mutashabiha Of course, that does not mean that what we take in this world are the ones that will be given to the believers in the Paradise. Not at all. The things given there will be of quite a different nature; it is only the nomenclature in which the things of this world and the things of the next world are common. (Malfoozat Vol. III, p. 28) TRY TO UNDERSTAND GOD It is necessary for Ma'rifat (God realisation) that first of all one should understand God and one cannot do so until one stays in the company of somebody whose personality is a God -showing personality-he should stay with him with a good intention and sincerity, and should be with him for a considerable period of time. After this it will become very easy for him to understand the whole system of rewards and 125