Way of The Seekers — Page 37
37 THE This eventuality fulfilled–as it must be–who will think that any human beings who have, by trial and error, become images of their Creator, should still remain in Hell and not go to the Garden, which is the destiny of all good men and women? From other evidence also we know that a time will come when hell would be emptied of all its inmates, also that they will all have been admitted to the Garden. All will have become good servants of Allah. When this happens, where will Satan be? Do you think he will be sitting by himself alone, unlike the rest of the creatures? He also will join the others in the Garden after he has been cleansed of all evil. So he will after all be defeated in his personal aim to mislead human beings and will himself stand desatanized. Those who consider Satan as the winning party shall stand corrected when they find Satan in the Garden, Satan who has ceased to be Satan. To turn to the question of the definition of the perfect man. The perfect man is free from sin to the extent that in after- death he finds himself equal to the requirements of the good life. "Requirements of good life" means to deserve the pleasure of God and to be safe from His displeasure. The good soul has enough good deeds to its credit to enable it to enter the Garden of Divine pleasure at once. The emphasis is on at once. The perfect man is ready to enter the Garden at once to which sooner or later, every soul will be admitted. The perfect man’s only distinction is that he will be among the first to enter. What is Sin? I now turn to the definition of sin. Sin is an activity which renders the human soul sick and incapable of viewing the face of God. Difficulties have to be encountered in the journey which the soul undertakes as it moves towards the purpose of its creation. Activities which amount to sinning are either physical whose dangers are visible to oneself as well as to others; or, they are spiritual. Of the physical activities many are such that the dangers and disabilities they entail are obvious