Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 321
321 from thirst and I felt as if I had drunk my fill. The Promised Messiah as too has recorded many such experi- ences of his own. Once, in a state of complete wakeful- ness he saw Jesus of Nazareth in his spiritual body, and held a long discourse with him about the corruptions that had found their way into Christianity and the way in which they could be removed. On another occasion he even dined with him. To those who are strangers to these things, such experiences may savour of mental derangement and may have no greater value than mere figments of the imagination. But those who have had personal experience of such matters and are well-versed in spiritual sciences can fully understand and appreciate them. These spiritual conditions are quite different from the conditions produced by the attention of the mesmer- ist and are governed by a different set of laws alto- gether. In short, the world of dreams and Kashf serves as an illustration of the life to come and enables man to judge of the nature of the next world’s life. As all objects in a dream are spiritual, and yet have a body, similarly the things of the next life will have a body, but that body will be spiritual and not physical, and the soul will perform spiritual functions still higher in the scale. The Holy Quran explains the conditions of the next life thus: It says that the deeds done by man in this life will assume a shape in the next. What we call the water of the next world will be but an embodiment of man’s actions in conformity with the Law of God. The milk of the next life will be but the Knowledge of God which man acquires in the present life. The fruits of