The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 418
418. Essence of Islām II for is personified in one's dreams. The same is the case in the life after death. As a dream produces a change inside us and demonstrates our spiritual condition in a physical form, the same will happen in the life after death and our deeds and their consequences will be physically demonstrated and whatever we carry with us from this world in a hidden manner will all appear openly on our countenances on that day. As a person views diverse forms of images in a dream and never considers that they are images, but believes them to be real, the same will happen in the life after death. Through these images, God. Almighty will demonstrate a new power. As His power is absolute, then, even if we do not talk of images, it will be true and absolutely correct to say that, by the grace of. God, it is a new creation. God Almighty says: 181 فَلا تَعْلَمُ نَفْس ما أخفي لَهُمْ مِّن قُرّةِ أَعْيُنٍ ). No one, who performs good deeds, knows what a variety of favours lie in store for him. . Thus God describes those bounties as hidden, no specimen of which is to be found in the world. It is obvious that the bounties of the world are not hidden from us and that we are well acquainted with milk and pomegranates and grapes and we always eat them. This shows that those bounties will be of a different type and will have nothing in common with these except the name. He who considers paradise as a collection of worldly bodies wholly misunderstands the Holy Qur'ān. [Islāmi Uşūl kī Philosophy, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 10, pp. 396-398] 181. Al-Sajdah, 32:18 [Publisher]