The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 446
446. Essence of Islām II produces fire, in the same way, Divine wrath striking these false beliefs and wrong actions will produce flames of fire and that fire will consume the disbelievers and the wrong-doers. As you observe that the fire of lightning meets the inner fire of a person and the two consume him, in the same way, the fire of Divine wrath meeting the fire of false beliefs and wrong actions consumes a person. This is indicated by Allāh the Exalted in the Holy. Qur'ān: نارُ اللهِ الْمُوْقَدَةُ الَّتِي تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى الْأَفْئِدَةِ 0 220. What is hell? It is the fire of Allāh's wrath, which sets the hearts ablaze. That is, the hearts in which the embers of misconduct and false beliefs are still smouldering will feed the flames of their own fire with the fire of the. Divine wrath and the two fires jointly reduce them to ashes just as lightening reduces a person to ashes. [Majmu'a Ishtihārāt, vol. II, pp. 189-190]. QUESTION: 221 Let Mirzā Ṣāḥib recall his own belief, according to which after death a person who attains salvation will dwell in a heavenly mansion where God has planted a garden and where handsome women are provided and streams of wine, etc. , are running. In short, even after salvation, all worldly provisions will be present and nothing more. Even that which is prohibited here, like wine and multiplicity of women, will be provided there. This is not true. Those who attain salvation shall pass their time happily and independently. 220 Al-Humazah, 104:7-8 [Publisher] 221 This extract is from the debate held in 1886 between the Haḍrat. Mirzā Ghulām Aḥmad (the Promised Messiah), and Lāla Murlidhar, an Āryā Samājist. [Publisher]