Muhammad The Great Exemplar — Page 27
27 God has created the sun for the sake of the human eye, it was for certain that He would also have produced a spiritual sun and a spiritual light for the sake of the spiritual eye. The former is temporary, whereas spiritual sight serves a person in this life and in the hereafter. He explained the issue of life after death from multiple perspectives and in a way that it became more of a practical concern than an intellectual one. Human deeds endeavour for great rewards, therefore it is necessary to keep these incentives hidden from them, for if they were revealed, people would be deprived of free will and be subject to predetermination. The hereafter is not an alternative realm, rather, it is a continuation of this world wherein the human soul is liberated from material influences and roams freely on those paths it had prepared for itself through its earlier deeds. God Almighty is not a wrathful king. His attributes necessitated the creation of humankind and those same attributes also necessitate that in the end all people reach their ultimate goal. At some point, whether before or after, everyone will be united with the Being Whose mercy brought them into existence. Thus the Holy Prophet sa took those hidden matters which constitute the foundations of faith out from the cloud of uncertainty, and placed them under the shining light of the sun for everyone to see them with