The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam — Page 110
104 the soul at rest, which carries a person from the grade of a moral being to the grade of a godly being, as Allah, the Glorious, has said: يَا يَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَجِنَّةُ ارْجِعِي إِلَى رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً ) فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبْدِي وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي 146 That is, O soul that has found its rest in God, return to thy Lord, thou well pleased with Him and He well pleased with thee. So enter among My chosen servants and enter My Garden. At this place, in order to explain the spiritual conditions, it is best to explain the commentary of this blessed verse with a degree of clarity. It should be remembered that the highest spiritual condition of a person in this life is that he should find comfort in God and all his satisfaction, and ecstasy and delight should be centred in God. This is the condition which is called the heavenly life. In this condition a person is bestowed the heavenly life in this very world in return for his perfect sincerity, purity and faithfulness. Other people look forward to paradise in the Hereafter, but he enters it in this very life. Arriving at this stage a person realizes that the worship that was prescribed for him is in truth the food 146. And you, O soul at peace! Return to your Lord well pleased with Him and He well pleased with you. So enter you among My chosen servants, And enter you My Garden. (The Holy Quran, al-Fajr 89:28-31)