What If There Is? What If Not

One day, the Shah of Walayat and the “Gate of Science” Hazrat Ali was exchanging ideas with an unbeliever one day, who had not been aware of the reality of life beyond death. They were engaged in the following dialogue:

“What if life ceased to continue after death..? Wouldn't all your prayers such as your Salaat and fasting you practiced end up being nothing in such a case?”

Hazrat Ali replied to him:

“What if life continued after death? What kind of a situation will you be in, since you have not prepared yourself for such an environment? Even if there is not life after death as you suggested, I will not lose anything for having practiced those prayers. But if life continues after death as I believe, it will certainly be myself who will be rewarded then! Yet, you will not be able to get free from the torments and difficulties and you will be wretched forever, as you have not taken into account the probability of such life and have failed to practice the required tasks!..”

A foolish person may take a gamble on everything he had in hand, to have an instantaneous happiness or momentary satisfaction. But the suffering of any loss lasts as long as one lives in the world. The grief of such loss that is most violent at the first moment, fades away in time... However, no matter how foolish a person might be, it will never be rational for a human-being to take a risk of loosing his eternal future beyond death for the sake of a short-lived and temporary happiness by taking a gamble on and saying “maybe there isn't..!” Yet, what about if there is..!

Likewise, it is at least a sign of utmost stupidity to have such an idea as “we shall first experience death and we may then take precautions if life is to continue there afterwards!” Completely a human-like thought!

As the Rasul of ALLAH explains...

“There will remain nothing to practice after the moment death is tasted!.. Each person has the opportunity of engaging in some practices only during their lifetimes in this world. Recommendations including Salaat, fasting, Hajj (Pilgrimage) and other practices are only valid throughout our lifetimes in this world. In the life after death, there is no Salaat to be performed, no fasting to be practiced, no Hajj in order to be purified of sins!”

If all those are practiced here and now and stored onto one's spirit by his brain, its benefits will be experienced eternally in the life beyond death as a power endowed on one's spirit. After the loss of the physical body and the brain, there will be no practices left to be engaged for spirits, or getting their reward. Therefore, nothing can be greater as a mistake than having an expectation such as “we shall die first and see if there is a life there, so that we might make preparation.”

It is the greatest gift for a human-being to be able to look into the “Deen-i ISLAM,” to conceive the SYSTEM and the ORDER as it is explained to us, and to realize the universal validity of the facts mentioned therein. Such a perception will consequently bring an entirely new perspective into one's own life and lead to examining one's whole understanding of life and assessing one’s values under the framework of after-death realities.

Otherwise, NOT understanding the “Deen-i ISLAM” and the SYSTEM and ORDER that it urged us to realize, will cause us misinterpret the whole thing throughout our lifetimes, and as a result of such misinterpretation, we will end up with no preparation for the life beyond death. What's more, we will have wasted our lifetimes with the theories of a heavenly god, as being unaware of ALLAH within our own ESSENCE, and we will play in the tragic story of the regretful because of being in a veiled state of ALLAH eternally.

A life span of Seventy years seems like a long time... in consideration of earthly years. The orbit of the sun around the galaxy-center takes about 255 million years to revolve around. As soon as we access afterlife realm (akhirat), and as the physical world and solid matter disappear, we will be subject to the time dimension of the sun, from where, (from the perspective of such a dimension of time,) we will realize our earthly life to has lasted 8.6 seconds only... Then there are the dimensions and conditions of life that last hundreds of millions and billions of years... On one side, a 8.6 second life that is equivalent with 70 years you assumed to have spent on earth; on the other side, a life dimension ahead to last billions of years...

If you still cannot comprehend, consider those facts, and if you want to wretch your life beyond death by your own hands, which was defined as infinite, no doubt you have the freedom of turning your life into a Hell... Sure, it is your right!

ALLAH is never to oppress “Hu's” servants.

The cost of disregarding the “Deen-i ISLAM” behind the glasses of “Muslimism” (associating the “Deen-i ISLAM” with “Muslimism”), is rather high-priced...

We must seriously consider the operating SYSTEM under the guidelines of our existence...

Are we equals?