What Wrong Have We Ever Seen In Truth And Justice That We May Turn Toward The Wrong Path

What Wrong Have We Ever Seen In Truth And Justice That We May Turn Toward The Wrong Path
Knowledge of the hereafter

Has a man who is religious, who walks straight and acts with justice any deprivation compared to one who adopts an irreligious and unfair path? What does the former lack? These veiled women who observe religious commands; are they lacking in anything when compared with the free thinking unveiled women? What comfort is not available to the religious woman? Do not imagine that more pleasure of life is available to the unveiled women. If there is any happiness, it is for the faithful also. If there is illness and pain, it inflicts both. There is no difference between them. Both are participating in the pleasures of marriage. Both are equal in the matter of legal and lawful worldly joys, though such joys too are not permanent. On the contrary, we often see how an irreligious person suffers several deprivations. Let me give an example. Such an irreligious man looks at a beautiful woman in a cinema hall and his heart becomes untrollable. Sometimes he becomes mad after such a desire. But does he succeed in what his heart longs for? Whatever troubles he may take, it is not necessary that he must succeed in his desire, because it is possible that the said woman may be married. How sorry will that man be after knowing this? Or think of the drunkards. It is quite possible that in their condition of intoxication they may quarrel or kill one another and then lead a lonely life behind bars for several years of unlawful pleasure. This applies to other matters too.

Peace And Comfort Is Only For The Faithful

A trader who cares for what is permissible and what is unlawful knows that the guarantor of his sustenance or provision is Almighty God. So he does not indulge in dishonestly and unfair dealing in his business. He does not worship the buyer. He does not flatter or deceive his buyers. But the unlucky trader who does not care for truth and justice and fair play, flatters his buyers and deceives them in various ways. From every angle, we find such traders wrong and wayward. If we look from the material viewpoint, we will find that the deviated people are in no way superior to the righteous ones. Rather if there is anything like true happiness and peace of mind and comfort it is available only to the righteous and religious people: Oo Laa Ika… (Surah An'am 6:82)

Translation: Only for such people is peace (and satisfaction) and only they are rightly guided.

The Profit Of Materialists Is Doubtful

The summary of our saying is that those who abide by the balance of truth have not lost or missed anything in this world also, nor are they now at any loss. Rather, even if there is any profit they alone are benefited by it. On the contrary, those poor people who deviate from the true path are certain to bear the loss in the Hereafter. Their profit in this world is also doubtful. Rather, they get nothing but loss and harm. For example, if he has gained a profit of ten rupees by way of cheating or unfair dealing, he spends a hundred fold in medicines. So, O people who seek satisfaction in this world! Never deviate from the true path. Let me know, have you ever suffered any loss due to walking the straight path? If you have not told a lie even in any single matter, have you definitely suffered any loss due to that truthfulness? Then why should we ever leave the path of truth?

Come, let us all take an oath that we will never deviate from the balance of truth and the balance of truth is the person of Amirul Momineen (A.S.).

Four Groups Of People According To Their Accounting

On the Day of Resurrection, people will be divided into four groups on the basis of their accounting: Some people will enter paradise without any accounting. They will be the friends of Ahlul Bayt (A.S.) who never committed any unlawful (haram/prohibited) deed or they left the world after repenting. Another group will be quite opposite of them, that is, they will go to hell straight away without any accounting. About them God Almighty says in the Holy Quran: Fa Laa…Wazanaa. (Surah Kahf 18:105)

Translation: So We will, on the Day of Resurrection, not establish any balance of justice for them (and hurl them in the hell straight away). There will be no accounting of those who leave the world without Faith. There will be no value of their deeds because they had died without Faith.

Punishment For A Hundred Years Due To One Sin

The third group is of those people whose deeds will be worth weighing. They will remain suspended in the stage (station) of Qiyamah. But at last, since their good deeds will be more (than evils) they will get salvation. Of course their suspension in the station of accounting will be in proportion with their sins. Therefore, once the Holy Prophet told Ibne Masood: Man will remain suspended for a hundred years in Mahshar due to one sin (though finally he will enter paradise). Innal…Aam

Of course, the narration does not specify what kind of sin it will be. So a faithful must fear the suspension in the station of Mahshar accounting. He should refrain from all big or small sins.

The fourth group will consist of those people whose number of whose sins will be more than that of their good deeds. If they are lucky to get the intercession of the impeccable and if God showers His mercy on them, they will get salvation and will go to paradise. Otherwise they will be awarded the punishment in hell. They will have to remain in hell till they get purified by the chastisement. Then they will get salvation and angels will take them to paradise. No person who has even the slightest Faith will remain in hell forever. Only the denier Kafirs and the enemies of Ahlul Bayt (A.S.) will live in hell permanently. It means they will get no reward (everything will be given to them either in the world or in Barzakh). Even if his good deeds are numerous, he will never get a place in paradise because the basis of entrance to paradise is belief in Almighty God and His Signs (verses). One who does not have faith in God and who dies in such a condition, how can he ever see paradise?

The Provision Of Righteousness Is To Die With Faith

It is mentioned in the hadith regarding a Bedouin and Soosmaar (lizard) found in Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol. 10 that the Holy Prophet once said: I will provide guarantee the provision of righteousness to the one who will provide a journey provision to this bedouin. Salman asked: O messenger of God! What is the provision of righteousness? The Hazrat said: Saying Laa Ilaaha Illallaah at the time of death. If you say so at that time, you will see me. Otherwise you will not see me.

It must be understood here that saying the Kalima-e-Tawheed means dying with faith in heart. So if one is in the state of dying and is unable even to move tongue and to utter anything, the said faith in heart is enough. In such a condition if people make him hear Talqueen, he must take it to heart.

Nullifying Of Deeds And Expiation Of Sins

Wal LaZeeNa…A'maalahum (Surah Muhammad 47:8-9)

Translation: And those who are believed and did good deeds and who put faith in the book revealed to Muhammad by his Lord and which is right, God removed their sins from them and straightened their condition.

We intend to describe this matter in a style understandable for all. The fact is that if a man leaves this world with no faith in God even after doing only good deeds throughout his life, he will not be benefited by it. Ahbaat means to nullify, make void, to end and finish. Dying faithless nullifies all good deeds. If somebody asks: Is it not written in the Holy Quran: Fa Man…Yarah (Surah 99:7). Meaning: If one does even an iota of good deeds he will get its reward. The answer is: The person who died faithless has himself destroyed his deeds, because, after denying God, there is no meaning for him of getting any reward and entering paradise (that is, whatever good he did, he did not do in obedience to God, but he did it only because it was good in his thought). Therefore, God also paid up him the reward of that good deed in the world, as He has said that He does not destroy anyone's deed, as we have said earlier, for example, it is possible that he may get relief during the agony of death or he may not become ill or regain health soon, may not suffer any monetary losses etc.

Curtain Between Haatim And Nausherwan And The Fire Of Hell

It is also likely that good deeds of a denier may cause curtailment in his punishment in the Hereafter. Accordingly it is said that since the generosity of Hatim Tai and the justice of Nawsheerwan was famous, hellfire does not burn them though they are in it.

It is in Quranic text: Wa Lal…Kuffar (Surah Nisa’: 18)

Also it is mentioned at another place: Wal Lazee…(Surah A’raf 7:147) meaning: Those who denied our verses (signs) and their attendance in Hereafter, all of their deeds went in vain. They will be given only the reward or punishment of what they did. That is, One who goes as a denier from this world, his deeds will go in vain.

* The Hereafter - Ma'ad. Chapter 3. By Ayatullah Dastghaib Shiraazi (q.s.).