Resurrection Judgement and the Hereafter

Lesson Twenty The Eternal Nature of Punishment The eternal nature of the punishment that the faithless and wicked are to suffer in hellfire presents a problem for many people. Given...

Lesson Twenty The Eternal Nature of Punishment The...

Resurrection Judgement and the Hereafter by : Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari Translated by : Hamid Algar About the Author 5 Lesson One The Two Aspects of Death 11 Lesson Two...

Resurrection Judgement and the Hereafter by : Sayy...

Lesson Fourteen Characteristics of the Hereafter The images that we form in our minds of persons, gardens, cities or other places when we hear them described to us, are generally...

Lesson Fourteen Characteristics of the Hereafter T...

Lesson Seventeen The Criteria by Which our Deeds will be Judged Let us now examine how our deeds will be judged and weighed after resurrection. As we have previously remarked,...

Lesson Seventeen The Criteria by Which our Deeds w...

Lesson Fifteen Compensating for Our Sins In just the same way that numerous bodily sicknesses can be cured, the spirit can be cured of its afflictions. Islam has pointed the...

Lesson Fifteen Compensating for Our Sins In just t...

Lesson Nineteen The Assumption of Form by Our Deeds In the past it was believed by specialists in the empirical sciences that an insurmountable barrier existed between matter and energy....

Lesson Nineteen The Assumption of Form by Our Deed...

Lesson Sixteen Man's Situation in the Intermediate Realm The present existence of an intermediate realm and of separate destinations there for the virtuous and the wicked is a well-founded religious...

Lesson Sixteen Man's Situation in the Intermediate...

Lesson Eight The Autonomy of the Spirit as a Proof of Resurrection The existence and independence of the spirit can also be adduced as a decisive and convincing proof of...

Lesson Eight The Autonomy of the Spirit as a Proof...

Lesson Eleven The Evidence of Experience, (Continued) Man's ever-increasing curiosity first began to exercise itself on objects that were far removed from him — the stars. Now it is his...

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Lesson Seven Resurrection Prefigured in This World We are witnesses to a ceaseless process of motion and change in the world; everywhere we see impressive scenes of the renewal of...

Lesson Seven Resurrection Prefigured in This World...

Lesson Thirteen The Resurrection of Man in Both His Dimensions Now let us see what the nature of life will be in the hereafter. Will resurrection be exclusively corporeal, so...

Lesson Thirteen The Resurrection of Man in Both Hi...

Lesson Nine The Sovereignty of the Spirit We are aware of two realities in our being one the external compound that is our body, fully accessible to empirical science, and...

Lesson Nine The Sovereignty of the Spirit We are a...

Lesson Four Resurrection, a Manifestation of Divine Justice The question of divine justice — a question which has numerous dimensions — must be raised at this point. We observe that...

Lesson Four Resurrection, a Manifestation of Divin...

Lesson Two Two Views Concerning the Pleasures of This World Man can construct a solid barrier against the danger of the dissolution of his inward personality only when he attains...

Lesson Two Two Views Concerning the Pleasures of T...

Lesson Five Man's Essential Nature as Evidence for Resurrection If we look at religion from the viewpoint of the history of human society, we will see that at every stage...

Lesson Five Man's Essential Nature as Evidence for...

Resurrection Judgment and the Hereafter Lessons on Islamic Doctrine (BOOK THREE) Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari Translated by: Hamid Algar ( 5 ) About the Author Sayyid Mujtaba Musawi Lari is...

Resurrection Judgment and the Hereafter Lessons o...