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Resurrection, (Ma'ad)

Author: Sayyid Madjid Ali Da'ee Nejad
Translator: Sayyid Mehdi Mohammadi
Publisher: Neh'zat-e Tardjomeh Iran
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• Foreword
• Introduction
• Notes
• Chapter 1: Death or the beginning of the journey to eternity
• The essence of death
• The transfer made by divine agents
• God's creature
• The great sleep
• The Importance of contemplating about death
• The agony of death and its cause
• Notes
• Chapter 2
• The Holy Qur'an and purgatorial life
• The supplication of the damned to return
• What have you been doing?
• The world, purgatory, and resurrection
• Two deaths, two lives
• Eternity, until heaven and earth shall subsist
• Fire, each morning and each evening
• The state of purgatory
• The realm of the forms
• The grave’s questioning
• The pressure of the grave
• To account for one's deeds and misdeeds
• Companionship of the souls of the believers
• The connection between the world and purgatory
• The opening of one’s book of deeds
• One’s inner perception of the purgatory
• The possibility of returning to earth
• Notes
• Chapter 3
• The great Resurrection: The dawn of a new life
• The difference between Judgment day and purgatory
• The preparations for judgment day
• Various names of Judgment day
• The first blow of the celestial horn or the new life
• The duration of the Judgment day
• The relationship between the world and Judgment day
• The appearance of the angels
• The embodiment and ever-lasting effects of actions and deeds
• The similarities and differences between the two worlds
• Similarities
• The differences
• Stability and change
• The pure and impure life
• Planting and harvesting
• Unshared destinies
• The laws of means and fates
• The diminishing and/or intensification of the inner perception
• The attachment and boredom of the heart
• The ways by which Allah calls mankind to account
• Notes
• Chapter 4
• The Holy Qur'an’s arguments on Resurrection Day
• The logical reason for the existence of the divine power
• The arguments of similarity
• The necessary divine arguments
• The argument and the proof for the existence of divine justice
• A- The true meaning of divine Justice
• B- Aptitudes beyond this world
• Injustice and deprivation of man from his capabilities
• The argument which shows Allah’s infinite wisdom
• A- Disability and incompetence
• B- Natural annulment and essential imperfection
• C- The existence of obstacles
• Resurrection and Allah’s infinite wisdom
• The true meaning and interpretation of divine wisdom
• The talent for enjoying immortality
• The absence of the Resurrection Day, thus the vainness of divine creation
• Notes
• Chapter 5: Heaven and Hell
• The human typology from the Holy Qur'an’s point of view
• Notes
• The standard for being a blessed soul or a damned soul
• Heaven [or Paradise]
• The spiritual and physical heaven
• The heaven of “Riz'wan”
• The pure and heavenly drink
• The heavenly gates
• The characteristics of paradise
• Purity and pureness
• The divine safety and security
• Health and well-being
• Constancy and eternity
• The inexistence of prohibitions and limitations
• The divine mercy, favor, and grace
• Spiritual bounties
• Physical and material bounties
• Heavenly food and drinks
• Heavenly spouses
• Spectacular sights and wonders
• Heavenly garments and ornaments
• Affectionate and sweet relationships
• Hell
• The various names of Hell
• Hell's doors
• Hell is on the lookout…
• The uniqueness of man, his deeds and his punishment
• Different kinds of Torments
• The mental Torments
• The spiritual Torments
• Loneliness and utter solitude
• The physical torments
• To be chained and bound together in fetters
• To be thrown in hell fire
• A chain with a length of seventy cubits
• To wander [round]
• The Garment of Fire
• The food of the Damned
• The duration of the torment
• Notes
• Chapter 6: Uncertainty and questions
• The time of the Resurrection Day
• Physical and spiritual Resurrection
• Some equivocal thoughts to be considered
• The secret of insisting on the blessing of the physical form
• The negation of God's blessings, appearing as bad things
• Absence of any limitation for all the pleasures, awaiting man in the afterlife
• Punishment, according to the deed
• Why is it so?
• A good deed accomplished by a Non-Muslim
• Intercession and Justice
• Contrast between Mercy and Torment
• Tiredness and frustration
• Notes