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The Prophet said: Some persons will be taken out of Hell after one thousand years and they will cry O Merciful.' Hearing this Hadis, Hasan Basari said : Alas ! Had. I been one of those persons .' It is in the tradition that the man who will come out last of all from Hell will come out of it after seven thousand years. Some will come out of it like lightning. Some will remain in Hell for seven thousand years. So there are days, weeks, months and years within this period. Punishment will be meted out different times for different persons. There will be also different kinds of punishment as a king metes it out to his subjects. He fines some persons, whips some, confiscates, the properties of some, deports some, beats some, kills the children of some, takes the wives of some as slaves, chopps off"
the nose, hands and feet of some. Similary there will be different kinds of punishment in the next world. The greater the sins, the greater the punishments. There are several kinds of punishement for several kinds of sins. Those who are adapt in soul give proof of the above by the Quranic verses : God says : Your Lord is not an oppressor of His servants. He says : Every soul will be given today what it earned-12 : 286. He says :Man shall have nothing but what he strives for. He s"yas : He shall see even an atom of good he does and he shall see an atom of evil he does 99 : 71 .-

There will be justice and no injustice, but the scale of pardon and forgiveness will be heavy, as the Prophet said that God had said : My compassion overcame My wrath. God says : If you do a

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good deed, God will increase it and give you abundant rewards from Him. It seems that whose establishes his faith firm, keeps away from all major sins, does all the compulsory duties and does not do except minor sins and even these also not repeatedly, his punishment will be confined only within accountings, because when his accounts will be taken, his virtues will be heavier than his sins. There is in Hadis that the prayer for five times, Jumma prayer and the fast of Ramazan expiate the sins committed during the period. Similarly if the major sins are given up, the minor sins are expiated therefore.

DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE FORTUNATE

To enter the highest Paradise or to live near the fortunate one depends upon faith of different kinds. Faith is of two kinds- blind faith of the ordinary people and faith born out of direct inner sight which is gained with the expansion of breast by the help of God's light. By virtue of this faith. The knowledge of everything appears to him and it becomes clear to him that everything will return to God as there is no existence of any thing except that of God. His attributes and His actions. These are they who will live near God and reside in the highest Ferdous.