Aslam

A physician thinks that a certain patient will die and no medicine will bring his cure. He thinks of another patient who will be cured. But it is seen that the former patient has recovered and the latter has died. This is the mystery of God and outside the scope of the knowledge of man. The salvation and success in the next world is just like that. They have got secret causes outside human knowledge. For this reason, we should forgive the guilty and not express anger on the virtuous. God says : God does dot opress anybody-21 Q. 47. He says: God does not oppress anybody to the extent even of an atom. He says : Man does not earrj anything except by his efforts. His efforts will be considered-53 : 38. He says : Everybody is responsible for his action-6 : 115. He says : when they were misguided. He closed their minds. He says : When they changed their conditions, God changed their condition. God says : God does not change the condition of a people till they change their own condition. These verses are clear to those who are adapt in the knowledge of soul just as a person sees anything with his eyes. Eyes in some cases commit mistakes, as they see near what lies distant and see little what is big. But the eye of heart or soul cannot commit mistake.
To this effect, the Quran says : The heart has not taken as false what it has seen-53 : 1 1 .

Person who get salvation-Salvation means security without fourtune or success. Those who got salvation did not do divine service and they did not get reward although they were secure of punishment. They are like boys among the infidels or deranged of brain. They are like those persons who did not receive invitation to accept Islam and lived in unknown places. They have no knowledge of God and no actions of religion. They have

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got such sin as can keep them away from God. They are neither the inmates or Paradise nor of Hell. They will remain in a place between Paradise and Hell called A'raf or elevated place.

Rewarded persons-They are not blind believers but are

cognisant of God with deep insight. They are the near ones and

will get rewards beyond description. God says : Nobody knows

what consoling rewards to the eyes are reserved for them. The

Prophet said that God says : I have prepared for My righteous

servants such reward as no eyes has seen, no ear has heard and no

heart of a man has conceived .' The matter of enquiry of the Arefs or

gnostics is to get that condition which no other man in the world can

appreciate. They don't want palaces, beauriful dansels, milk,

honey, wine, ornaments of paradise but they desire for Divine sight

the less of which they will not be satisfied. This is the end of fortune

and taste. Hazrat Rabia was asked : What is desirable in Paradise ?

She said : To get Neighbour and then a house. These persons are

engrossed in the love of the Master of the house and not of its