The Soul It is obligatory to believe in the soul. It is a subtle body; no one knows its reality except Allah. Allah Made the norm that life is sustained in the bodies of angels, humans, jinn and animals as long as that subtle body is with them, and life will depart them if it departed those bodies. It is…
The Intercession The Intercession is true. It is to ask for the good from another for another; and so the Prophet and the practicing scholars and the martyrs and the angels will intercede. Our Prophet will intercede for the major sinners of his nation, and it came in the authentic hadith, شَفَاعَتِي لأَهْلِ الكبَائرِ مِن أمَّتي [which means] “My intercession…
The Description of Hell Hell is true. It is obligatory to believe in it and that it is presently created, as is understood by the verses of the Qur’an and the authentic hadith. It is a place Allah has Prepared for the torture of the blasphemers that never ceases, and it is also prepared for some of the sinful Muslims….
The Description of Paradise Paradise is true. It is obligatory to believe in it and that it is presently created, just as is understood from the Qur’an and the authentic hadith. It is presently above the seventh sky and not connected to it. Its ceiling is the ^Arsh of Ar-Rahman. Its people have the appearance of their father Adam, sixty…
The Basin The Basin is true. It is a place in which Allah has Prepared a drink for the people of Paradise; they drink from it before entering Paradise and after passing the Bridge. For our Prophet there is a Basin to which his nation comes exclusively; no other nation will come to it. Its length is a walking distance…
The Bridge The Bridge is true. It is a wide, extended bridge over Hell. All of the creations will come to it. Among them are those who will come to it and enter Hell, and those are the blasphemers and some of the sinful Muslims; they slip from the Bridge and fall into Hell. Also among them [the creations] are…
Reward and Punishment Reward, according to the people of truth, is not a right of the obedient that is obligatory on Allah, it is only Generosity from Him. It is the compensation by which Allah Compensates the believer with what pleases him in the Hereafter. The torture also is not obligatory on Allah to inflict upon the sinners; it is…
The Questioning of Allah It is the presentation of the slave’s deeds to them by Allah Speaking to the slaves in their entirety. They will understand from the Speech of Allah the Questioning about what they did with the endowments that Allah Gave them. So the pious believer will be pleased, and the blasphemer will not be pleased, because he…
The Resurrection The Resurrection is true. It is the exiting of the dead from the graves after the reconstruction of their bodies that had been eaten by the soil, if they were among the bodies eaten by the soil. Those are the bodies of other than the Prophets, the martyrs of the battlefield, and some of the Waliyys, because of…
Belief in the Torture of the Grave and its Enjoyment and Questioning Allah the Exalted Said, ﴿النَّارُ يُعْرَضُونَ عَلَيْهَا غُدُوًّا وَعَشِيًّا وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ أَدْخِلُوا آلَ فِرْعَوْنَ أَشَدَّ الْعَذَابِ﴾ [which means] “Hell will be presented to them morning and evening, and on the day when the Hour takes place, insert the aristocracy of Pharaoh into the most severe torture.” Allah…