notifications_active Weekly Meshkat-e Noor Session: Thursdays at 20:30 at Haj Reza Mosque
Master, how is it possible for someone to live in the next world while still being alive in this one? Does this also have to do with the soul and its emanations? Are worldly attachments what keep a person bound to life? If so, wouldn’t that make life in this world meaningless?
By mastering their inner faculties and focusing on the different physical and spiritual dimensions of their being, people can be present in different realms and live in this world and beyond it at the same time. The time and space of this world are governed by higher realms, and the human being’s material dimension is itself a reflection of their higher dimensions.
Just as a person can use the different senses separately or together, so too can they be present in different realms!
The human self, endowed by the incomparable Creator with extraordinary power and capacity, can govern its diverse faculties—its multiple spirits, intellect and its forces, heart, various senses, limbs and organs, and more—and, by harmonizing, aligning and unifying them, bring them all together as a single, focused power.
By turning their attention to what lies around them, people direct their spirit towards different places.
The vast human form has different earthly, heavenly, malakutī and jabarutī layers. Through each of these layers, a person can perceive its particular realms and be present within them!
Those whose jabarutī, malakutī and heavenly layers have departed will have no awareness of them at all!
Al-Hajj 22:46: أ فلم یسیروا فی الأرض فتکون لهم قلوب یعقلون بها أو آذان یسمعون بها فإنها لا تعمى الأبصار و لکن تعمى القلوب التی فی الصدور
Have they not travelled through the land, so that they might have hearts with which to understand, or ears with which to hear? For it is not the eyes that grow blind, but the hearts within the breasts.
The realm of this world is encompassed by the realms above it. The time and space of this world, too, are under the dominion and sovereignty of the possibility and time of the higher realms!
This realm is a descending form of the realms above it; the material aspect of the human being, too, is a descending form of their higher dimensions!
Al-Sajdah 32:5: یدبر الأمر من السماء إلى الأرض ثم یعرج إلیه فی یوم کان مقداره ألف سنه مما تعدون
He directs the affairs of the world from heaven to earth; then they ascend to Him on a day whose measure is a thousand years by your reckoning (and the world comes to an end).
Al-Hijr 15:21: و إن من شیء إلا عندنا خزائنه و ما ننزله إلا بقدر معلوم
There is nothing whose treasuries are not with Us, and We send it down only in a measure known.
The human being is the servant of God, of whom it is said:
Fussilat 41:54: ...إنه بکل شیء محیط
…Indeed, God encompasses all things!
If a person is truly God’s servant, they will surely attain the highest experiences of servitude to Him!
He knows.