The Meeting Place

🌼🔆🌼The Ledger of Deeds🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “A Critique of Reincarnation and Karma”  “The Suffering of Matter as a Test”  “Commentary on Supplication 20 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya” “Supplement to the Substitution of the Hereafter”  “Session 231” and … Summary with supplement       1403.08.03    Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903)  🌹🔅

🔅🌼 🔹 Gathering Place  “Meeting with God” 🌼🔅

📅 Date: 1403/08/03 – 20 Rabiʿ al-Thani 1446

✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor

📖 Weekly session on the commentary and interpretation of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication 20)

🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei

📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

### 🌿 The Path to Meeting God 

O God, what ambushes and obstacles have lain along the path to reaching You, holding us back? O God, some strive to conceal this path so that we may forget our meeting with You.

### 🌳 The Hereafter: Meeting God 

The Hereafter means meeting God. One day, every human being, animal, and other creature will meet You—either with radiant faces and dignity, or in humiliation and shame, or in all their grandeur. This meeting will be marked either by perfect servitude or by utter abasement. Those who accept the substitution of the Hereafter seem to have forgotten the meeting with God, for forgetting the Hereafter is tantamount to forgetting one’s meeting with God.

### 🍂 God’s Will in Creation 

If God wills, He brings creation about in whatever form He chooses. Nothing in this world can resist His will. He could transfer the human soul to another body or creature, but He has not willed this. He has the power to transfer a human soul into an animal or even an insect, but He has not chosen to do so. Even in this world, if He wills, He can transform a person in the very place and setting they are in. At times, people are transformed into animals, as happened to the People of the Sabbath, who were turned into apes for disobeying God on the Sabbath.

### 🐒 The Fate of the People of the Sabbath: A Manifestation of Disobedience 

When the People of the Sabbath disregarded God’s command and did what they had been forbidden to do, God said: “Become apes.” It was God’s will that a human being should become an ape without delay. If God wills, He can turn a person into anything—even stone or dust—for nothing can resist His power. Yet God’s will concerning the Hereafter cannot fail.

### 🌏 Reincarnation and the Degradation of Humanity 

Those who believe in reincarnation or something akin to it lower humanity’s station and demean the human being, even though the human being is the Greater and Greatest World. This grandeur points to humanity’s exalted place in the order of creation.

### 🌎 Diminishing the Greater World 

They regard this vast, Greater World as insignificant as a speck of dust.

### 🌀 The Human Journey Through Different Realms 

The human being has passed through different realms: journeying across various worlds, reaching the World of ذر, and from there entering the material world. But those caught up in the substitution of the Hereafter do not know where humanity came from or what its origin is. Had they known the origin, their hearts would have been freed from the bondage of this world and they would have attained reason and reflection. The Hereafter is inevitable.

### 🌱 The Certainty of God’s Promise and the False Belief in Karma 

God certainly does not fail to fulfil His promises. What God has appointed will undoubtedly come to pass. Though those who believe in karma may be deceived by their base beliefs, in the end they will reach that promise beyond all doubt. The Exalted Lord will call them to account. Are those who believe in karma the only ones who deny the Hereafter? 

### 🌾 Forgetting the Hereafter in Everyday Life 

I too have forgotten the Hereafter. I should remember it at every moment, but I do not. If I remembered the Hereafter, I would not be captive to this world. Since I am captive to this world, I have forgotten the Hereafter.

### 🕊 The Certainty of the Resurrection and God’s Truthful Word 

Without doubt, the Resurrection is coming; there is no uncertainty about it. Is there anyone more truthful than God? If God is the most truthful, why do I not believe His word? Why do I not remember the Hereafter and the meeting with God? If I did remember, I would prepare myself—with the refinement, revision and adornment I have yet to undertake.

### ⏳ The Coming of the Hour and Its Certainty 

The Hour of Resurrection will surely come, and there is no doubt about it. Yet most people do not believe.

### 🌻 Human Greatness Rests on What We Believe 

We are as great as our faith. The greater our faith, the greater we become. If we regard ourselves as insignificant and confined to this world, we will become as lowly and small as the world. Despite its injustices, this world is a place of trial—not a place for committing injustice, but for choosing between injustice and mercy. In this world, we are being tested so that we may prove ourselves.

### 🌼 The Contradictions of Karma and the Belief in the Hereafter 

In the belief in karma, poverty and wealth are the consequences of a person’s deeds. The Hereafter, in this view, is the soul’s passage from one body to another. If these passages were to stop, the soul would be left wandering. Yet this belief has no concept of a record of deeds, the scales, Paradise and Hell, or the meeting with God. In the karmic view, everything is confined to this world, and the cycle of life is limited to it alone.

### 🌸 Reincarnation: A Veil Over the Truth of the Hereafter 

The contradictions of reincarnation are, in fact, devised to conceal the truth of the Hereafter. But the Hereafter means everlasting life beyond this world and its limitations. In the karmic view, eternity is defined within the confines of this limited world, and no trial leads to any result. This perspective reduces the universe to the world alone, whereas in the divine perspective, the horizon of human life encompasses all existence—and extends beyond it.

### 🌾 Suffering and Justice in the Divine and Karmic Views 

In the belief in karma, there is no justice, judgment or reckoning. A person afflicted by suffering and calamity is regarded as insignificant and of little worth, as though a victim of their own past deeds. In the divine perspective, however, this very person who suffers may be God’s noblest servant. This fundamental difference between the two views shows that suffering in this world is not the end of the road; it may instead be a trial on the path to perfection.

### 🌱 Worshipping Deeds or Worshipping God? 

In the karmic view, a person worships their own deeds: their deeds are idols to which they submit. In the view of divine oneness, however, a person is God’s servant, not the servant of their own deeds. Every good and bad deed has consequences that appear in different forms, but the way to forgiveness is always open with God. If God wills, He forgives. The karmic universe is dry and lifeless, whereas God extinguishes every fire and turns every ugliness into beauty. He transforms evil deeds into good ones and does not want human beings to be captive to the turning wheel of this world.

### 🌸 The God Who Turns Ugliness into Beauty 

God not only forgives ugliness, but transforms it many times over into beauty, for He is the Lord of immense grace. God loves the pure and those who repent, and turns ugliness into a garden of Paradise. He is «ذوالفضل العظیم», the One who transforms evil deeds into good deeds many times over.

### 🌾 God: Creator of Causes and Effects 

In the belief in karma, a person is trapped by their deeds and becomes their servant. In the view of divine oneness, however, God’s power, knowledge and greatness encompass the human being and their deeds. Both the deed and its consequence depend on God. Everything that happens in the universe—from cause and effect to action and what is acted upon—comes to pass by God’s will. All beings and deeds are subject to His command and will; how much more so our deeds, which all lie within His dominion.

### 🌻 Reincarnation: An Intoxicant That Numbs Belief in the Hereafter 

Reincarnation and karma function like a demonic narcotic, standing in opposition to belief in the Resurrection. In this view, God has no place, and it is unclear whether nature or human action is the real agent. This belief is a fatal distortion of faith in the Resurrection and divine oneness, corrupting a person’s faith. In the theistic view, however, actions do not rule; God alone is sovereign, and His will is the true effective cause.

### 🌑 The softening of sin in the karmic view 

In the karmic view, although a person who suffers is considered sinful, this very belief makes the path to sin easy and smooth. A person tells themselves, “If I don’t make amends this time, I’ll do so in another life.” This belief is like Satan’s lullaby, lulling the human nature to sleep and turning the Resurrection on its head. In truth, it is nothing more than imagination and a personal interpretation of the world’s fallible events.

### 🌍 Returning to one’s actions: two different views 

In the karmic view, a person is compelled to return and witness their actions again and again. In the religious view, by contrast, a person must fulfil their duties properly in this world and, when life ends, enter another world.

### 🪤 Deviant beliefs: a trap for stealing people’s convictions 

These beliefs are like food laid out before the faithful, meant to steal their convictions and lead them away from the truth.

### 💪 God: sovereign over actions and their outcomes 

God is omnipotent, and human actions are powerless before His will. We entrust all our actions to Him, for He knows best what He does.

### 🌧 Suffering: retribution in karma, a test in religion 

In the karmic view, suffering is seen only as retribution for past actions; it has no place as a test or a means of attaining higher degrees. But what goal would a person who had broken free from every restraint attain in this view? There is no answer.

### 🌊 Nature’s vengeance or a divine test? 

In the karmic view, it is as though nature takes revenge on people, trapping them in the ceaseless cycle of worldly life until they attain purity. But purity for what—for an ending, or a beginning?

### 🌅 The Resurrection: a new beginning of servitude in another world 

In the religious view, the Resurrection is not an end but a new beginning of servitude and a passage into another realm of life.

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🔅🌼 Summary, conclusion, and supplement to the discussion of the substitution of the Resurrection🌼🔅

🌹“Reincarnation, transmigration into animal form, and the transmigration of souls” are among the causes and possible alternatives to the Resurrection.

🌹If God wills, creation may unfold in different forms.

🌹If God so wills, creation may unfold in different forms. If the Lord wills to punish and discipline a rebellious person , He may will that, in this very world, the person be transformed while in rebellion.

🌻🔆Al-Baqarah: 65   وَ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمُ الَّذينَ اعْتَدَوْا مِنْكُمْ فِي السَّبْتِ فَقُلْنا لَهُمْ كُونُوا قِرَدَةً خاسِئينَ

🔆You surely know what befell those among you who transgressed and sinned on the Sabbath! We said to them, “Become apes, cast out and despised!”

🌻🔆Al-Aʿrāf: 166   فَلَمَّا عَتَوْا عَنْ ما نُهُوا عَنْهُ قُلْنا لَهُمْ كُونُوا قِرَدَةً خاسِئينَ

🔆When they defiantly persisted in what they had been forbidden, We said to them, “Become apes, cast out and despised!”

🔅🌼 The appointed time of the Resurrection cannot be averted 🌼🔅

🌹The Day of Resurrection is appointed by God and cannot be averted.

🌻🔆Al-Nisāʾ: 87   اللَّهُ لا إِلهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ لَيَجْمَعَنَّكُمْ إِلى‏ يَوْمِ الْقِيامَةِ لا رَيْبَ فيهِ وَ مَنْ أَصْدَقُ مِنَ اللَّهِ حَديثاً

🔆God—there is no deity but Him—will surely gather you all on the Day of Resurrection, about which there is no doubt. And who is more truthful than God?

🌻🔆Ghāfir: 59   إِنَّ السَّاعَةَ لَآتِيَةٌ لا رَيْبَ فيها وَ لكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ

🔆The Hour is surely coming; there is no doubt about it. Yet most people do not believe!

🌻🔆Āl ʿImrān: 9   رَبَّنا إِنَّكَ جامِعُ النَّاسِ لِيَوْمٍ لا رَيْبَ فيهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يُخْلِفُ الْميعادَ

🔆Our Lord, You will surely gather all people on a Day about which there is no doubt. Indeed, God never breaks His promise.

🔅🌼 The Hereafter is the appointed time for the “meeting with God” 🌼🔅

🌹This world is the staging ground for the appointed meeting in the Hereafter.

🌹The Hereafter is the appointed time for the “meeting with God,” and this world is the staging ground for that meeting. Counterfeits of the Hereafter distort the way to, and preparation for, meeting God.

🌹Reincarnation and karma are among Satan’s most effective intoxicants against belief in the Hereafter.

🌹In karmic beliefs, God has no place; nature and human actions are what shape karma.

🌹“Karma” is a sweet yet deadly poison that corrupts pure beliefs.

🌹Karma works to distort the innate belief in the Hereafter.

🌹Karma first targets belief in God’s oneness, then turns to belief in the Hereafter.

🌹Belief in karma makes it easier for people to sin, lulls their conscience, and makes them forget the Hereafter.

🌹Karma is one of the lullabies Iblīs sings to put the innate disposition to sleep

🌹Karma is a counterfeit substitute for the Hereafter, an inversion and imitation of the true Hereafter.

🌹In reality, “karma” is a hypothesis—a personal, philosophical interpretation and imaginative account of events in the universe.

🌹In reincarnationist and karmic belief, human beings are condemned to return so they can witness the consequences of their actions, whereas Islam teaches the opposite.

Karma traps the mind in a cycle of endless repetition,

🌹The karmic view resembles Darwin’s theory: no intelligence stands behind it; it all happens by itself. This theory is served up to those with only a faint glimmer of belief in the Hereafter.

🌹In reincarnationist and karmic belief, there is no discussion of love, friendship, or a relationship with God.🔅🌼 When God is forgotten, knowledge is lost 🌼🔅

🌹When God is forgotten, human awareness and knowledge are lost; understanding is swept into a whirlpool, wisdom takes on the hue of ignorance, the innate disposition falls silent, and Satanic insinuations gain ground.

🌹In the karmic and reincarnationist view, God is forgotten: human actions themselves are said to shape people’s affairs and futures, whereas everything begins and ends with God’s will, and every event occurs only by His will. God alone is the effective agent and sovereign.

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«لا مؤثّر في الوجود إلّا اللّه»🌻🔆

Hūd: 45   … وَ أَنْتَ أَحْكَمُ الْحاكِمينَ

🌻🔆Al-Baqarah: 284   لِلَّهِ ما فِي السَّماواتِ وَ ما فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ إِنْ تُبْدُوا مَا فِي أَنْفُسِكُمْ أَوْ تُخْفُوهُ يُحاسِبْكُمْ بِهِ اللَّهُ فَيَغْفِرُ لِمَنْ يَشاءُ وَ يُعَذِّبُ مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ اللَّهُ عَلى‏ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ قَديرٌ

🔆To God belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. Whether you reveal what is in your hearts or conceal it, God will call you to account for it. He forgives whom He wills and punishes whom He wills. God has power over all things.

🔅🌼 The karmic perspective confuses our understanding 🌼🔅

🌹 In the karmic view, there is no clear discourse on such questions as: Where has the human being come from, where has he come to, why has he come, and where is he going?

🌹 Karma says nothing about the beginning of creation.

🌹 Karma regards suffering as retribution for one’s deeds, whereas suffering may arise from the trials of creation, or serve to raise one’s spiritual rank.

🌹In the karmic belief, it is one’s actions or the cosmos that exacts revenge, and people are condemned to cycle back into earthly life to taste the consequences of their deeds.

🌹In “karma,” there is no room for forgiveness. In this view, the debt for one’s deeds can be settled only through suffering, whereas the Almighty has provided many remedies for every pain.

🌹Unless corrected, the karmic belief leads to disbelief.

🌷🔆 فَقَالَ الْمَأْمُونُ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ فَمَا تَقُولُ فِي الْقَائِلِينَ بِالتَّنَاسُخِ‏ فَقَالَ الرِّضَا ع مَنْ قَالَ بِالتَّنَاسُخِ‏ فَهُوَ كَافِرٌ بِاللَّهِ الْعَظِيمِ مُكَذِّبٌ بِالْجَنَّةِ وَ النَّارِ [1]

🔆Imam al-Ridha (AS) says: “Those who believe in reincarnation disbelieve in Almighty God and deny Paradise and Hell.”

🌹Forgetting God is the chief affliction of karmic belief.

🌹In karma, God is absent in any meaningful sense. Hindus believe that “karma” operates by itself, through one’s actions or through nature—and, God forbid, that the Most High has no part in it.

🌹 In the karmic view, actions themselves or nature administer punishment; remorse, repentance, turning back to God and seeking forgiveness play no part in purifying one’s deeds.

🌹Reincarnation abrogates resurrection, since souls follow the path of reincarnation forever; in that case, there would be no occasion for resurrection.

🔅🌼The relationship between karma and reincarnation 🌼🔅

🌹“Reincarnation” derives from the root “naskh.” Among the word’s lexical meanings are transformation, transfer, and the succession of two phenomena, one replacing the other.

🌹In jurisprudence and legal theory, “naskh” means that one ruling in the Sharia is superseded by another. In theology, “reincarnation” means that the soul passes from one body to another.

🔅🌼Why wrongdoing and injustice arise in creation🌼🔅

🌹The possibility of wrongdoing and evil is inherent in a life of trial.

🌹A world created without trial would be meaningless.

🌹In the Karmic belief, every suffering, affliction, pain and poverty is the result of one’s deeds, and there is no place for a test of servitude.

🌹The Karmic resurrection is a cycling through bodies; there is no mention of the book of deeds, no reckoning, no scales, no paradise and no hell .

🌹In the Karmic belief, beyond this world nothing has any colour for them; the cycling must take place in this very world.

🔅🌼Ignorant judgement is forbidden 🌼🔅

🌹If the test were removed from creation, life would seem meaningless, empty and unjust .

🌹The place of the test in creation answers many of the questions and riddles of creation and fills man with encouragement at the beauty and grandeur of creation and with hope for the future.

🌻🔆البقرة : 155   وَ لَنَبْلُوَنَّكُمْ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الْخَوْفِ وَ الْجُوعِ وَ نَقْصٍ مِنَ الْأَمْوالِ وَ الْأَنْفُسِ وَ الثَّمَراتِ وَ بَشِّرِ الصَّابِرينَ

🔆We shall surely test you with something of fear, hunger, and loss of wealth, lives and fruits; and give glad tidings to those who are steadfast!

🔅🌼Suffering in creation has levels🌼🔅

🌷🔆وَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص‏ إِنَ‏ الْبَلَاءَ لِلظَّالِمِ‏ أدبا [أَدَبٌ‏] وَ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ امتحانا [امْتِحَانٌ‏] وَ لِلْأَنْبِيَاءِ دَرَجَةٌ وَ لِلْأَوْلِيَاءِ كَرَامَة[2]

🔆Affliction is for disciplining the wrongdoer and awakening him; for the believer it is a test; for the prophets it is a rank; and for the intimates of God, an honour.

🌹Often a person is held captive by the suffering of the dearest one on earth; often a person is held captive by pain and suffering and affliction as a champion in the race of God’s servitude, but not for all human beings.

🌷🔆عَنِ الْكَاظِمِ ع قَالَ‏ لَنْ تَكُونُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ حَتَّى تَعُدُّوا الْبَلَاءَ نِعْمَةً وَ الرَّخَاءَ مُصِيبَةً وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ الصَّبْرَ عِنْدَ الْبَلَاءِ أَعْظَمُ مِنَ الْغَفْلَةِ عِنْدَ الرَّخَاءِ[3]

🔆You will never be a believer until you count affliction a blessing and ease and comfort a misfortune. And this is because patience in affliction is better than heedlessness in ease.

🌷🔆عَنِ الْبَاقِرِ ع قَالَ‏ إِنَّمَا يُبْتَلَى الْمُؤْمِنُ فِي الدُّنْيَا عَلَى قَدْرِ دِينِهِ أَوْ قَالَ عَلَى حَسَبِ دِينِهِ‏[4]

🔆Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) said: A believer in this world is afflicted in proportion to his religiosity. Or he said: in accordance with his religiosity.

🔅🌼Often suffering is a cause of attention and awareness🌼🔅

🌷🔆قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص‏ لَا تَكُونُ مُؤْمِناً حَتَّى تَعُدَّ الْبَلَاءَ نِعْمَةً وَ الرَّخَاءَ مِحْنَةً لِأَنَّ بَلَاءَ الدُّنْيَا نِعْمَةٌ فِي الْآخِرَةِ وَ رَخَاءَ الدُّنْيَا مِحْنَةٌ فِي الْآخِرَة[5]

🔆The Prophet of God (peace and blessings be upon him and his family): You are not a believer until you count affliction a blessing and ease a hardship; for the affliction of this world is the blessing of the next, and the comfort of this world is the suffering of the next.

🔅🌼The burden of trial and the contest of champions is heavy 🌼🔅

🌷🔆عَنْ سَدِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع‏]  قَالَ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ إِذَا أَحَبَّ عَبْداً [غَتَّهُ بِالْبَلَاءِ غَتّاً وَ ثَجَّهُ بِهِ عَلَيْهِ ثَجّاً]  فَإِذَا دَعَاهُ قَالَ لَبَّيْكَ عَبْدِي لَبَّيْكَ لَئِنْ‏ عَجَّلْتُ مَا سَأَلْتَ إِنِّي عَلَى ذَلِكَ لَقَادِرٌ وَ لَئِنْ أَخَّرْتُ فَمَا ادَّخَرْتُ‏  لَكَ عِنْدِي خَيْرٌ لَكَ‏ . [6]

🔆Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) said: Whenever God, the Exalted, loves a servant,He plunges him into affliction and pours down upon his head a rain of trials, and when he calls upon God in supplication, God says: O My servant, I have heard your prayer; if I wished to grant your requestswiftly, I have the power to do so, but I am storing it up for you, and what I store up for you is better.

🌹The world is not a bed of pleasure; it is a field of contest and trial. The absence of pleasures for some in this world is not to be taken as deprivation of pleasure; the time and place of pleasure differ.

🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: إِنَّ لِلَّهِ عِبَاداً فِي الْأَرْضِ مِنْ خَالِصِ عِبَادِهِ لَيْسَ يَنْزِلُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ تُحْفَةٌ لِلدُّنْيَا إِلَّا صَرَفَهَا عَنْهُمْ إِلَى غَيْرِهِمْ وَ لَا يَنْزِلُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ بَلَاءٌ لِلْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا صَرَفَهُ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ هُمْ شِيعَةُ عَلِيٍّ وَ أَهْلُ بَيْتِهِ‏.[7]

🌷🔆 عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَجْلَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ لِلَّهِ فِي خَلْقِهِ عِبَاداً مَا مِنْ بَلِيَّةٍ تَنْزِلُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ وَ لَا تَقْتِيرٍ مِنْ رِزْقٍ إِلَّا صَرَفَهُ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ لَا عَافِيَةٍ وَ لَا سَعَةٍ فِي رِزْقٍ إِلَّا صَرَفَهُ عَنْهُمْ [وَ] لَوْ أَنَّ نُورَ أَحَدِهِمْ قُسِمَ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعاً لَاكْتَفَوْا بِه‏[8]

🌷🔆 عَنِ الرِّضَا ع قَالَ: الْمَرَضُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ تَطْهِيرٌ وَ رَحْمَةٌ وَ لِلْكَافِرِ تَعْذِيبٌ وَ لَعْنَةٌ وَ إِنَّ الْمَرَضَ لَا يَزَالُ بِالْمُؤْمِنِ حَتَّى لَا يَكُونَ عَلَيْهِ ذَنْبٌ.[9]

🔆 Illness is purification and mercy for the believer, and torment and curse for the disbeliever. Illness remains the companion of the believer until no sin remains upon him.

🌹Various views have arisen within transmigrationist beliefs, among them “unlimited or absolute transmigration,” “limited descending transmigration,” and “ascending transmigration.”

🌹In  the theory of “the unlimited or absolute transmigration of the soul,” all human beings, at all times, are continually passing from one body to another, and for this passage there is no limitation with respect to individuals or with respect to time; that is, the souls of all human beings at all times, at the moment of death, undergo a passage from one body to another, and if there is a Hereafter at all, it is nothing other than a return to this world, and in this very manner.

🌹In the theory of  “limited descending transmigration,” those human beings who, in knowledge and action, and in theoretical and practical wisdom, stand at a higher level, do not return to this world again at the moment of death, but join the world of immaterial and separated beings (separated from matter and its effects), and there is no reason for their return to this world.

🌹But those who are at a lower level in both theoretical and practical wisdom, whose souls are not mirrors of intelligible truths and who have not fully succeeded in purifying themselves of vices, return to this world to complete their development in both domains, theoretical and practical. They remain here until they attain perfection in both respects, and then join the realm of light.

🌹The theory of “ascending transmigration” rests on two principles: Among all bodies, plants are more receptive and better equipped to receive the gift of life. The human constitution is better suited than plants to receive a higher form of life: a life that has already passed through the plant and animal stages.

🌹To preserve these two principles—the greater receptivity of plants and the greater worthiness of human beings—the divine effusion, namely life and the soul, first enters a plant. After its evolutionary course brings it close to the animal level, it appears in the date palm. It then enters the animal realm and, having developed to the level of the ape, passes in a leap into a human being, where it continues its upward journey until it rises from the lowest level to perfection.

🔅🌼 Replacing the Hereafter with Transmigration 🌼🔅

🌹Eternity is not subject to the limits of the finite!

🌹In the karmic view, in reality, eternity’s rule over the finite is the rule of this world: eternity is imprisoned in this world. There is no trial, nor any reckoning of its outcome.

🌹In the karmic view, the wheel of existence turns around this world; there is no mention of justice, judgment, or decree.

🔅🌼 A Slave to One’s Deeds 🌼🔅

🌹A human being is God’s servant, not a slave to their deeds

🌹Although we know that everyone who does good will receive the reward and outcome of their deeds, it does not followthat the consequences of one’s deeds must be receivedin this very world, or that evil deeds cannot be forgiven or transformed.

🌹IIf Almighty God wills, every action has a corresponding reaction; yet God Almighty often, if He so wills, extinguishes the fire that bears the mark of a person’s deeds.

🌹Those who believe in karma have hanged themselves with their own deeds.

🔅🌼 Deeds Are Subordinate to God 🌼🔅

🌹God Almighty has shown us a way out from the consequences of our deeds. His power and will encompass our deeds and their outcomes; deeds and their consequences are subject and obedient to God’s will.

🌹Karma, is cold, dry, and frozen; in this worldview, life has no purity or vitality.

🌹If repentance from sin is sincere, God can turn ugliness into a garden of paradise.

🌷🔆يَا نَافِذَ الْعِدَةِ، يَا وَافِيَ الْقَوْلِ، يَا مُبَدِّلَ السَّيِّئَاتِ بِأَضْعَافِهَا مِنَ الْحَسَنَاتِ إِنَّكَ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ.

🔅🌼 The Reckoner Is Also the Forgiver 🌼🔅

🌹A cause-and-effect relationship between deeds and their outcomes exists only by God’s will.

🌹Those who seek to reconcile karma with the foundations of Islam are not merely ignorant; they are misguided.

🌹God will reckon even the weight of a speck, yet everything remains in the hands of His will.

🌹God Almighty displays His power, knowledge, wisdom, gentleness, and justice, while at the same time showing that reward and punishment are in His hands,

🌻🔆Al-Zalzalah: 7   فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْراً يَرَهُ

🔆Whoever does an atom’s weight of good will see it.

🌻🔆Al-Zalzalah: 8   وَ مَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ

🔆And whoever does an atom’s weight of evil will see it!

🌻🔆Al-Ma’idah: 64   وَ قالَتِ الْيَهُودُ يَدُ اللَّهِ مَغْلُولَةٌ غُلَّتْ أَيْديهِمْ وَ لُعِنُوا بِما قالُوا بَلْ يَداهُ مَبْسُوطَتانِ يُنْفِقُ كَيْفَ يَشاءُ وَ لَيَزيدَنَّ كَثيراً مِنْهُمْ ما أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ رَبِّكَ طُغْياناً وَ كُفْراً وَ أَلْقَيْنا بَيْنَهُمُ الْعَداوَةَ وَ الْبَغْضاءَ إِلى‏ يَوْمِ الْقِيامَةِ كُلَّما أَوْقَدُوا ناراً لِلْحَرْبِ أَطْفَأَهَا اللَّهُ وَ يَسْعَوْنَ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَساداً وَ اللَّهُ لا يُحِبُّ الْمُفْسِدينَ

🔆The Jews said, “God’s hand is chained.” May their hands be chained, and may they be cursed for what they said! No: His hands are outstretched; He gives as He wills. Yet what has been sent down to you from your Lord will surely increase many of them in rebellion and disbelief. We have set enmity and hatred among them until the Day of Resurrection. Whenever they kindle the fire of war, God puts it out. They strive to spread corruption throughout the land, and God does not love those who spread corruption..

🔅🌼 Every deed is forgiven by the All-Forgiving through sincere repentance.🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Zumar: 53   قُلْ يا عِبادِيَ الَّذينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلى‏ أَنْفُسِهِمْ لا تَقْنَطُوا مِنْ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَميعاً إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحيمُ

🔆Say, “O My servants who have transgressed against themselves, do not despair of God’s mercy. God forgives all sins; He is indeed the All-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.

🔅🌼 Only associating partners with God is unforgivable.🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Nisa’: 48   إِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يَغْفِرُ أَنْ يُشْرَكَ بِهِ وَ يَغْفِرُ ما دُونَ ذلِكَ لِمَنْ يَشاءُ وَ مَنْ يُشْرِكْ بِاللَّهِ فَقَدِ افْتَرى‏ إِثْماً عَظيماً

 🔆God does not forgive associating partners with Him, but He forgives anything less than that for whomever He wills and deems worthy. Whoever associates a partner with God has committed a grave sin.

🔅🌼 Those who believe in reincarnation and karma are guilty of associating partners with God.🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Nisa’: 116   إِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يَغْفِرُ أَنْ يُشْرَكَ بِهِ وَ يَغْفِرُ ما دُونَ ذلِكَ لِمَنْ يَشاءُ وَ مَنْ يُشْرِكْ بِاللَّهِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلالاً بَعيداً

🔆God does not forgive associating partners with Him, but He forgives anything less than that for whomever He wills and deems worthy. Whoever sets up a rival to God has strayed far into error.

🔅🌼 God, Blessed and Exalted, nurtures, multiplies, and adorns deeds.🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Nahl: 97   مَنْ عَمِلَ صالِحاً مِنْ ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُنْثى‏ وَ هُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ فَلَنُحْيِيَنَّهُ حَياةً طَيِّبَةً وَ لَنَجْزِيَنَّهُمْ أَجْرَهُمْ بِأَحْسَنِ ما كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

🔆Whoever does what is right, whether man or woman, and is a believer, We shall grant them a good life and reward them according to the best of what they used to do.

🔅🌼 No deed, however small or great, lies beyond God’s knowledge.🌼🔅

🌻🔆Luqman: 16   Or بُنَيَّ إِنَّها إِنْ تَكُ مِثْقالَ حَبَّةٍ مِنْ خَرْدَلٍ فَتَكُنْ في‏ صَخْرَةٍ أَوْ فِي السَّماواتِ أَوْ فِي الْأَرْضِ يَأْتِ بِهَا اللَّهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَطيفٌ خَبيرٌ

🔆“My dear son, if a deed, good or evil, were to weigh no more than a mustard seed, and were hidden inside a rock or anywhere in the heavens or the earth, God would bring it forth. God is Subtle, All-Aware!”

🔅🌼 The Most Great God is the cultivator of good deeds.🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Nisāʾ: 40   إِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يَظْلِمُ مِثْقالَ ذَرَّةٍ وَ إِنْ تَكُ حَسَنَةً يُضاعِفْها وَ يُؤْتِ مِنْ لَدُنْهُ أَجْراً عَظيماً

🔆God does not wrong anyone, even by as much as an atom’s weight. And if there is a good deed, He multiplies it and, from His own grace, grants a great reward for it.

🔅🌼 If God were to hold people to account for their deeds, no one would be safe 🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Naḥl: 61   وَ لَوْ يُؤاخِذُ اللَّهُ النَّاسَ بِظُلْمِهِمْ ما تَرَكَ عَلَيْها مِنْ دَابَّةٍ وَ لكِنْ يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ إِلى‏ أَجَلٍ مُسَمًّى فَإِذا جاءَ أَجَلُهُمْ لا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ ساعَةً وَ لا يَسْتَقْدِمُونَ

🔆If God were to punish people for their wrongdoing, He would not leave a single living creature on earth. But He grants them respite until an appointed time. When their term comes, they can neither delay it by an hour nor bring it forward.

🔅🌼 🌼🔅

🌻🔆Fāṭir: 45   وَ لَوْ يُؤاخِذُ اللَّهُ النَّاسَ بِما كَسَبُوا ما تَرَكَ عَلى‏ ظَهْرِها مِنْ دَابَّةٍ وَ لكِنْ يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ إِلى‏ أَجَلٍ مُسَمًّى فَإِذا جاءَ أَجَلُهُمْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ كانَ بِعِبادِهِ بَصيراً

🔆If God were to punish people for what they have done, He would not leave a single living creature on earth. But in His grace, He delays their reckoning until an appointed time, giving them the chance to make amends. When their term comes, God will requite each person according to their deeds. He sees His servants and knows all their actions and intentions.

🔅🌼 We are servants of God, the All-Powerful, the Doer, the Ruler, the Judge and the All-Forgiving 🌼🔅

 🌹Deeds do not act or rule; God is the Doer, the Ruler and the Judge!

🌹Worshipping deeds is a form of idolatry. Do not pin your hopes on your good deeds; seek refuge in God from your evil deeds.

🔅🌼 God owns the heavens and the earth, all deeds and every created thing 🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Fatḥ: 14   وَ لِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ يَغْفِرُ لِمَنْ يَشاءُ وَ يُعَذِّبُ مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ كانَ اللَّهُ غَفُوراً رَحيماً

🔆Sovereignty over the heavens and the earth belongs to God. He forgives whom He wills, and punishes whom He wills. God is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

🔅🌼 A warning 🌼🔅

🌹How many believers have forfeited their eternal life in the Hereafter by believing in reincarnation.

🌹Reincarnation is a deadly poison to belief in the Hereafter, in reckoning, the record of deeds and the scales.

🌹Reincarnation and karma are distorted versions of belief in the Resurrection, engineered by devils.

🌹Believers of weak conviction are stripped of their faith by reincarnationist beliefs.

🌹In the worldview of karma, even divine unity is called into question; belief in God’s oneness is undermined before belief in the Resurrection.

🌹The influence of devils’ suggestive waves in strengthening belief in reincarnation, and their insinuations about it, is unmistakable.

🔅🌼 God determines what is opened and closed 🌼🔅

🌹God, Blessed and Exalted, is the One who opens and closes. Nothing can thwart God. Belief in karma spins a web-like cage around people and traps them inside it.

🌹He is not called to account for what He does. The power of His will and mercy is bound by nothing. Forgetting God is the worst constraint in “karmic” beliefs.

🌹There is no problem for which God has only one solution. The Most High acts as He wills and resolves matters however He chooses.

🔅🌼 Reincarnation is the killer of eternal intention 🌼🔅

🌹Karma and reincarnation are distinct concepts, each with various interpretations; there is no unity of thought in the foundations of this school.

🌹Every school of thought—whether grounded in intellectual, religious or doctrinal beliefs—adapts reincarnation and karma to its own principles in order to legitimize, justify and reinforce them.

🌹Karma is a poison, one of three dangerous toxins that destroy pure belief. It stands against tawhid, prophethood, divine justice and the attributes of mercy. Despite its beguiling appearance, it is deadly to the human innate nature.

🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼

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