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Dear teacher, could you please explain the characteristics of these two realms? I mean, what signs should we look for to distinguish between them, so that—God forbid—we are not deceived by Satan?
The Nasut realm
The Lahut realm
Thank you.
Just as the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household guide people in this world, divine light and guidance are also present in the higher realms, where the human being is guided toward their angelic and dominical nature. Truly knowing the proofs of God and advancing through the stages of servitude enable one to experience the higher realms, whose effects then manifest of their own accord.
Just as the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household are guides and divine proofs for God’s servants in this world, and by holding fast to them a person leaves the path of error and comes to know truth and reality, so too—given that the earth is never without a divine proof—in the higher realms every servant of God will be accompanied by divine light and guidance and will never be left to their own devices.
In this world, a person discovers the right path through their innate nature, affirmed by God’s messengers. In the higher realms, too, they will be set upon the path of truth and reality through their celestial and transcendent nature, affirmed by the divine proofs.
When a person truly knows the divine proofs in this world, follows the path they have laid down, completes the full course of this world’s teachings, and reaches the ultimate triumph of attaining every rank of servitude, they will be granted the grace to enter, perceive and receive the wonders of the higher realms. There, they will be guided with care along their way. When a person is blessed with becoming a guest in the highest realms, their effects will manifest from within them of their own accord, without any conscious effort on their part.