Fruit of Paradise - Suratu'l-Humazah (104)

Suratu'l-Humazah (104)

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

Woe to every slanderer, traducer, who amasses wealth and compounds it:
He thinks that his wealth will render him immortal.
Nay, verily, he shall be thrown into hutamah.
Ah, what makes you know what hutamah is:
(It is) the fire of Allah, kindled, which will leap up over the hearts.
Indeed, it will close upon them, in outstretched columns.

Ta'wili wisdom:
There is spiritual perdition for anyone who, due to their ignorance and inner blindness, slanders and traduces the true Guide. "He has gathered some wealth" means that he has acquired a little literal and exoteric knowledge, which is very little, but thinks it is abundant. He believes this limited knowledge is limitless and because of this becomes arrogant. He thinks this little knowledge will always prove useful. "Nay, he will be thrown into the Crusher" means in the personal world of the Da`i, in which there are particles in gradation, where there is light as well as fire, knowledge as well as ignorance. The greatest punishment is intellectual, in which the fire of ignorance burns the heart. Thus they will be surrounded by 19 pillars (74:30), for as it is said: "And above it (Hell) are nineteen. And We have appointed only angels to be keepers of Hell, and their number We have made only as a trial for unbelievers, that those who were given the Book may have certainty, and that those who believe may increase in belief." (74:30-31).

The above-mentioned angels are:

The 7 Lords of the major cycles plus their 12 Hujjats of Jazirah, making 19 in total.
The 7 Imams of the minor cycles plus their 12 Hujjats of Jazirah, making 19 in total. (See Wajh-i Din, Guftar, 14).

A key wisdom about how particles of souls are attached to the hudud-i din, is in verse (36:41) which says: "And a sign for them is that We carried their dhurriyat, (i.e. their soul's particles), in the laden ship, and We have created for them the like of it whereupon they ride." (36:41-42). This verse shows that the particles of all souls were borne in the Ark of Hazrat Nuh. This ark is always made of spirituality and is always created from the spirituality of the true Imam and his hudud, to which people are attached either consciously or unconsciously.

Reflect well on this Qur'anic logic which is that all things are surrounded by Divine treasures and that nothing is excluded from them (15:21). Would one then expect Paradise and Hell to be somewhere outside His kingdom? The more orderly a country, the better developed its jail. Although jail is bad for criminals, it is necessary for the reformation of society and it therefore has to be within the country and not outside it.

Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai,
25th November, 1984.

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