A083
Surah: 003 - Ayah: 083
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3:83
Return is of two kinds: one is in the higher “I”, which has already taken place in the rank of azal and the other is related to the lower “I” which has to be accomplished in this life time, otherwise, the return will not be willingly, but unwillingly (3:83).
For the one who has ill-will for people, due to malice and whose heart is never free from rancour, it is an ethical disease and mental torment and this is the punishment for his bad intention. Contrary to this, the one who has good thoughts for people in the light of religious guidance, is indeed in the paradise of goodwill. Such a person is very fortunate to have good opinions about the Creator and the creatures, as it is implied in the Qur’an that God is He under Whose law of mercy, people are ushered into paradise in two ways: Those who know are ushered in willingly and those who do not know, are ushered in by force (3:83, 23:115). A bright example of this fact is the dacwat or preaching of Islam in which people entered not only willingly, but they were also made Muslims forcibly through jihad. This shows that the way God has willed will ultimately be fulfilled accordingly, when some people will enter among the people of paradise even after being punished in the hell of ignorance. This is the meaning of the cure of many spiritual diseases through goodwill. Praise be to God, the Sustainer of the worlds!
Similarly, every follower of a faith also has a communal and a religious life, and the final and greatest life of all kinds of people is the one towards which they have to return, willingly or unwillingly (3:83), which is such a universal life that in it all the souls of the people found from pre-eternity to post-eternity live as a single soul (31:28). As God says: “Your creation (in pre-eternity) and your resurrection (in post-eternity) are but as one soul (i.e. the Universal Soul)”. That is, all of you are one in the Universal Soul. If you create the eye of certainty in yourself you will see how, despite your being a single drop of soul, you are one in the ocean of the Universal Soul.
This verse has been referred 7 times.