A021
Surah: 009 - Ayah: 021
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9:21
As a proof of the possibility of man reaching the higher survival, this command of the Universal Soul is enough: “O the son of Adam! Obey me, I will make you like Myself: alive that you will never die, mighty that you will never be humiliated and self-sufficient that you will never be needy”. This is the place of the Universal Soul, but God Himself, may He be purified, transcends any similitude and like.
This highest position of the permanent survival will be lasting bliss (9:21) for the righteous and their survival will be merged with the survival of the Universal Soul without any difference. They will realise that, for a while, they were in the sleep of negligence of the particular life from which they have now woken up. They are sure that no time has elapsed from them, because they are now at a place that transcends time, a non-temporal and non-spatial world in which time and space are not required in order to comprehend and observe a thing. Everything there follows the will. As God says: “Nay, verily the record of the righteous is in the higher world (Illiyyun), and what made you understand what the higher world is? A written record, at which the nearest (to God) are present” (83:18-21). This verse means that the records of deeds of the righteous are collectively in the higher world, namely the Universal Soul, which transcends time and space.
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