A060
Surah: 056 - Ayah: 060
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56:60
The sense in which the Imam is the Straight Path (sirat-l mustaqim). He is also a wide and strong bridge between corporeality and spirituality or the physical world and the spiritual world. As the two ends of the bridge, Imam has two aspects of humanity and angelicity. With respect to humanity, he is a human being and with respect to angelicity he ls an angel. The Beneficent Lord has made this bridge with the purpose that the people should pass through this bridge and become angels, as is said in the verse (56:60-61): "We have decreed among you death and We shall not be outstripped that We may change your likes (amthala-kum) and create you in a fashion you know not."
Here is alluded the death of animal soul and Inbiath and ibda, as a result of which man passes through the bridge of Imamat and becomes an angel.
Amthal (Parables, likes, transformation of likes)
Those who had become revived after dying, had come to know that after death the real life is only in the subtle body, because the present body is not created for paradise. It is suitable only for this worldly life, as it is alluded in verses (56:60-61): "And We are not to be frustrated from changing your likes (amthal) and creating you in a form you do not know." That is, after death you are going to receive the subtle body which you do not know at all.
This verse has been referred 3 times.