Question:
Salams to you all
Just wondering -one scholar I was reading said the individuality dies at death (of body), so the body and nafs/psyche dies (along with the memory), but I read another scholar saying that the individuality is what is saved when somebody gains salvation (people of right hand).
Is the first scholar thinking that the salvation/individuality has to be transcended in the post humous states? So he’s just by-passing that in his thinking?
Regarding memory dying, is that true for Saints too, after their body passes?
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
Everything we say of the hereafter has to be from the revealed sources. There is simply no room for speculation or analogy here. And the Qur’an and Sunna are very clear that reward and punishment in the hereafter are for individuals, based on what they did, and moreover that they are to understand that causal relationship at the time of Judgment and after. However, in Paradise, any ill-feeling is removed from the breast of the blissful; while remorse and regret haunts the people of hellfire.
May Allah Most High include us among the people of Paradise with our Master
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and the Throng of the Holy Prophet (upon him and
them blessings and peace).
Hajj Gibril Haddad
