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Meaad is one of the most important aspects of Faith that has been mentioned in the
Traditions many times over. In fact, one who doesn’t believe in Meaad and believe that
on the Day of Judgement men will not be raised in their earthly bodies is an infidel.
Interpreting the verses of the Quran that the reward and retribution will only be for the
spirits and the bodies would not be raised for the purpose is infidelity. One must believe
that on Doomsday there will be a great upheaval. The mountains would shatter into
smithereens. The dust of the bodies of the dead would be reassembled into full with
Allah’s Orders. The spirit would enter every individual’s body and then the accounting of
the deeds would take place!
The other aspects of Qiyamat, viz, the Bridge of Sirat, Meezan (the Balance of Justice )
will follow and the deeds would be measured. According to the Promise made by Allah,
evryone shall pass through all the steps to be judged deserving of the Heaven or the Hell.
In the Heaven there will be Houris, Ghilmaan, canals of sweet honey and milk, garden
with fruits. The Hell for the evil will have fire, snakes, vermin, thorny trees and boiling
hot water. One MUST believe that all these are true and DEFINITE to happen to every
human being and the jinns.
ABOUT THE SPIRITS OF THE MOMINS
-THE PIOUS
One night, Hibba e Arabi, went with Hazrat Ali (a.s.) to to the graveyard of Wadi as
Salam near Al Najaf. Hazrat Ali (a.s.) stood there as if in conversation with someone.
Hibba Araby got tired standing there for long. He sat several times and got up. When he
could bear the delay no further, he told to Hazrat Ali (a.s.), “ You must be tired. Take
some rest!”
Hazrat Ali (a.s.) said, “ I have love for the Momins! Let me talk with them!”
He asked, “ O Amir al Momineen (a.s.)! In what conditions are they?”
Hazrat Ali (a.s.) said, “ They are sitting happily in groups!”
He asked, “ Are their bodies here too! “
Hazrat Ali (a.s) replied, “ No! Only the spirits are there. Wheresoever a Momin expires,
his spirit comes here!”
• It is narrated that a person said to Imam Jafar e Sadiq (a.s.), O Hazrat! It is said that
the spirits of momins keep flying near the Firmament in the shape of green colored
birds!” The Imam (a.s.) replied, “ It isn’t true! The spirit of a momin is not such a