Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

any meaning that exists on its own. The figures, the shapes being
here are all appearances which are reflected from the other
’âlams. There is not a figure or a shape in a mirror. When a figure
appears in a mirror, this appearance comes from some other
place. So is the case with the ’âlam-i-mithâl. When this is realized
well, we say that the soul also was in its own ’âlam before getting
attached to the body. The ’âlam-i arwâh is higher than the ’âlami
mithâl. When the soul is attached to the body it falls in love with
the body and descends into this material ’âlam. It is not related
with the ’âlam-i mithâl. As the soul has no relation with the ’âlami
mithâl before it gets attached to the body, likewise it has no
relation with that ’âlam after the cessation of its attachment to the
body. Only, at times when Allâhu ta’âlâ chooses,, some states of
the soul are seen in the mirror of that ’âlam. This helps
understand if the states of the soul are good or bad. Kashfs and
dreams happen in this manner. Another event which has
happened many times is that man has seen the figures in the
’âlam-i mithâl without losing his senses. When the soul parts from
the body it goes up if it is high. If it is low it gets down. There is
no connection between it and the ’âlam-i mithâl. The ’âlam-i
mithâl is an ’âlam in sight. It is not an ’âlam of beings. There are
two ’âlams of beings: The ’âlam-i arwâh and the ’âlam-i ajsâd. In
other words, the ’âlam of souls and the ’âlam of matter are the
’âlams of beings. Things being in these are not only appearances.
They themselves exist, too. But there is no being in the ’âlam-i
mithâl. Only, it is like a mirror for the beings in the ’âlam-i arwâh
and the ’âlam-i ajsâd. When dreaming, the sorrows, the pains, the
troubles in the ’âlam-i mithâl are seen. This is (a state of) seeing
the appearance, in the ’âlam-i mithâl, the torment deserved by the
one who sees it. It is shown to him in order to wake him up from
unawareness so that he will pull himself together.
Torment in the grave is not seeing the visions in the ’âlam-i
mithâl when dreaming. Torment in the grave is unlike dreams.
Torment in the grave is not the appearing of torment. It is the
torment itself. Moreover, even if it should be said that the pain,
the torment which is seen when dreaming is the torment itself, it
is still like worldly torment. But the torment in the grave is one of
the torments of the next world. These two are unlike each other.
For, worldly torment is nothing when compared with torment in
the next world. May Allâhu ta’âlâ protect us against that torment!
If a spark of the torment in the next world came to the world, it
would burn, annihilate everything. To think that torment in the
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