Assalamu alaikum huzoor, mera yeh swaal hai ke jab hum mar jaayen aur uske baad phir zinda hoon. Allah na gare. Haan. Haan. Uske baad phir zinda hoon aur phir jo koi hota hai wo booda mara ho ya kisi ke jo kamar wo neeche ho ya koi baby ho ya koi bimaar ho jab mare to phir usi tarah phir zinda hoga aur usi tarah rahega. Thank you so much for helping me. The fact is that we maintain, Ahmadis, that when you are given a new life after death it is not the same physical body which is revived.
Because if the same physical body is revived as others, other Maulvis would have us believe then this is the biggest objection. A kana would be raised a kana, that is one eyed person would be raised a one eyed person and a person without eyes would be raised without eyes. A person without a leg or one who is paralysed in the body would be raised as a paralysed person. An old hag would be raised as an old hag, you see. So what a shocking concept of heaven or hell. You know, what is hell to, what does heaven mean to an old hag who is suffering from bone aches and things, you know, she can hardly move a finger without crying and she would be raised exactly in the same way and go to heaven. What for? To suffer? Observing people enjoying heaven? It’s meaningless.
And we prove that Hazrat Rasool-e-Karim never understood heaven to be something like this. Or people to be raised in their physical bodies as they were found at the time of death. On the contrary, we find this very interesting anecdote, I mean, very interesting incident. Once a very old lady visited Hazrat Rasool-e-Karim and asked him whether she would go to heaven or not. And Hazrat Rasool-e-Karim smilingly retorted, no old woman would be found in heaven. And she wailed and she protested and she cried like anything, oh poor me, I wasted my time, wish I were dead, you know, that’s the type of thing.
She wailed and wailed on. Then Hazrat Rasool-e-Karim smiled and said, no, no old lady, you will be reborn young. That was the message. So the Holy Quran positively dictates, I mean, there’s no time for quoting those verses, but the Holy Quran very positively, categorically dictates that your, the shape in which you will be reborn is something of which you can never conceive. It’s not the same form. The Holy Quran tells us, tabdila is the word used, that you will be changed so drastically that as if you are completely a different thing.
So when the Holy Quran categorically says that, and it’s logical as well, and it agrees with the traditions of the Holy Prophet as well, why should we insist that the same body would be raised with the same, you say, hunchback and broken knees and things? Yes, but I wanted to ask you something else, that if in some other way, what do you call it, the same way as the one who died, then the one who committed the crime, will he feel the same pain as if he were injured? No, no, maybe much more intense. You know, the feeling you have is of two types. One, you have a physical pain, and sometimes you have an agony and you can’t place where you feel it and how you feel it. And sometimes the agony is so strong that you wish you had a physical pain and not that agony.
If a woman has lost her very dear only child, she doesn’t suffer physically, there’s no pain anywhere in the body, but the agony is so intense sometimes that she would give up her life, she would sacrifice anything for the sake of a revival of that son. So what is that agony and where is it felt, can you imagine? Sometimes you have lost a pound or two and you feel some agony.
If you are miserly, you feel a bit more agony, and if you are generous, well, still you feel a pinch here and there. But where is it felt? How it is felt? Can you describe? Is it hot or cold or, you know, like pinprick or like what? So the same soul, which is here, would be there and it would feel the agony as Allah pleases.
