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Paradise and Hell are the Embodiment of Our Deeds - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Paradise and Hell are the Embodiment of Our Deeds 2022-09-22 527 Views Paradise , Hellfire , Rewards , Punishment Many people ask themselves, “Is the world after death similar to this world? Or does it have differences?” Its rewards, its punishments, and, finally, the laws and system which rule it, are they like this world?

In response, it must be clearly stated that: We have much evidence in hand which show that this world and that world are very different from each other so that whatever we know in this world is like a mirage that we see from a distance. It is best if we explain it with the example of the fetus — like the difference which exists between the world of the fetus and this world, the separation between this world and the next exists, or it is greater.

If a child who lives in the world of the fetus had intelligence and wished to have a correct image of the external world, heaven and earth, the sun and moon and stars, the mountains and jungles and seas, most certainly, it could not. For a child who lives in the world of the fetus and who has seen nothing but the small world within its mother’s womb, concepts of the moon and sun and seas and waves and thunder storms and breezes and flowers and the beauties of this world would not exist.

All of its vocabularies are summarized in a few words. And if someone outside of its mother’s womb could speak with it, it would never be able to understand its language. The limitations of this world with the extensiveness of another world are this much or more. Thus, we do not have nor will we ever have the power neither to know about the blessings of another world nor to know what Paradise is.

Thus, we read in a tradition (hadith), “There are blessings in heaven which no eyes have seen, no ears have heard and have entered no one’s brains.” The Holy Qur’an expresses this same idea in different words: “Now no person knows what delights of the eye are kept hidden (in reserve) for them — as a reward for their good Deeds.” (1) The powers and systems ruling that world also have great differences from this world.

For instance, in the trial of the Day of Judgment, the witnesses for the deeds of a human being will be his or her hands and feet, skin and body and even the earth upon which sin or a good deed was performed will bear witness.