“That Day shall We set a seal on their mouths their hands...

“That Day shall We set a seal on their mouths their hands will speak to Us and their feet bear witness to all that they did.” (2) Also, “They, will say to their skins: ‘Why do you bear witness against us?’ They will say, ‘God has given us speech — (He) Who gives a speech to everything: He created you for the first time and unto Him were you to return,” (3) Of course, one day conceptualizing this was extremely difficult but with examples gained from the progress of science, there is no longer room for amazement.

At any rate, even though we only know the benefits of the next world as a mirage and even though we cannot come to know the extensiveness and importance and particulars of the Hereafter, we know this much that the blessings of the world, as well as its punishments, are both physical and spiritual because the Resurrection contains both aspects, and, naturally, its rewards and punishments must have both aspects.

“And give glad tidings to those who believed and did good deeds that for them are gardens underneath which rivers shall flow.

Wherever they are provided with fruit from there as a provision, they shall say, ‘This is what we had been provided with before and shall be brought of its similarities and there, for them, are purified mates; and they are therein forever.” (4) “God has promised to believers, men and women, gardens under which rivers shall flow to dwell therein and beautiful mansions in gardens of everlasting bliss.

But the greatest bliss is the good pleasure of God: that is the supreme felicity.“ (5) Those who are to go to Paradise because God is satisfied with them, and their Creator has accepted them, are so happy and full of pleasure which is incomparable to anything else. As to those who are going to go to Hell, in addition to the fire and harsh physical punishments, the anger of the Creator is awaiting them, and that is greater than any kind of torture.

Embodiment of Deeds It is worth noting that many verses of the Holy Qur’an can be used to show that at the Resurrection, our deeds will be enlivened and will be present for us in various ways and one of the important areas of rewards and punishments is this very embodiment of deeds.