What God has promised in the Holy Quran applies to both the...

What God has promised in the Holy Quran applies to both the paradise of the Hereafter as well as to the paradise of Barzakh.

As soon as the soul gets separated from the body, a good tiding is given, “Enter the Paradise.” All the sins of a martyr in the path of God are pardoned instantly because no deed is greater than martyrdom.[^1] I wish they might see my position When Habib Najjar, the martyr, saw the bounties of God he said, O would that my people had known; Of that on account of which my Lord has forgiven me and made me of the honored ones!

*** *** That is I wish my community, these neglectful people who are drowned deep in material activities and lustful passions should know what God has bestowed me with. How kind and loving behavior Almighty God shows to the faithful after their death. Would that my people knew that my Lord has included me among the rewarded and honored people. The believer uttered this sentence and God quoted his words for you and me so that we may be inspired and we may also adopt the path of the honored ones.

How does God grant honor, status and glories in the Barzakh life? It is also mentioned in narrations that as soon as the soul of a believer departs from his body, angels from the higher world greet him with flowers and lead him to the Divine Throne (Arsh). The one in whose view death is perdition Death is not annihilation or extinction. Why do you consider death an end to everything? Why are you fearful of death? You are a Muslim and you believe in the Holy Quran.

One who does not believe in Quran should fear death as they think that it is perdition or doom. But why should believers fear death? Why do they cry and complain so much at the demise of a near and dear one? Has he become extinct? To think so is disbelief in Quran and traditions. If he is not annihilated then why do they act so and what is all this? This body was like an animal and yet it was riding the one who was running it. It has now become free through death.

In the words of Imam Sadiq (‘a), “There was a bird in a cage. Now the door of the cage has opened and the bird became free.” In other words, it was a pearl in a box. Now it has come out of the box and has begun to glitter and shine. The spiritual world is also in this limitless space but it is hidden from this material world. Of course, it is human nature and relationships demand that when one departs earlier it affects the survivors.