In a detailed hadīth narrated by the Shaykh ash-Shahīd...

In a detailed hadīth narrated by the Shaykh ash-Shahīd ath-Thānī (may Allah be pleased with him) in Munyat al-Murīd quoting Fātimah as-Siddīqah (' a ), who, quoting the Messenger of Allah ( s ), said: “The Messenger of Allah ( s ) said: “The scholars of our followers will be resurrected wearing coats of honor according to their knowledge and to their efficiency in guiding the servants of Allah, such that some of them are given thousands of coats of light.” Then he added: “Some of those gifts are better than the best thing on which the sun may shine, by thousands of times”.[^5] So much for its blessings.

As to its punishments, Fayd (may Allah have mercy upon him), in ' Ilm al-Yaqīn , has quoted a hadīth from the late as-Sadūq, on his authority, quoting Imām as-Sādiq (' a ) who said that in a hadīth Gabriel said to the Messenger of Allah ( s ): “If a single link of the chain, whose length is seventy cubits, is placed on the world, the world will melt by its heat.

Or if a drop of the Zaqqūm and Darī' (repulsive stinking drink) is dropped into the waters of this world, the people will die of its bad smell.”[^6] We take refuge with Allah from the wrath of ar - Rahmān .

Therefore, the traveler to Allah has to replace his bad characters and evil habits with the perfect ones, and to vanish them in the stormy and endless sea of Allah's perfect attributes, and to change the dark Satanic land of (his) nature [ tabī'at ] to a white and bright land, and to find out in himself: “ And the earth shines with the light of its Lord,” [^7] and to bring about the state of the names of Beauty and Majesty of the Holy Essence in the kingdom of his existence.

In this state he will be under the shelter of Beauty and Majesty, and will acquire the divine moralities; and the vices of “personal individuations” [ ta'ayyunāt - i nafsiyyah ] and the darkness of fancy will be completely concealed.

Having attained this state, he will be favored with the special care of Allah, the Most High, Who will help him with His special secret protection (kindness) [ lutf ], and conceal him under the cover of His Majesty such that no one, except Himself will know him, and he will know none but Allah: “My friends are under My qibāb (domes); no one knows them except Me.”[^8] The sacred Book of Allah has many references to this point for those worthy of it, such as: “ Allah is the Protector of those who believe.