Such individuals are blessed with absolute felicities unlike...

Such individuals are blessed with absolute felicities unlike those found in this life (dunyā), as it is impossible for such manifestations to be apparent in this life due to the limitation of this world. Two parts characterize the third special feature of the next life. This is in order to divide the tyrants and oppressors from the righteous and upright. The distinction reached by the individual results from their actions carried out in this life. These two divisions are Heaven and Hell.

The fourth attribute is derived from the argument for justice, whereby the next life must be so comprehensive that millions of individuals acquire their reward or punishment according to every specific action that they have performed. For example if an individual killed many people then the possibility for his punishment must exist in the next life. In contrast if a person saves many lives then that world must have the potential to reward.

Many features an be derived from the argument for justice, including the presumption that the next life must be based on recompense (jazā) as opposed to responsibility and duty (taklīf). The explanation for understanding the above point is that this world is composed of opposite forces, or actions and reactions where man’s desire arrives at a point at which he has to decide between two alternatives.

This is the very factor, which makes him responsible or places him in the realm of action (taklīf), and these situations will last until the end of his life. Subsequent to this, Divine Wisdom and Justice are expedient of precisely rewarding or punishing the specific individual for fulfilling the responsibility or carrying out the duty or action.

At this time if it is assumed that the Hereafter necessitates responsibility or duty then it is necessary for God to leave the individual free to determine their path. Thereupon there has to be another world for rewarding or punishing them depending upon their actions performed. In reality the world assumed to be the next life is another entirely different world, which is the final abode free from the test of obligation, (meaning that it must not contradict our desires).

Hence, this world is the place of action and duty where man has to choose and endure tests, as compared to the next life where he will receive the fruits of his deeds, in an everlasting realm.