The world to come
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
al-ākhirah · al-ʻālam al-ukhrawī · the abiding abode · the abode of permanence · the hereafter · the last · the next
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Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The hereafter, the horizon that makes the science of character the noblest of the sciences.
and man's utmost degree in felicity, and his highest rank in pleasure and joy in this world and the next, is that he should win through to knowledge of the Necessary Existent and of what proceeds from Him in the order in which it exists.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The permanent world after death, with its gates, obstacles and gardens.
and upon his family and his companions, who held to his course and so were made happy in the first world and in the last.
It belongs to wretchedness in the present life that a man should strive with earnestness and exertion after a certificate (shahādah) that will bring him to an immediate post, or to a rank that raises his standing among his associates, joining night to day and spending himself utterly in it, and yet not strive after the testimony by which he passes the obstacles of the abiding abode and in virtue o …
for this world is nothing but a copy and a small extract of the world to come.