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Testimony by the Most Veracious of Witnesses
From: "jagbir singh" <www.adishakti.org@gmail.com>
Date:
Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:50 am
Subject: Testimony by the Most Veracious of
Witnesses (that Muslims are unaware of)
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> —- In
shriadishakti@yahoogroups.com,
alex arthur <dude11976@y...>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > 4. Now, i did complain last time that i got a sever
> > and indescribably terrifying catch when i met fellow
> > sahaj yogis at a doctors place some time after
mothers
> > 81st birthday puja. Even then, i dont think i have
> > missed one single day of meditation...my faith in
the
> > lord almighty/mother is (i hope) firm. I'm coming to
> > the point now...as regards shri mataji, i have felt
> > the vibrations, ok. I have felt the kundalini at the
> > crown of my head, like something moving on my scalp,
> > ok. I have felt a cool breeze coming down from the
> > top, on my head, and further down over my shoulders
> > too i think, ok.
—- In
shriadishakti@yahoogroups.com,
"jagbir singh"
<adishakti_org@y...> wrote:
>
> Alex, you are experiencing just what hundreds of
thousands of SYs
> are also feeling on a 24/7 basis. Vibrations are the
Mystical Wind
> that the Bible proclaims will be proof of those born
of the Spirit.
>
>
https://adishakti.org/prophecies/prophecy_6.htm
>
> Vibrations are also the Wind of Qiyamah that the
Qur'n proclaims
> will be one of the Sure Signs that the Resurrection
has begun.
>
>
https://adishakti.org/prophecies/prophecy_11.htm
>
Alex,
The Divine Cool Breeze that you feel issuing forth from
various parts
of your physical body will one day give testimony for or
against you,
and vibrations are the most veracious of witness. Be
careful of your
daily conduct on Earth for the rest of your life because
it is
definitely the promised Resurrection!
jagbir
Testimony by the Most Veracious of Witnesses
The Noble Qur'n makes it clear that the testimony given
by sinners
in the court of divine justice will be utterly unique in
nature,
bearing absolutely no similarity to the juridical
procedures of this
world.
The verses of the Qur'n that speak of the giving of
testimony on the
day of resurrection proclaim that the hands, feet and
even the skin
of the sinners will disclose the hidden sins that they
committed
during their lives and that were previously unknown to
all but God;
the sinner will stand revealed, to his utter dismay and
terror. The
animation of these witnesses and the testimony they will
bear to the
events that have happened in the world show that all the
deeds we
perform are recorded both in the external world and in
the various
organs and limbs of our bodies. When the conditions of
this world are
replaced by those of the hereafter, on the day when, as
the Qur'n
puts it, "secrets are made manifest and none will be
able to conceal
anything or seek help from anyone." (86:9-10) all the
deeds that have
been recorded will pour forth and begin to bear witness.
We can indeed observe in this world a pale and feeble
example of what
is meant by things acquiring speech.
A doctor, for example, understands the language of the
body. The rate
of the pulse may indicate fever, and yellowness of the
eye proclaims
the presence of jaundice. To give another example, we
can tell the
age of a tree from the circles within its trunk.
It is nonetheless true that we cannot know the exact
modality of the
testimony that will be given in the hereafter. However,
once the veil
is lifted from men's sight, their power of vision will
increase and
their level of perception will be raised. They will
embark on a new
life with enhanced means of perception and will see many
things that
surrounded them in this world although they were unaware
of them.
Thus the Qur'n says:
"You were in a state of negligence; now We have lifted
the veil from
you so that your sight is today keen." (50:22).
Other verses speak of the multiplicity of the witnesses
that will
come forward:
"Let them fear a day on which their tongues, their hands
and their
feet shall bear testimony against them." (24:24).
"A day on which all the enemies of God will be drawn
into the fire as
they stand next to their destined abode, their ears,
their eyes and
the skin on their bodies shall testify to the sins they
have
committed. They will address their limbs in
astonishment, saying,
'How do you testify concerning our deeds' They will
answer, 'God who
gave speech to all creatures has also given us speech.
First He
created you, and now He brings you back to Him. You
concealed your
ugly deeds not in order that your ears, eyes and skins
should not
give witness today, but because you imagined God unaware
of what you
hid from other men. It is this groundless assumption
that has brought
about your perdition, for today you are in the ranks of
the losers."
(41:19-23).
This verse stresses that man is unable, in the last
resort, to
conceal the sins he has committed with his limbs. This
is not because
he under estimates his bodily form, which in the end
turns out to
have been a means for recording his deeds, but because
he imagines
that things are essentially autonomous and that much of
what he has
done will be beyond the reach of God's knowledge. It is
this
unawareness of the fact that nothing in creation is
hidden to God
that casts men into the pit of eternal wretchedness.
The Qur'n further proclaims:
"Today We place the seal of silence on the mouths of the
unbelievers
and transgressors. Their hands shall speak to us, and
their feet
shall bear witness to what they have done." (36:65).
Imam al-Sadiq, upon whom be peace, said the following in
clarification of this matter:
"When men are gathered together before God on the day of
resurrection, everyone will be given the record of his
deeds. When
they see the list of their crimes and their sins, they
will begin to
deny them and they will refuse to confess. Then the
angels will bear
witness to those sins having occurred, but still the
sinners will
swear that they have done none of the deeds of which
they are
accused. This is referred to in the verse, 'On the day
when God shall
resurrect them all and they will swear lyingly to God as
they once
swore lyingly to you' (58:18). It is then that God will
place a seal
on their tongues and cause their bodies to begin
speaking about what
they have done." (Tafsir al-Qummi, p. 552)
Irrefutable witness
Even more remarkable is the fact that the deeds man has
performed
will themselves take shape before his astonished eyes.
This must
definitely be regarded as the most veracious form of
testimony
possible; it closes off before the offender any defense,
deception or
flight from chastisement, and strips him of denial and
sophistry. No
crime remain unproven, and the sinners will be overtaken
by shame and
humiliation.
The Qur'n says:
"On the day of resurrection they will find whatever they
have done
confronting them." (18:49).
Or again:
"There will be a day on which everyone who has done a
good deed will
find it confronting him, and those who have done evil
will wish that
it were kept far distant from them. God warns you
against His
punishment for He is in truth compassionate toward His
servants"
(3:30).
Since it is impossible for deeds to disappear in the
hereafter, the
most that sinners can hope for is that a distance be
maintained
between them and their deeds, a clear expression of
their disgust
with what they them selves have done.
In addition to all the forgoing, and still more
important than it,
God describes Himself as the witness to all the deeds of
men:
"Why do they not believe in the signs of God? He is a
witness to all
that you do." (3:98).
The Qur'n also mentions the prophets and those who have
drawn close
to God as witnesses to man's deeds:
"The earth will shine with the light of its Lord. The
record of men's
deeds will be brought forth and the prophets and the
martyrs shall be
summoned to bear witness and judge among men so that
none shall be
wronged." (39:69).
It should be borne in mind that such witness and
testimony will not
be restricted to the outer aspect of men's deeds. What
is meant is
rather testimony to the quality of deeds with respect to
their good
or their evil, and whether they represented obedience or
sin: in
short, the inner aspect of deeds.
The giving of witness on the day of resurrection is a
sign of honor
and respect for those who are called upon, but it also
indicates that
while in this world they had a certain awareness of
men's inner
beings, that they were able to observe them just like
their outer
beings and thus to record their deeds with precision and
inerrancy.
It is obvious that conventional knowledge and sense
perception are
quite inadequate for testimony of this kind; it depends
on a more
profound mode of awareness that is able to embrace the
inner
dimensions of man, an awareness that transcends our
normal capacities
and permits an unfailing distinction to be made between
the pure and
the impure.
Such testimony is based upon a clear vision of reality,
and as such
it is infallible.
The Qur'n says:
"Tell men that whatever they do God will display to them
whatever
they do, and the Messenger and the believers are aware
of it. Then
they shall return to God Who knows the hidden and the
manifest, so
that they will be requited for their good and their
evil." (9:105).
According to commentaries on the Qur'n, what is meant
here by "the
believers" is the Inerrant Imams from the Household of
the Prophet,
peace and blessings be upon him and his family. They are
distinguished from other Godfearing people by the
special grace and
favor they have received from in that they are both
inwardly pure and
have been utterly purified by God. It is for this reason
that the
giving of testimony in the hereafter has not been
vouchsafed to all
men of piety.
Imam al-Baqir, peace be upon him, said in a certain
tradition:
"No group or class of men can bear witness to the deeds
of men except
the Inerrant Imams and the prophets of God. The
generality of the
community has not been described by God as witnesses,
because in this
world there are people whose testimony cannot be trusted
even for a
handful of grass." (Tafsir al-Mizan, Vol. I, p. 332)
* * * * *
All the deeds of men have a profound effect on their
beings. If
someone knows that injustice and crime are sinful but
nonetheless
engages in them at the behest of his instinctual nature,
a
contradiction will arise in his inner being that will
burn and
torment him profoundly. But is it not he who has created
this
contradiction?
If envy gnaws away at a man's inner being, is anyone
responsible
apart from himself?
Imam al-Sadiq, upon whom be peace, said:
"Sin cuts more deeply than a knife." (Bihar al-Anwar,
Vol. LXXIII, p.
358)
All of our words and deeds are stored in the vast and
mysterious
archive of our body and our soul, and they will be
brought forth in
the tribunal of resurrection. The totality of our acts,
good and bad,
are stored up within us and will ultimately take shape
to confront us.
The reckoning of men's deeds that will take place in the
hereafter
will, then, be utterly unique. No one may hope to
obfuscate the truth
or to deny the contents of the precise record that is
laid before
him. Everyone will be compelled to accept the truth and
to submit to
its consequences. The hands, the feet and the skin will
be called on
to give witness; God from Whose knowledge not at single
atom in the
heavens and earth is hidden and Who is aware of the
falling of leaf
from a tree, will also be a witness; and the prophets
and the Imams
will bear their witness to whatever we have wrought.
It is obvious that it is impossible for us now to
understand and
perceive fully all these dimensions of the inevitable
reckoning that
will follow resurrection.
http://www.al-islam.org/Resurrect/r18.htm
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