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The Masnavi
Bayazid and the Saint (91-100)
The faithful will say on the last day, "O King! Was not Hell on the route all of us traveled? Did not faithful as well as infidels pass through it? Yet on our way we perceived not the smoke of the fire; Nay, it seemed Paradise and the mansion of the blessed." Then the King will answer, "That green garden, As it appeared to you on your passage through it, Was indeed Hell and the place of dread torment; Since you have labored to make hellish lusts, And the 'fire of pride that courts destruction,
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 27: Of the Last Judgment, of the Resurrection of the Dead, and of the Eternal Life. The most horrible Gate of the Wicked, and the joyful Gate of the Godly. (17)
Here will the Prince and Arch-Shepherd pronounce his Sentence, saying to the kGodly;i Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom that has...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul. (27)
There is nothing that is nearer you than Heaven, Paradise, and Hell, unto which of them you are inclined, and to which of them you rend [or walk,] to...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (11)
Every sinner thus carries with him into the world beyond death the instruments of his own punishment; and the Koran says truly, "Verily you shall see...
Forty Hadith Qudsi
Hadith Collection (39)
On the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Paradise and Hell-fire disputed together, and Hell-fire said: In me…
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (15)
This species of hell (i.e., of shame) may be symbolised by the following short parable: Suppose a certain king has been celebrating his son's...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (96)
Then the Devil mocked the Image, and Hell opened its The Soul. Jaws wide, and had the Bridle in their Essences, and continually drew them therewith...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (1)
As regards the joys of heaven and the pains of hell which will follow this life, all believers in the Koran and the Traditions are sufficiently...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XIV (2)
Those who were going round were far the more, And those were less who lay down to their torment, But had their tongues more loosed to lamentation....
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (14)
We have seen above that one kind of spiritual hell is the forcible separation from worldly things to which the heart cleaves too fondly. Many carry...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (121)
O Beauty, Pleasure, and Voluptuousness of this World! O Riches, and proud Statelyness! O Might and Power! Thy unrighteous Judgment and great Pomp,...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (7)
Some Sufis have had the unseen world of heaven and hell revealed to them when in a state of death-like trance. On their recovering consciousness...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul. (22)
As also all Words (both the evil and the good) which were here spoken by a human Tongue, they continue standing in the Shadow and figured Similitude,...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XVI (1)
Darkness of hell, and of a night deprived Of every planet under a poor sky, As much as may be tenebrous with cloud, Ne'er made unto my sight so thick...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (168)
O thou lying Devil, stay but a little, the Spirit will discover thy Shame to thee; tarry but a little while longer, and thy Pomp, Pride, and...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (20)
Many of the former class, having no fixed convictions about the future world, when mastered by their sensual appetites, deny it altogether. They say...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto X (1)
Now onward goes, along a narrow path Between the torments and the city wall, My Master, and I follow at his back. "O power supreme, that through...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto VIII (4)
They were." And he to me: "The fire eternal That kindles them within makes them look red, As thou beholdest in this nether Hell." Then we arrived...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (34)
Surely the Gate will be locked upon thee, and so thou wilt not enter in any more, but wilt dance with the Hellish Wolves in the hellish Fire; truly...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXVII (6)
O miserable me! how I did shudder When he seized on me, saying: 'Peradventure Thou didst not think that I was a logician!' He bore me unto Minos, who...
Forty Hadith Qudsi
Hadith Collection (38)
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: When Allah created Paradise and Hell-fire, He sent Gabriel to Paradise, saying: Look at it and at what I have prepared therein for its inhabitants…
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