Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi, in his final lesson of ethics for the year, spoke about the life we live in and its relation to the hereafter.<\/p>\n
His eminence stated: \u201cWhen the question is raised of how it is possible to lengthen one\u2019s life, God answers by stating the lengthening of life for a person is possible by the individual striving towards making the life of this world insignificant and valueless, and, in contrast to this, the life of the hereafter \u00a0valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n
He mentioned longing for an eternal life as an innate desire. He said: \u201cMan has been created in such a way that he pursues his pleasures; therefore, it is not a weakness to wish for a long life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The highly respected scholar stated: \u201cNo one can claim that they are not in the pursuit of any type of pleasure, if such a claimant is found, know that there is something wrong with them. In the pursuit for super natural powers, the Indian ascetics go through a lot of suffering but even that is because they are after the pleasure found in the result.\u201d<\/p>\n
Explaining the verse \u2018\u2026<\/i>each one of them wishes He could be given a life of a thousand years: But the grant of such life will not save him from (due) punishment.<\/span><\/i>\u2019 (Surah Baqarah: 96), the respected commentator of the Quran said: \u201cThe reason why desiring a long life is frowned upon in the Quran is because some people do not understand that life in this world is like a small toy, and by entertaining themselves in this world, they become oblivious to the real life.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnswering the polytheists who desired a life of a thousand years, God stated that even if you reach such an age, you would still not be free from the divine punishment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Quoting the verse: \u2018Say, “O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are allies of Allah, excluding the [other] people, then wish for death, if you should be truthful.”<\/span><\/i>\u2019 (Surah Jum\u2019a: 6), his eminence said: \u201c<\/span>In this verse God addresses the Jews and states that if you speak the truth about being the lovers of God, then desire death. The Quran does not state: become a lover of death and commit suicide, rather, it says perfection is in this that you understand true life and know that: \u2018this worldly life is not but diversion and amusement. And indeed, the home of the Hereafter – that is the [eternal] life<\/span>\u2026<\/i>\u2019 (Surah Ankabut: 64)\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Source: Wilayah News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi, in his final lesson of ethics for the year, spoke about the life we live in and its relation to the hereafter. His eminence stated: \u201cWhen the question is raised of how it is possible to lengthen one\u2019s life, God answers by stating the lengthening of life for a person is possible …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[980,394,981,162,983,982,163],"class_list":["post-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-scientists-news","tag-ayatollah-misbah-yazdi","tag-death","tag-ethics","tag-headline","tag-hereafter","tag-life","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9585,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions\/9585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}