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This court has certain particularities:LESSON THREE: AN EXAMPLE OF THE TRIAL OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT IS WITHIN YOU

A human being is tried in several courts for the sins that he or she commits.

The first Court is that very normal one of humanity, including all of its deficiencies and ineffectiveness.

Even if the existence of this normal court has a striking effect in the reducing of the punishment, but the basis of this court is such that it never can be expected that complete justice be given.

The reason for this is that if incorrect laws and unrighteous judges find their way into them, the result is obvious — bribery, collusion, special relations, political games and thousands of other problems to make it so ineffective that it must be said its nonexistence is better than its being because its existence allows for the evil goals of the interested parties.

If its laws are just and its judges are aware and with piety, there are still many things which can cause the ineffectiveness because they are very skilled at hiding themselves.

Or else so fix the file and pages in the court that the hands of the judge are tied and the law is then made effective.

The second court, which is more precise and exact, is the Court of Retribution of Deeds.

Our deeds have an effect which, over a short period of time, or in the long run, will take hold of us. Even though this may not be a general rule, it is true for most people.

We have seen political rules which are based oppression; they did whatever they wanted to do, but, finally they fell into that very trap which they had made for themselves. The reaction to their deeds took hold of them. They were destroyed and only curses remain for them.

Because the retribution for deeds is the very relation between cause and effect and objective-subjective ties, there are few people who can flee from it by trying to cover over their deeds.

The only ineffectiveness of this court is that it is not universal, complete and common to all and because of this, it does not make us needless of the Great Judgment of the Resurrection.

The third court which is more precise and exact is the court of the conscience.

In truth, just as the constellations and the planets have such a wondrous sense of order, on a much smaller scale, it is summarized in the heart of an atom, we can say that the Court of Judgment also has a small model in our inner being.

Within the being of the human being, there is a mystery which the philosophers call the ‘practical intellects the Holy Quran calls the ‘nafs lawwamah’, the reproaching soul and today we interpret as meaning the conscience.

Just as good or evil deeds may be performed by a human being, this court is quickly called to order, without any commotion, but very serious and based in principle.

It begins the trial and the results of the trial are in the form of punishments or rewards which are psychological.

Sometimes they so punish the criminal with a whip and torture his spirit that he openly welcomes death and he prefers it to life. He writes in his will, “I have attempted suicide to be freed from the pressure of my conscience.”

Sometimes, before a good deed, a person is so encouraged that he or she senses a greater degree of calm and peace within the self, a peace which is indescribable and cannot be expressed in any words.

 

 

 

 

 

This court has certain particularities:LESSON THREE: AN EXAMPLE OF THE TRIAL OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT IS WITHIN YOU
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