Belief in the Hereafter exercises an analogous bénéficient effect on all other classses, great or small, and illumines each member of them. The ears of sociologists and moralists who concern themselves with social life should now be ringing! If one deduces the remainder of the many thousand of benefits that are to be had from belief in the Hereafter from the five or six examples we have alluded to, then it will be still more clearly established that the cause of happiness in both worlds and both lives is this belief and nothing else.
Since the feeble doubts that occur to man With respect to the corporeality of resurrection have received powerful answers in the Twenty-Eighth Word and other sections of the Risale-i Nur, here we will make only the following brief reference to the subject.
The most comprehensive mirror of the Divine Names lies in софотеality, and the most complex and active locus of the Divine purpose inherent in the creation of the universe lies in corporeality. The most varied and multifarious of God's dominical bounties are to be found in corporeality; and the most numerous seeds of man's prayer and thanks to his Creator, expressed with the tongue of need, have also been sown in corporeality. Then too, the most varied seeds of the inner and spiritual worlds have been placed in corporeality.
It is because these and hundreds of similar universal trulhs have been concentrated İn corporeality that the Wise Creator has, with swift and awesome activity, clothed unceasing caravans of beings in bodies, in order to multiply corporeality on the face of the earth and make it manifest the above-mentioned truths. He despatches these caravans to this place of exhibition and then dismisses them, sending others in their place. He keeps the workshop of the universe in unceasing operation. Raising corporeal crops, He turns the land into a nursery of saplings for the Hereafter and for Paradise. The fact that He brings forth most ingenious foods and precious gifts in infinite variety and manifold delicious form in order to satisfy the corporeal stomach of man. and to answer actively the prayer for sustenance which the stomach utters and to which He hearkens most earnestly — this fact shows, in the most obvious and indubitable form, that in the Hereafter the most plentiful and varied of pleasures shall be corporeal, and the most important and most desired and familiar of bounties shall aiso be corporeal.
Is it at all probable or even possible that one АН-Powerful and All-Merciful, Omniscient and Generous should accept the prayer for sustenance uttered by the stomach and gratify it with an infinite variety of miraculous and material food, thus answering its prayer consistently, intentionally and deliberately —is it at all possible that having done this, He should not accept the universal prayer of the generic stomach of humanity — the supreme result of creation, the Divine vicegerent on earth, the chosen servant and worshipper of the Creator— for the continued bestowal in the Hereafter of those universal and exalted corporeal pleasures which man constantly desires and seeks out in accordance with his essential nature? Or that this prayer should not receive practical answer with the corporeal resurrection, or that man should not be eternally gratified? It would be like hearing the sound of a fly, and failing to hear the roar of thunder. It would be like paying the utmost attention to the equipment of an ordinary footsoldier, and neglecting completely a whole army. This is excluded and impossible to the hundredth degree. Yes,
There will be there all that the souls could desire, all that the eyes could delight in.³
According to the unmistakable explicit tense of this verse, man will experience and tasle, in a fashion appropriate to Paradise, the corporeal pleasures to which he is most accustomed and a specimen of which he has already received in this world. The reward for the sincere pronouncement of thanks and for the particular mode of worship engaged in by organs such as the tongue, the eye and the ear, will be given in the form of pleasures suited to each organ. The Qur'an of Muraculous Exposition expounds corporeal pleasures in so explicit a fashion that it is impossible to refuse the outward sense by extracting other meanings.
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3. Qur'an. 43:71.