The Two Roads - Heaven and Hell

the earth had continued to froth up its water. Their whole world with
its undulating mountains and plains had totally disappeared under a
blanket of flood-water. The only unevenness was formed by the
colossal, pyramidal tsunamis, huge triangular waves making sure that
there were no survivors apart from those who had boarded the ark of
N[# u.
When the water had finally subsided the world had been totally
purified from the filth of disbelief and from the plague of polytheism.
All\h I has created, nurtured, clothed and fed His creation to such an
extent that even if any one of His creations were to fall ill, All\h I
alone would be able to restore his health. Despite loving His creation
so much, because of their disobeying and betraying and denying Him,
All\h I had decided that enough was enough, and thus in one fell
swoop, annihilated all of those who chose to oppose Him by filling
their lungs with an unquantifiable amount of water, making them fall
into the sleep of death. And thus they deprived themselves of the love
and affection that All\h I had to offer them, by sowing the seeds of
their own destruction with their own hands.
Nab| Mu#ammad r had also given such an example. He spoke of a fire
burning brightly surrounded by innumerable insects all being drawn
by the light towards it. Next to the fire is a person trying to push back
the insects. This person keeps on pushing the insects back but still they
keep on coming, swarming him, hellbent on getting into the fire,
which will be their self-destruction, and even with the person trying to
keep them away, their suicidal goal is achieved in a burning and
complete form.
The Nab| r compared this with reality. The fire is nothing but Hell. The
insects are men, women and jinn. The force attracting the insects to
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