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               160  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 9 (30): 143-173, Spring 2022
               punishment,  Martyr  Motahari             The  phrase  “and  people’s
               argued that:                           actions are placed like collars
                      The        forms       of       on their necks”, (Sahifa Sajjadiyya)
                      punishment      in    the       in the forty-second supplication
                      hereafter have stronger         of  “Sahifa  Sajjadiyya”  and
                      developmental relationships     verses like “…Then be on your
                      with sins. The relationship     guard  against  the  fire  of
                      between an action and           which men and stones are the
                      its  punishment  in  the        fuel…”, (Quran, 2: 24) “And

                      hereafter  is  neither          as  to  the  deviators,  they  are
                      type one (conventional)         fuel of hell”, (Quran, 72: 15)
                      nor  type  two  (causal);       “Then  if  he  is  one  of  those
                      rather,  it  is  a  level       drawn  nigh  (to  Allah)*Then
                      above  them  and  is            happiness  and  bounty  and  a
                      objectivity  and  union         garden of bliss.” (Quran, 56:
                      relationships. (Motahari,       88-89), and “…it shall wish that

                      1997, Vol 1: 230)               between it and that (evil) there
                                                      were  a  long  duration  of
                  Mulla  Hadi  Sabzevari  in          time…” (Quran, 3: 30) can be
               his  preface  to  “Asfar”,  (Ref:      counted  as  the  traditional
               Sabzevari,      1997:      328)        evidence concerning the unity
               Ghazali  in  “Forty  Principles        of action with its reward and

               of  Religion”,  (Ref:  Ghazali,        punishment.
               1965:  206)  and  Muhammad                Thus, what has been reported
               Abdu (Ref: Rashid Rida, 1990)          in  near-death  experiences
               supported  the  theory  and
               stipulated it in their works.          concerning  the  observation
                                                      of  one’s  actions  and  their
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