°•○ Prophet Isa (as) said to his followers, "My friends! By God! Spending your life consuming dry bread & salt and sleeping on hard rocks is so much better and greater if it is with faith in Allah."

°•○ Imam Ali (as) said, "You have been shown, if you only care to see;

You have been advised if you care to take advantage of advice;

You have been told if you care to listen to good counsels."

In the past, people didn't know about Allah (swt), religion, faith, etc. Thus they committed many sins until Allah sent his Prophets to guide them to the right path.

Nowadays, there is not many people who don't not know about Allah or Islam. Most people know that religion exists, teachings about way of life exists yet they don't accept it and chose to ignore them. Therefore, there are more wicked people in the world right now than in the past. It's because people of this century know about God and religion. They all have Internet and can easily go and search more about it, but they refuse and chose to disobey Allah's orders.

○○○

For the Believers, Allah doesn't want to punish them. So they get troubles and disasters in this world and that will be the atonement for their sins.

Like a needle hurting, or a thorn going in your hand or even bad dreams or stress.

For example, you loose your phone and you get stress because you can't find it but then you find it. That stress will be the atonement for your sin.

Allah loves you and doesn't want to punish you when you pass away.

But for someone else, unfortunately, all these incidents in this world in not enough for them to get cleaned from their sins, so they get punished when passing away to clean them up.

If it's not good enough and they still haven't been cleaned yet. Then, they go to a stage of Hell for example for 50 years in Hell fire to get clean.

If not clean even at that time. Then, it will be left to Judgement day!

There's a saying you will be resurrected with what you loved!

An example: You'll someone in judgement day with a house chained to their arms and they complain 'what to do?!' and they'll told. 'You loved it! then just drag it with the chains.'

Note: (Loving their house/possession impurely/committed haram to get it or did Haram inside it and A lot of other things, etc.)

Judgement day is very difficult as its been mentioned in many hadiths and speeches. Such as hunger and thirst. So that's why you are told to fast. To not be hungry in Judgement day, amongst its many other benefits. But then there are people who say I don't want to fast. So then You'll be having a difficult time...

You are the one who brings destruction and pain upon yourself. There is no force.

If you want to live in a bad way with sins and desires. Then you will be the one who'll be enduring a lot of sufferings too.

People are the ones who take themselves to Hell!

Allah (swt) just wants all the good and mercy for us. Allah is the Creator of us all.

The one who loves Amir al-Mu'minin Ali (as) if having done so many sins will be going to Hell but not staying there, meaning they will eventually be freed. It's not possible for them to be there forever unlike some other people and other matters.

It's a scary narration, it's been said that, 'Some of those who love us (as) but unfortunately have committed sins will be staying in Hell for 300,000 years and after that we will be given permission by Allah (swt) to intercede for them so they can be free.'

Like they loved Amir al-Mu'minin Ali (as) but were bad and evil themselves, like passed the level of humans to something worse. The amount of sins and crimes, etc.

They ate Haram and ignored someone's rights. These all doesn't have anything to do with your love towards Amir al-Mu'minin Ali (as). That is why it's been mentioned, keep an eye on your deeds before they calculate your deeds for you.

That's why for many Believers the difficulties and bad misfortunes coming there way is because of their sins. If they hadn't committed, there wouldn't be. We should always beg for forgiveness and pray to Allah (swt).

All Muslims must strive to learn more about Islam and educate themselves since there is no excuse for not knowing. If we don't know something then we should ask and learn. Everything has been explained and we have the Holy Qur'an, Hadiths Of Ahlulbayt (as), The 12 Imams (Leaders) who have taught us a lot about Islam.

○○○

Prophet (saw) said, "There will come a time for my Ummah when Quran is considered a tradition and Islam is only known by its Name. People of that time will be called Muslim while they're the furthest from Islam. Their mosques will look fancy & decorated but there is no guidance in them. The scholars of that time are the worst, because they're corrupted!

•••

We have a group of people who are called:

• Ashab Al-Araf, Those who mixed goods and bads together. They'll be left in the path of A'raf. That's when Prophets will go to help them and will stay with them until they're allowed to enter Jannah.

7 groups of people who are damned (Damnation):

1. Those who add something to the Holy book of Allah and change it.

2. Those who disagree with Prophet Muhammad (saw)'s sunnah and way.

3. Those who are enemies with Prophet (saw)'s Ahlulbayt, family and don't respect them.

4. Those who consider what Allah (swt) declared as Haram to be Halal & what He declared as Halal to be Haram.

5. Those who neglect their daily prayers & don't worship Allah (swt).

6. Those who unrightfully use the money from Treasury that belongs to all Muslim people. (Bayt almal)

7. Those who forcefully take over the government so they can disrespect & humiliate Servants of Allah (swt).

Professor Ali Akbar Raefipour's Speech

Shaytan knows what he is going to do in Judgement day! People of Hell will begin to swear at him and complain to Allah (swt) that everything was his fault.

Shaytan will then say to the people of Hell, "Did I held your hands and forced you to obey me?!" I'm personally afraid of Allah (swt)'s wrath."

He'll continue, "O Allah, I loathe these people! They were extremely foolish. A lot of Prophets came to them and told them to come to the right path but they refused and I said come to my way and they listened."

He'll say to them, "Did I tie your hands and forcefully dragged you?! I just invited you and you listened to me. You were the ones who chose my path!"

In Universities, they give you formulas and ask you to use it in anyway that you see fit & figure out the answer.

Allah (swt) also gave us lots of formulas which are very easy to understand because he is Arhamur Rahimin. He is asking us to use these formulas.

Unfortunately, there are foolish people who say, "Why is this formula like this?? Shouldn't it be like this??"

But your time is running, Just use the formula and write the answer. For how many years are you going to live? Why are you questioning Allah (swt)'s formulas?

Some people spend their entire life on checking these formulas whether they're right or wrong, true or false.

Some other people say, "We don't have time, just write the answer, our life is short."

One more thing, If you want to go Mecca or any other Holy places but you have some problems, just go and try to get rid of the obstacles. Don't just sit and say, "Well there are problems." Try to get rid of the problem and Allah (swt) will help you as well.