Journey to the Unseen World

Publisher Marketing: Man instinctively desires to have an understanding of the life Hereafter, i.e. the life after death and the state of the Barzakh (the interval between death and resurrection), which we all have to face. Knowledge of "Barzakh" is required because Barzakh is completely different from this world. So man wishes to know how his present lifestyle and his activities here will affect his life in the Barzakh. Certain questions rise in his mind, like: what sort of people will he encounter there? What kind of beings live there? Do eating, drinking, sleeping, waking friendship, enmity etc, exist there, and if so in what form? What is the span of time between death and resurrection (Barzakh) and what will his activities be in this period? What do happiness and wretchedness in Barzakh entail? Principally, does a spirit need a body after death or does it become permanently free and independent of the body and becomes engaged in an infinite journey towards an unknown destination? Whether the spirits will be granted bodies and if so, will these bear any resemblance to our present bodies? And whether the spirits are able to communicate with the people living on earth or do communication and contact stop forever? This book attempts to answer these and other similar questions. The late author has attempted to take his reader on a tour of the Barzakh and the land of the spirits. For some time he takes man away from the base and material, away from the noise and hustle of the world, and into the very lap of the spiritual and angelic state, that is, the life in the Barzakh. Contributor Bio:  Publications, Yasin Indeed, if every once in a while in history an exceptional human being comes to existence, the late Ayatollah Sayed Mohammad Redha Al-Shirazi was one of them. He was exceptional in every aspect-in his angelic manners, his saint-like behavior, his deep knowledge, his wealth of information, his loyalty to scholarship, his unrelenting faith in God, his burning love for Ahlul-Bayt (peace be upon them), his unmatched level of piety, his profound ability to influence and guide people, his immense level of sincerity and devotion, his fantastic balance between tenderness and firmness, his delicate degree of sensitivity to never hurt others in any way, his fine fatherly figure to his children, his perfect approach in protecting his family, his kind and gentle smile, his utmost respect to everyone around him, his complete obedience and unconditional humbleness towards his parents, his insistence on taking advantage of every second, his abandonment of the materialistic world, his marvelous preparation for the Hereafter, his empathetic tears for Ahlul-Bayt (peace be upon them) and the oppressed, his concern for the youth, and hundreds of other virtues and outstanding qualities that he possessed. Simply put, he was an embodiment of Ahlul-Bayt, peace be upon them. Ayatollah Sayed Mohammad Redha Al-Shirazi, may Allah shower his soul with mercy, was born in the holy city of Karbala in the year 1379 A. H., about half a century ago. He comes from a family known for its scholarship and devotion to Islam. His father is the late Grand Ayatollah Sayed Mohammad Al-Shirazi, and his grandfather is the late Grand Ayatollah Mirza Mahdi Al-Shirazi, may Allah shower their souls with mercy. He spent his early childhood close to the shrine of Imam Al-Hussain, peace be upon him in Karbala. Then, along with his father, he immigrated to Kuwait as a result of the persecution they were subjected to by the Baathist regime. After spending several years in Kuwait, where he studied well and prepared himself for a new level of scholarship, he migrated to Iran. In Iran he studied under a number of prominent Grand Scholars. Around the time of dawn on the 26th of Jamadi I, 1429 (June 1, 2008) and in obscure circumstances, he departed this world to meet his Lord. His departure struck a great and irreplaceable loss around the world. Millions mourned his loss around the world. He had the honor of being buried in the holy shrine of his grandfather Imam Al-Hussain, peace be upon him.