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"A friend asked: 'How should one look forward to death?' Abdul- Baha answered: 'How does one look forward to the end of any journey? With hope and expectation. It is even so with the end of this earthly journey. In the next world man will find himself freed from many of the disabilities under which he now suffers. Those who have passed on through death, have a sphere of their own. It is not removed from ours: their work of the Kingdom, is ours; but it is sanctified from what we call time and place. Those who have ascended have different attributes from those who are still on earth, yet there is no real separation. In prayer there is a mingling of stations, a mingling of condition.'" (Dal 123- 4) (89:5)

"All men shall, after their physical death, estimate the worth of their deeds, and realize all that their hands have wrought... They that are the followers of the one true God shall, the moment they depart out of this life, experience such joy and gladness as would be impossible to describe, while they that live in error shall be seized with such fear and trembling, and shall be filled with such consternation, as nothing can exceed." (Gl 171) (89:6)

"The punishments of the other world... consist in being deprived of the special divine blessings and the absolute bounties, and falling into the lowest degrees of existence. He who is deprived of these divine favors, although he continues after death, is considered as dead by the people of truth." (Bwf 325) (89:7)

"Likewise the rewards of the other world are the eternal life which is clearly mentioned in all the Holy Books, the divine perfections, the eternal bounties, and everlasting felicity. The rewards of the other world are the perfections and the peace obtained in the spiritual worlds after leaving this world." (Bwf 324) (89:8)

"'On the Day of Judgment, when men stand before their Lord, they will not be questioned as to their education and the degree of their culture-- rather will they be examined as to their good deeds.'" (Sdc 102) (89:9)

"The loftiest mansions in the Realm of Immortality have been ordained as the habitation of them that have truly believed in God and in His signs. Death can never invade that holy seat." (Gl 141) (89:10)

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