mahmoud fath ali

The belief in the life after death and its quality is one of the important issues in all religions. Muslims thinkers have expounded this issue and recounted the pure of Islam thought in the light of the Qur'an and sunnah. Although they accept idea of the spiritual resurrection, they have a difference of opinion over the idea of corporeal resurrection and its quality. According to the Qur’anic verses and narrations, the corporeal resurrection with an elemental body not with an ideal body on the Day of Judgment in certain. However, some thinkers cast doubt about the theory of corporeal resurrection with elemental body. This study five critically reviews important doubts about the physical resurrection with elemental body and concludes that none of them can undermine the facts reflected by Qur’anic verses and hadiths about the elemental property of physical corporeal resurrection. These doubts include the characteristics of the inhabitants of Paradise, not being deprived of the trees of Paradise, suffering and trial, lack of spatial and temporal interference in the beings of the Hereafter, and failure to attain perfection. The reason for choosing these doubts is that on the one hand, these doubts are of special importance; On the other hand, they are less discussed in philosophical and theological works.

In Allamah Tabatabaii’s view, “best interest” means that “a thing exists on the requirement of its main nature in such a way that proper and suitable goodness and benefit is related to it, without being corrupted and deprived from good effects. This meaning of “best interest” can be analyzed into five components: 1. “best interest” is an existential continuous fact; 2. “best interest” is the requirement of main nature of things; 3. the condition of requirement of nature is the lack of obstacle; 4. In case of lack of obstacle, the effect of requirement of main nature of things is the successive order of goodness and benefit suitable to the rank of things; 5. The main nature of things inclines towards “best interest”. The provided analysis of “best interest” is a general title that admits some conditions based on which is divided into different types as follows” “psychic and relative”, “relative and absolute”, “related to essence and act”, genetic and revealed”, “stable and changing”; “personal and social”, “material and spiritual”.