35. The trialogue between the People of Paradise, the People of the Fire.
and the People of the Heights gives some indication of the tremendous range
of human faculties in the Next World. These faculties would increase to such
an extent that the People of Paradise, the People of the Fire and the People
of the Heights will be able to see, hear and talk to one another. Other Qur'anic
statements about the Hereafter enable us to realize that the laws operating
in the Next World will be altogether different from those in the present. Notwithstanding
this, men's personalities will not undergo any such change.
Those who cannot perceive any thing beyond the present limited world and who
are incapable of imagining scales bigger than the ones relating to the present
world, make fun of the statements in the Qur'an and Hadith about life in the
Hereafter. This only betrays their poverty of understanding and imagination.
The fact, however, is that the possibilities for life are not as narrow and
limited as their minds.