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The Gnostic's Proof - Hamza ibn Ali ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani

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So among them are those that turn the wheels and the millstones, and among them are those that cultivate the earth by plowing, and among them are those upon which heavy loads are carried, and among them are those that are ridden, and among them are those left for breeding without fatigue.

All of that is the recompense for what it deserved. And what runs upon it in the bestial state is what ran upon it in the human state, of fatigue and ease. And retribution is taken from some of them for others until the Day of the Manifestation of the Qa'im [The Riser], so the believer ascends to his world, and the disbeliever is repeated in the Durr [Pearl/Atom], a cycle.

And know that the believer, before he becomes pure, has twenty-one Shirts [Qamis]; they are the Shirts of Deferment, in which the human is returned knowing Allah, knowledgeable of Him, until the last Shirt ends. And that reaches, in years, one thousand and seventy years and seven hours, then he becomes pure. So this is the end of the believer.

As for the end of the disbeliever, there has arrived in the book Haqa'iq Asrar al-Din [Realities of the Secrets of Religion] by Abu Muhammad b. Shu'ba (peace be upon him) regarding this meaning a long explanation, which we have abbreviated for fear of prolongation:

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