http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/5190 Documenting the Persecution of the Baha'i Community in Iran Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:45:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/5190/comment-page-1#comment-3756 colorado Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:40:15 +0000 http://www.iranpresswatch.org/?p=5190#comment-3756 Isn't there a hadith in which one of the Companions of the Prophet was asked whether it was true that things described as being in Paradise are not the like the things of the same name in this life? Even if the extreme affirmative reply recorded is not considered authoritative, might it not be considered an idea similar to philosophical concepts of different-natured worlds or heavens, already seeded into earliest Islam? Isn’t there a hadith in which one of the Companions of the Prophet was asked whether it was true that things described as being in Paradise are not the like the things of the same name in this life? Even if the extreme affirmative reply recorded is not considered authoritative, might it not be considered an idea similar to philosophical concepts of different-natured worlds or heavens, already seeded into earliest Islam?

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