whose remembrance is “Allah,” adding nothing to it within themselves. This is their remembrance within themselves and with the tongue in their seclusions. Publicly, their remembrance is “There is no god but God,” followed by kinds of remembrance: “Glory be to God,” qualified and unqualified; “Praise belongs to God,” likewise; “God is greater,” likewise; and “There is no power and no strength except through God,” likewise.
He populated the worldly Abode, the first of the two Abodes, with this intended kind from the world, and assigned named terms to their dwelling there. They reach these, then pass to the Abode of the Hereafter when their duration is complete.
Their passage is of two kinds. Some pass through death, departing the life of this world and living through the life of the Hereafter. Others pass with the life of this world, without death: specifically, the martyr in God’s way. He is not said to be superior to the dead except in being superior to some of the dead.
(Communities, Messengers, and the Sealing of Legislation)
God made this human kind into many communities in this world, then sent a messenger within every community to teach it the matter for which they were created. He teaches them what the Real requires them to do, the good they will have with God in the Abode of the Hereafter if they do it, and the punishment they face if they do not, with God in the worldly Abode—when those governing them know of it—and in the Hereafter.
He then established degrees of excellence among them: the excellent and the more excellent among communities and messengers. He sealed the communities with Muhammad’s community,
