Introduction:

An eternal, matchless beauty requires an eternal lover through whom it will be reflected permanently. A faultless, eternal, and perfect art demands a permanent contemplative herald. An infinite mercy and benevolence require the continued ease and happiness of needy ones to thank it. The human soul is the foremost of those lovers, contemplative heralds, and needy thankful ones. Given this, it will accompany that beauty, perfection, and mercy on the way to eternity.

Perhaps all creatures, even the most primitive, are created for some kind of eternity. Even the spiritless flower has a sort of post-death immortality: Its form is preserved in memories, and the laws of its formation gain permanence via new flowers growing from its seeds. Since these laws, the model of its form that has the same significance for it as our spirit has for us, is preserved through its seeds by the All-Preserving, All-Wise One, the human soul, which has a sublime comprehensive nature and consciousness and has been clothed with external existence, is far more deserving of being eternal. How could an All-Wise One of Majesty, an All-Preserving One of Eternity, Who maintains a huge tree's life-cycle and the law of its formation through a tiny seed, not preserve the souls of dead people?