A Study of Khawjah Nasir Tusi's Exposition of the Quranic Verses of the Hereafter Based on His Treatise Aghaz va Anjam

Khawjah Nasir Tusi, the famous Shiite philosopher, theologian and mystic, in his valuable treatise Aghaz va Anjam has presented a large amount of exposition on the verses of the hereafter qualifying it much differently. As viewed by him, taking fair ones with wide, lovely eyes in marriage is meant unification with incorporeal forms, resurrection`s state of being day of gathering means upgrading the place and time and presence of all people from the beginning to the end of creation, and the verse: And when the wild beasts are herded together, has taken as people`s being herded in their essential forms, and purgatory is known to be this world, heavenly rivers of water, milk, honey and drink as different orders of sermons and religious sciences; seven doors of Hell as five external senses and imagination and fantasy; letter of human actions as effects of human actions and speeches on one`s soul; mabda` and ma`aad as first nature, fitrah, and returning to it. The paper has presented and studied Tusi`s expositions critically.