the lives of a human being have been to defined as five according to a koran next presentation renew or there's a tradition in islam that says every one hundred years that god sends somebody who revives or renews dean this tradition and he's considered one of them h ad an extraordinary impact on them on yemen as well as all over the muslim world his books have spread all over so the five periods the first period is a pre worldly period the phenomenal existence feel touch the sensory world and most of our scholars would include in this what we now know of the unseen phenomenal world which would be the world of x light waves sound waves gamma rays this world that we can't see but it's palpable we can we can measure it we have access to the monarch who is a realm that we cannot see we do not have access to it there is some inner penetration because the angelic world that can move into the angelic world is in the  are either pleasing or disturbing to the and that has to do with things that are done with the moral component so when people are doing right things the matter could actually is is happy and rejoices about it when they do foul things then the opposite occurs and i'm going to go into that now the importance of knowing about these according to the islamic tradition is that unlike twentieth century man who in a lot of ways has removed him or herself completely from the scene experience if you go into with a sense of magic and they looked at the world because it was not understood they looked at it in a way that caused them to experience an unseen explanation for so much of what was happening around them so whether illness all of these things that happen right now if you look just to take for the example of illness in most cultures illness was often attributed to evil spirits attributed to the evil eye obviously as medicine became more advanced and you can see the greek from a lot of their texts which is interesting given that that was a popular belief in their culture but if you look at modern man we have seen explanation but they're no longer magical so bacteria is not something that we see it's an unseen realm i mean you can see it on the microscope but most people the doctor says you've got a virus it's not something you saw he doesn't bring out a slide show you a microscope and there it is but it is something we understand and people have had biology classes so they do have an idea so we we have identified many of the things that are impacting our world and given them the tiriel explanations and those material explanations caused a disenchantment with the world so we no longer are enchanted by what is around us when we look at natural phenomena many of us have some basic explanations for it so when weather strikes us we have scientists to tell us this is  phenomenal and when droughts comes they explain the reasons for that and yet in the in the ancient world and still in a lot of places on the earth these things are seen as coming from the unseen world in other words drought is still understood in most parts of the world to be from displeasure so for instance the muslims still believe that drought is a sign that blessings have been removed and it's seen as a reminder and that's why the muslims will go out and do a rain prayer and they bring their animals out there bring their children out and the  if people begin to cheat in their buying and selling and have unjust wastes and balances the rain is withheld from them and then he said had it not been for dumb animals they would have gotten no rain at all in other words it's not the humans that are worthy of the rain but it's the animals that aren't doing anything wrong so this is still of the muslim world and you will find this also within the indic culture within the scenic culture you're going to find this in many many cultures and certainly amongst traditional christians in american culture you will still find that many of them when they read the newspaper you know they will see these as signs what's have these are sign from god so introducing at an early age the unseen world is introduced to muslim children and they are made aware of the unseen world and so of the five lives of man only one of them is what we're going to experience in this realm the other four are in another realm and this is an that the likeness of this doing yoga and the other world is like somebody who put their finger into an ocean and pulls it out what is on his finger in relation to the ocean is like the unseen world in relation to this world and he also reported that he saw the angel gabriel in his original form and he filled the entire horizon of a desert landscape so if you could imagine looking out towards santa fe and seeing an angelic being filled the entire horizon  having an experience that was a spiritual experience that took place for that human being and giving him an insight into the relationship quantitative relationship of this world to the other world and there are many examples of that in the tradition so the second realm and i'm going to go into each one  reaching out for grapes that will every time you get near them they move a little further away from you so i the the idea there is that the phenomenal world is that we as we attempt to grasp it we are moving away right paul simon has a song called slip sliding away the nearer you are to your destination the more you're slip sliding away right and it's about death is that you know you're and that that idea is captured in a wonderful h i'm in which he drew in the sand box and then he drew a line and he drew a line up there he didn't write it but he drew a line here at the top of this line and then he drew a line out here and he said that this was a man's journey in line and these lines were the out ob they were the vicissitudes of his journey at each stage things will happen to him if they don't do a man he moves to the next one until he reaches at this the agile is your appointed term and it could be at any point because people are different it could be at any point along the way but there are people who go all the way through they reach old age and what gets them is known as hot  and there is a tradition in which the prophet said peace be upon that the children of adam god has given them the ability to do all things except conquer harm they can't conquer old age and he also said that anxiety was half of them that having a lot of  anxiety will will actually cut your life in half so as you're moving up through life you read this as a job but then he had a line outside of the box and he said this was so a man hope is always beyond his time people that reject what you're telling them about the inevitability of the next life leave them to eat and enjoy themselves and to the interchange and you'll hear means to pre occupy themselves with their hope and indeed they will come to know in other words their agit will come and then they're going to realize that the edges preceded the hope and he also said that people two things never grow old in people desire for life and desire for more right  and it means here doesn't mean all people it means people that are deluded so the this this desire for extended life and the interesting thing is the longer a person is the more accustomed they get you know you get up every morning you had your rituals your coffee your breakfast you go to work you see the same people you get accustomed to being here  and we get we were we're in this very interesting experience of the permanence and every once in a while there are things that happen that kind of shake us a little bit like one day you come to work and so and so was in an accident or so or you get a phone call and your mother just died or a good friend or something there are these reminders and they kind of shake people a little bit but most people brush themselves off and just go along get on with it so we we have this really and this is all about this lower world the dounia because it's like the grapes we're always reaching for it and it's always moving away because the moment we came into life into this dunia around our death we're moving inevitably towards our death one of my teachers in the desert when i was leaving and it was a camel journey of about a day the last thing he said to me he said this journey that you're taking this morning is like your life you're moving towards a destination and every step that your camel makes takes you a step closer to that destination and he said every breath you take is a step closer to the terminations of your breasts so keep that in mind along the way and i was with a west african we arrived at an airport and he'd never been on one of these moving  not the escalators but the actual sidewalks and we got on it and we were standing there moving along and he said this is amazing this is just like our lives we think we're standing still but we're moving towards our das and then it was really interesting because at the end of the of the side walk there there was a sign that said caution the end comes up ro so there's that is the metaphor and this is the point that unlike that escalator where you know where it's going to end the you know this this walkway of life that were on the end can come at any point and so keeping this in mind is something that's really important to go a little bit into that and then the third stage is known as the water and the salt water between them is a interspace and if you if you've ever seen where big rivers meet the ocean there is an admixture of the sweet and the salty that has a completely different  ecology it has a different the the water is not the same that is that's what a bottle is it's an interstate that's not this or that it's neither this nor that and so when we die there is a place that is neither this world nor is it the next world you're in this interest space and this is where people are in their graves and we'll get to that also  then the fourth place is the gathering place where the and the national takes place and this is going to be the final judgment takes place in this ro what's called the day of judgment and then if it is is the final abo either divine presence or alienation from divine presence it's one or the other now to look at the word in arabic for a life is called an almost and a kuwaiti term of endearment a wife will call her husband or the husband will call the wife only my life and if they're just getting to know each other they'll say but i'll go on body part of my life that the prophet says to them i do well to among you a lifetime before this revelation in other words the first forty years so this is an aroma the first forty years is a lifetime and some say there's a verse in the pot on that mentions that god gave people of whole life and it's said that it's forty years that if you've had forty years on the earth then you've had a full life  and whatever comes after is just bounty that you should be grateful you made it to forty so the human beings within this doing your realm have stages also and we'll get into that so that's one and almost is it's a life now the first life was the life before conception and there's a in seven one seventy two in your translations in the chapter seven one seventy two when it says that when your lord brought forth from the children of adam from their minds there is c and made them testify of themselves to the all of adam's progeny every human being that would ever exist was brought forth on a plane in this pre has ever existed is existant now and will ever exist was brought into this divine presence and said am i not your lord and those souls replied in the affirmative bet as she hid now we indeed you are our lord and we testify to that through now this truth is buried in the soul and there not a lot in the for on or in the how these about this free worldly there's only one other event that we know of which is another contract was made with the profits that they would all tell their peoples of the last profit that's the only other indication that we have about this free world the round now from this pretty worldly ro into the womb after one hundred and twenty days one hundred twenty days the this soul that was in the divine presence enters into the womb of its mother so for the first  hundred twenty we're dealing with a biological phenomenon that does not have spiritual life it has biological life that is actually the mother  um