The A Bridgement Of The Levels Of The People In The Hereafter

So these are the levels of the people, and their ranks in the Abode of the Hereafter, as mentioned by Ibnul-Qayyim (died 752 AH) and they are eighteen in number.

The highest level is that of the Messengers, may Allah extol and grant them perfect peace and security.

These levels, as you will see, comprehend all the type of Mankind and Jinn: their old and their young, the Muslims and the Unbelivers, the obedient and the disobedient, their people of knowledge and their ignorant ones, the leaders from them and the subjects. The Imaam, the verifier, Ibnul-Qayyim mentioned them in his valuable book 'Tareequl-Hijrarayn wa Baabus-Sa'aadatayn' ('Two Migrations and the Door to the Two States of Bliss'). And by 'the two Migrations', he ment migrating toward Allah and to His Messenger through true Faith (Eemaan), love, and obedience; and by 'the two states of Bliss' he ment the Bliss of this world and the Hereafter for those who were true Belivers and who performed righteous and correct deeds.

So this is a mevellous classification in which he explained what is for or agains each level. It includes the correct Belif (Aqeedah) with regard to the Prphets, and the Messenger, and the righteous servants of Allah and their virtues, ranks, and the reward that Allah, the Most High, has prepated for them; and it includes the virtues of righteous and correct deeds; just as it includes the correct Belief regarding the Hypocrities (al-Munaafiqoon), and the Unbelivers, and those who associate others with Allah in worshhip and what He has prepated for them from torment and humiliation.