You can find detailed information on the 2nd and 3rd stages in Muhammad’s Allah.
As for the first, life inside the grave, if certain precautions are not taken then it will become an utter nightmare, one from which you cannot wake up! This is known, in religious terms, as “the suffering of the grave”.
Just as your day and level of consciousness reflect to your dreams and you can’t do anything to change those dreams, the life of the grave is similarly automated, it is the automatic output of your level of consciousness while you are in this world and can no longer be changed.
It is possible to protect yourself from this endless state of pain and suffering by taking certain precautions and making preparations while you are still here, which is the whole point of religion.
In other words, the purpose of religion is not to deify an imaginary god but to duly prepare for an infinite life awaiting after death, to know one’s essential reality and to try to understand the reality of Allah![1]
Spiritual strength is nothing other than the strength of the brain waves, i.e. the frequency your brain outputs, because the waves your brain produces are what forms your spirit.
As for the enlightened ones…
An enlightened saint engages in heavy dhikr and abstinence practices, as a result of this he gains enormous brain capacity and emanates powerful frequencies…
When you find someone like this, they can direct those waves to your brain, whereby a dormant capacity becomes activated in your brain and you will suddenly and easily realize and discern things you weren’t able to prior to this experience… Their words will have an impact on you due to the force it carries, and hence this person will stimulate great development in you… and based on this many will say “I went to such and such enlightened person and through him I gained insight and wisdom.”
There are two types of brain waves:
1. General waves
2. Directed waves
All brains pre-dominantly output general waves…
Prayer, on the other hand, generates ‘directed waves’[2]
For example, a group of people come together and pray for rain, in other words they are all consciously focusing on the same purpose at the same time and collectively producing strong waves that form a magnetic field in that area pulling the clouds together for rain…
It is the same thing when a group of people come together and consciously and collectively pray together directing their brain waves towards a specific outcome…
Pilgrimage is a much stronger form of this![3]
If many people, even if they are at different places, tune in at the same time with the same intention and concentrate and pray for a specific outcome, it will most probably happen. This is ‘spiritual’ support!
Sometimes this type of practice may also be directed to other frequencies, such as the jinn, but I do not wish to talk about this here.
THE MEN OF THE UNKNOWN (al-rijal al-ghayb), people of extreme spiritual strength, generally spread various knowledge on earth via these waves…
This is why certain knowledge was acquired and applied at the same time in different locations in the world by people who had no contact with one another… Ibn Arabi metaphorically discusses this in his “al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah” for those who are interested.
The word spirit expresses two significant qualities to us:
1. Spirit is the quintessential energy that comprises the essence of matter, what science calls photons today; it is the universal quantum field!
Hence every iota of existence is composed of the SPIRIT…
There is nothing in the universe that does not derive its existence from the SPIRIT.
Every radial particle or wave exists and moves with the energy it gets from the SPIRIT.
Therefore, the universe has come about with the SPIRIT, it continues to exist with the SPIRIT, and until the Doomsday it will continue to derive its life from the SPIRIT.
In religious terms, the universe was created with the SPIRIT and hence it can never become totally non-existent.