Every person creates his own heaven and hell. A disciple once asked his murshid, "Pray, Murshid, let me see heaven in a vision." The murshid said, "Go into the next room, child, and sit and close your eyes and you will see heaven." The mureed went into the next room and sat in meditation. He saw in his vision a large area but nothing else. There were no rivers of honey and seas of milk, nor bricks of ruby, nor roofs of diamonds.

He went to his murshid and said, "Thank you, Murshid. Now I have seen heaven, I should like to see hell." The murshid said, "Very well; do the same again." The disciple went into the next room and sat in his meditation, and again he saw a large area, but nothing in it, no snakes, no fire, no devils nor cruel animals, nothing.

He went to the murshid and said, "I saw an area, but again there was nothing in it." The murshid said, "Child, did you expect that the rivers of honey and the seas of milk would be there, or the snakes or the fire in hell? No. There is nothing there; you will have to take everything from here. This is the place to gather everything, either the delights of heaven or the fires of hell.'

"Heaven is the vision of fulfilled desire, and hell the shadow of a soul on fire", says Omar Khayyam.