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Everyone is scared of dying and rightly so.\u00a0 The uncertainty of what lies beyond is frightening. It may be that of all religions, Islam, provides the most graphic details of what comes after death and lies beyond.\u00a0 Islam views death to be a natural threshold to the next stage of existence.<\/p>\n
Islamic doctrine holds that human existence continues after the death of the human body in the form of spiritual and physical resurrection.\u00a0 There is a direct relation between conduct on earth and the life beyond.\u00a0 The afterlife will be one of rewards and punishments which is commensurate with earthily conduct.\u00a0 A Day will come when God will resurrect and gather the first and the last of His creation and judge everyone justly.\u00a0 People will enter their final abode, Hell or Paradise.\u00a0 Faith in life after death urges us to do right and to stay away from sin.\u00a0 In this life we sometimes see the pious suffer and the impious enjoy.\u00a0 All shall be judged one day and justice will be served.<\/p>\n
Faith in life after death is one of the six fundamental beliefs required of a Muslim to complete his faith.\u00a0 Rejecting it renders all other beliefs meaningless.\u00a0 Think of a child who does not put his hand in fire.\u00a0 He does not do so because he is sure it will burn. When it comes to doing school work, the same child may feel lazy because he does not quite understand what a sound education will do for his future.\u00a0 Now, think of a man who does not believe in the Day of Judgment.\u00a0 Would he consider belief in God and a life driven by his belief in God to be of any consequence? \u00a0To him, neither obedience to God is of use, nor is disobedience of any harm.\u00a0 How, then, can he live a God-conscious life? \u00a0What incentive would he have to suffer the trials of life with patience and avoid overindulgence in worldly pleasures? \u00a0And if a man does not follow the way of God, then what use is his belief in God, if he has any? \u00a0The acceptance or rejection of life after death is perhaps the greatest factor in determining the course of an individual\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
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The dead have a continued and conscious existence of a kind in the grave.\u00a0 Muslims believe that, upon dieing, a person enters an intermediate phase of life between death and resurrection.\u00a0 Many events take place in this new \u201cworld\u201d, such as the \u201ctrial\u201d of the grave, where everyone will be questioned by angels about their religion, prophet, and Lord.\u00a0 The grave is a garden of paradise or a pit of hell; angels of mercy visit the souls of believers and angels of punishment come for the unbelievers.<\/p>\n
Resurrection will be preceded by the end of the world.\u00a0 God will command a magnificent angel to blow the Horn.\u00a0 At its first blowing, all the inhabitants of the heavens and the earth will fall unconscious, except those spared by God.\u00a0 The earth will be flattened, the mountains turned into dust, the sky will crack, planets will be dispersed, and the graves overturned.<\/p>\n
People will be resurrected into their original physical bodies from their graves, thereby entering the third and final phase of life.\u00a0 The Horn will blow again upon which people will rise up from their graves, resurrected!<\/p>\n
God will gather all humans, believers and the impious, jinns, demons, even wild animals.\u00a0 It will be a universal gathering.\u00a0 The angels will drive all human beings naked, uncircumcised, and bare-footed to the Great Plain of Gathering.\u00a0 People will stand in wait for judgment and humanity will sweat in agony.\u00a0 The righteous will be sheltered under the shade of God\u2019s Magnificent Throne.<\/p>\n
When the condition becomes unbearable, people will request the prophets and the messengers to intercede with God on their behalf to save them from distress.<\/p>\n
The balances will be set and the deeds of men will be weighed.\u00a0 Disclosure of the Records of the deeds performed in this life will follow.\u00a0 The one who will receive his record in his right hand will have an easy reckoning.\u00a0 He will happily return to his family.\u00a0 However, the person who will receive his record in his left hand would wish he were dead as he will be thrown into the Fire.\u00a0 He will be full of regrets and will wish that he were not handed his Record or he had not known it.<\/p>\n
Then God will judge His creation.\u00a0 They will be reminded and informed of their good deeds and sins.\u00a0 The faithful will acknowledge their failings and be forgiven.\u00a0 The disbelievers will have no good deeds to declare because an unbeliever is rewarded for them in this life.\u00a0 Some scholars are of the opinion that the punishment of an unbeliever may be reduced in lieu of his good deeds, except the punishment of the great sin of disbelief.<\/p>\n
The Siraat<\/em> is a bridge that will be established over Hell extending to Paradise.\u00a0 Anyone who is steadfast on God\u2019s religion in this life will find it easy to pass it.<\/p>\n Paradise and Hell will be the final dwelling places for the faithful and the damned after the Last Judgment.\u00a0 They are real and eternal.\u00a0 The bliss of the people of Paradise shall never end and the punishment of unbelievers condemned to Hell shall never cease.\u00a0 Unlike a pass-fail system in some other belief-systems, the Islamic view is more sophisticated and conveys a higher level of divine justice.\u00a0 This can be seen in two ways.\u00a0 First, some believers may suffer in Hell for unrepented, cardinal sins.\u00a0 Second, both Paradise and Hell have levels.<\/p>\n Paradise is the eternal garden of physical pleasures and spiritual delights.\u00a0 Suffering will be absent and bodily desires will be satisfied.\u00a0 All wishes will be met.\u00a0 Palaces, servants, riches, streams of wine, milk and honey, pleasant fragrances, soothing voices, pure partners for intimacy; a person will never get bored or have enough!<\/p>\n The greatest bliss, though, will be the vision of their Lord of which the unbelievers will be deprived.<\/p>\n Hell is an infernal place of punishment for unbelievers and purification for sinful believers.\u00a0 Torture and punishment: for the body and the soul: burning by fire, boiling water to drink, scalding food to eat, chains, and choking columns of fire.\u00a0 Unbelievers will be eternally damned to it, whereas sinful believers will eventually be taken out of Hell and enter Paradise.<\/p>\n Paradise is for those who worshipped God alone, believed and followed their prophet, and lived moral lives according to the teachings of scripture.<\/p>\n Hell will be the final dwelling place of those who denied God, worshipped other beings besides God, rejected the call of the prophets, and lead sinful, unrepentant lives.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Belief in Life after Death www.islamreligion.com website Everyone is scared of dying and rightly so.\u00a0 The uncertainty of what lies beyond is frightening. It may be that of all religions, Islam, provides the most...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[79,299,337,343],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-topics","category-about-islam","tag-belief","tag-day-of-judgment","tag-death","tag-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}