CHAPTER -FOUR :RESURRECTION ANDTHE LIFE AFTER DEATH
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43WITHOUT RESURRECTION ,LIFE IS VOID
WE BELIEVE that all men and women will beraised up in a certain day after death. They all will be judged, and those who are good and virtuous shall live in PARADISE( THE GARDEN OF BLISS ), and the sinners will join the fire in Hell.
" Allah, there is no God but He. Of a surety He willgather you all together in the resurrection day about which there is no doubt, and whose word can be truer than Allah?"
THE HOLY QURN S 4: 78
" As for he who transgressed and chose this presentlife, his abode will be Hell Fire. And as for those who feared to stand before their LORD, and restrained their souls from lusts,( LOW DESIRES )their abode
will be PARADISE ."
THE HOLY QURN S 97: 73 14
WE BELIEVE that this world is only a bridge thatman should pass it over so as to join an eternall life; or in other word it may be a farm, to sow here and to harvest in hereafter or else it may be taken as a market here to provide for the next life to come.
About this life of ours, Emam Ali says:" This WORLD is a place of truth for him whoconfronts it with truthfulness. It is a house( means )forbeing FREE OF WANT, for him who gathers provisions from it and stores for his next life. It is aplace of awareness for him who takes advice from it. Itis the mosque of the friends of God, a place of worshipfor the angels; where God's inspirations is sent down, and a trade market for God's friends."
53THE REASONS FOR THE RESURRECTION ARE CLEARENOUGH
WE BELIEVE that the reasons to prove theresurrection are very clear, because, it can easily be
seen that this mortal life cannot be a reasonableob ject, and the final goal for such a creation; i. e. to come and live here for a short periode, living with immense hardships and difficulties, and then end to nothing or to some dusts! Is that what is meant by our complex creation?
" Do you think that we have created you for nothing,( IN JEST )and that you would not return to us?"
THE HOLY QURN S 32: 511
Secondly; in this world the evildoers are usually inone line with the beneficients and some times higher; a none equity which dosn't read with the great justice of God. So there must be somewhere or some how to distinct bad from good and false from truth.
" Do the evildores think that they are equal in OURSIGHT, with the believer who do good works, so that their lives and deaths are alike? How bad they judge!
THE HOLY QURN S 54: 12
Thirdly; the Infinite Mercy of GodNECESSITATES that His Mercy and Bounties come not to an end by man's death.
" Say to who belongs all that heavens and the earthcontain? say to Allah; He has inscribed Mercy for Himself and willl gather you all on the day of resurrection. That day is sure to come. Those who have lost their own souls are those who will never have faith."
THE HOLY QURN S 6: 21
Qurn, addressing those who doubt about theresurrection asks: How do they doubt the Power of the Almighty to raise the dead? while they already have seen God's first creation, BEGINNING to make them out of the soil:
" Were we weary with the first creation, that theyshould be in confused doubt about a new creation?"
THE HOLY QURN S 05: 51
" And he( the unbeliever )makes comparison for Us, and forgets his own creation. He asks: Who will give life to the rotten bones? ' say: He who created them for the first time will give them life again, He has knowledge of every creature.
THE HOLY QURN S 63: 87 97
Besides that; is the creation of man impotant incomparison with that of heavens and the earth? He who was able to create such a vast, and strange world, is He not able to raise the dead?
" Do they not see that Allah who created the heavensand the earth, and was not wearied by their creation can raise the dead to life? Yes, He Has Power to do everything."
THE HOLY QURN S 64: 33
63RESURRECTION IS CORPOREAL
WE BELIEVE that not only the SOUL, but thesoul and body of man both will be raised to life in resurrection. This is because whatever is done here is done by both the soul and the body; so the reward too should be given to both of them.
Most of the Quranic verses which rafer toresurrection have put the stress on corporeal raise ofthe body as well as the soul.
In answer to the amazed questioner, who asked theprophet: who raises the dead? Quran answers: He
who gave them their first creation can easily raise themonce again.
" Does man think that we cannot assemble his bonesonce again? Yes! We are able to remould the very Tips of his fingers."
THE HOLY QURN S 57: 3 4
Such verses also denote that the resurrection iscorporeal too. There are also verses that report of getting out of our graves, proving the raise to be bodily
73THE STRANGE WORLD ,AFTER DEATH
WE BELIEVE that whatever is going on afterdeath, and in the PARADISE HELL, is far abovewhat we see here!
" No one knows what delights of the eyes,( THE REALBLISS THAT GIVES MOST SATISFACTION )are kept hidden for them as a reward for their good deeds."
THE HOLY QURN S 23: 71
Through a famous tradition God says:" I have prepared for my virtuous servants,