Prove Life after Death
Mu' meneen Brothers
and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa
Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be
upon all of you)
One of our
brothers/sisters has asked this question:
well i have a lot
of muslim friends and i have a lot of questions
but to ask them
directly they may feel offended so i take the opportunity to ask you,one of my
friends recommeneded this site, life after death if this is the life v live and
after death the body is buried or burned,then what?
here on earth as u
sow u reap do good or bad it comes around.
we are all
computers with one electric supply from the one and only almighty
god,rabb,bhagwan or whatever u name thy.when one computers life get`s over the
power supply is cut of so the computer is dicarded and the electrucity returns
2 the origin.
that`s what my
ittelect says but could you please explain or prove the after life death
belief?
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Answer:
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none
can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.
We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai, nobody!) worthy of
worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His
slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Dear Sister, two questions have
intrigued man since his inception:
How did the Universe and
everything in existence come into being, and,
What will happen after one’s
death.
Man has tried to use his intellect
and has tried to determine the answers to these two all-important
questions. Some, in their ignorance,
have concluded that everything in the Universe came into existence by chance or
accident, while others have said that
man originated by evolution through apes!, etc. Regarding the issue of life after death, some say that the soul comes back to a
different body after death, while
others say that man has to pay for his good or evil deeds in his own lifetime,
while still others state that there is no such thing as an afterlife at all,
etc. All these are nothing but guesses,
whims and conjectures of man in his ignorance;
for only the One Who Created everything in existence has a Right to
Declare its Origin and its End!
These questions have been
answered time and time again in the Glorious Quran by the One Who Created
everything in existence, for the people
of yore asked these very same and exact questions to the Prophets who brought
The Creator’s Message to mankind. We
could very well quote several verses and passages from the Glorious Quran which
directly answer these questions to perfection;
and we will prove beyond any doubt that the answers that man has tried
to determine through his intellect are nothing but guesses and conjectures and
far away from the Truth!
But first allow us to respond to
the points you have made in your letter:
Q-1: well i have a lot of muslim
friends and i have a lot of questions but to ask them directly they may feel
offended
Beloved sister, Islam is the name of a religion and way of
life where one is absolutely encouraged to ask and demand an answer for
absolutely anything in the Universe…..be it social, economics, spiritual,
relationships, good and evil, law, governance, the beginning of creation, or its end. There is a logical answer for absolutely everything that effects
man and his life in this way of life called ‘Al-Islam’. Any person,
whether he is a believer or not, has a right to ask about absolutely
anything in Islam; and the scholar has
a duty to answer and address each of these questions with wisdom and extreme
politeness, without being offended in
the least.
Islam is not a religion which
forces mankind to blindly believe in a faith or doctrine; but encourages man to use his intellect and
ponder over each and every marvel and nature of creation and recognize their
Creator through these fantastic and indisputable Signs. Thus my beloved sister in humanity, never ever hesitate to ask any question
regarding the deen of Islam; and if the
person is offended ever so slightly,
know for sure, that he is
offended only because of his ignorance!
Your Question: if this is the
life v live and after death the body is buried or burned,then what?
The Creator Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 36 Surah Yaa-Seen verses 77-83:
77 Doth not man see that it is We Who
created Him from sperm? Yet behold! He
(stands forth) as an open adversary!
78 And he makes comparisons for Us, and
forgets his own (Origin and) Creation: He
says "Who can give life to (dry) bones and decomposed ones (at
that)?"
79 Say "He will give them life, Who created them for the first
time! For He is well-versed in every
kind of creation!
80 "The same Who produces for you fire
out of the green tree when behold! Ye kindle therewith (your own fires)!
81 "Is not He Who created the heavens
and the earth able to create the like thereof?" Yea indeed! For He is the Creator Supreme of Skill, and
Knowledge (Infinite)!
82 Verily when He intends a thing, His
command is "Be" and it is!
83 So glory to Him in Whose hands is the
Dominion of all things; and to Him will ye be all brought back.
The Creator Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 17 Surah Israa verses 49-52:
49 They say: "What!
when we are reduced to bones and dust should we really be raised up (to be) a
new creation?"
50 Say: "(Nay!) be
ye stones, or iron;
51 Or created matter
which in your minds is hardest (to be raised up)--(yet shall ye be raised
up)!" Then will they say:
"Who will cause us to return?"
Say: "He Who created you first!" Then will they
wag their heads towards thee and say "When will that be?" Say "Maybe it will be quite soon!”
52
"It will be on a Day when He will
call you and ye will answer (His call) with (words of) His praise, and ye will think that ye tarried but a
little while!"
Your question is asked and
answered to perfection by the Creator Himself in the Glorious Quran; and His answer is “He will give them life, Who created them
for the first time!”
When the Creator can create man
when he was absolutely nothing, can He
not create life again for a second time?
And if one uses even simple
common-sense, he will realize that if
one creates a product for the first time,
it is always easier to re-create it again!
Your Question: here on earth as
u sow u reap do good or bad it comes around.
The One Who Created mankind
declares that the life on earth is only a test and a place for deeds; and the Hereafter is a place where everyone
will be gathered and each deed will be weighed and the results of the test will
be declared by the One Who is All-Aware of each and every thing!
If one accepts that the life on
this earth is the beginning and end of all;
then a lot of questions remain unanswered.
There are many people who do a
lot of good in this world, but man just does not have the capacity or ability
or time to reward him in full for his deeds!
People like Mother Teresa,
Mahatma Gandhi, etc. spent their lives for the good of mankind; what possible reward can man give them for
their services?
A man builds an orphanage to
serve the orphans, or a free hospital
to serve the poor, or a free school to
educate the poor, etc.; and in due
course his life is cut short by death,
but the good deeds that he did continue to help and serve the less
fortunate. What about the rewards for
such a person?
There are some people who do a
lot of evil, and even murder thousands
and millions of people without remorse!
People like Hitler, Mussolini, Areil Sharon, etc. have murdered thousands,
if not millions of innocent people! What
possible punishment can man give to them which will recompense them for their
evil deeds; and what justice did the
innocent people get, whose life was cut
short because of the brutality of these evil people?
There are people who usurp the
property of orphans, or abuse innocent children and women, or cheat and steal the property of people
and never get caught! Who and when the
rights of these innocent people be recompensed, and who and when will the evil-doers be punished?
Life is just too short and
narrow for one to be recompensed for his deeds, be they good or evil! If
a man murders one innocent person, the
penalty a righteous society extracts from him is death; and if the man murders a hundred innocent
people, man is limited in his ability
to punish the evil-doer in full,
and the maximum he can do is
still take his life only once! Even in
developed countries, it is seen that
sometimes the Judge is so powerless in his capacity that he helplessly punishes
such a person to five or ten life sentences,
or 300-500 years, when he
himself knows that no man lives to that age!
Similarly, Mother Teresa worked selflessly all her life
to establish an institution to serve the ones who were discarded by
society, and the services she created
are still being used to serve the less fortunate even after her death! Man may bestow upon her the titles of
Person of the Century, or a Nobel Peace Prize, or even give her a sainthood;
but is a simple plaque or title truly a due reward for a lifetime of selfless
service?
Thus the idiom ‘what goes around
comes around’ may sound good; but is
logically not plausible nor is an act of justice at all! Simple logic and common sense states that
there must be a Day, where everything
in existence must come to a standstill,
and every single deed of every single person must be weighed according
to its virtue or sin; and every good
doer must be rewarded in full and every evil doer must be punished in
full! Then and only then can true and
full Justice be served!
And that is precisely what the
Creator advocates in the Glorious Quran;
and He has determined that Day is the Day of Accounting, where everything in existence will come to
an end, and every person will be
brought forth in the Presence and in the Just Court of the All-Knowing
Creator; where no innocent man will be
wronged in the least, and no evil doer
will go unpunished! Then, and only then, True Justice can and will be served!
The Creator Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 99 Surah Zalzalah verses 6-8:
6 On that Day will men
proceed in companies sorted out, to be shown the Deeds that they (had done in
the life on earth).
7 Then anyone who has
done an atom's weight of good, shall see it!
8 And anyone who has
done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it.
The Creator Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 101 Surah Al-Qariah verses 1-11:
1 The (Day) of Noise
and Clamour:
2 What is the (Day) of
Noise and Clamour?
3 And what will explain
to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?
4 (It is) a Day whereon
Men will be like moths scattered about
5 And the mountains
will be like carded wool.
6 Then he whose balance
(of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
7 Will be in a life of
good pleasure and satisfaction.
8 But he whose balance
(of good deeds) will be (found) light,
9 Will have his home in
a (bottomless) pit.
10 And what will explain
to thee what this is?
11 (It is) a Fire,
Blazing fiercely!
Your Question: we are all
computers with one electric supply from the one and only almighty
god,rabb,bhagwan or whatever u name thy.when one computers life get`s over the
power supply is cut of so the computer is dicarded and the electrucity returns
2 the origin. that`s what my ittelect says but could you please explain or
prove the after life death belief?
Indeed, one may call upon Him by
any good name, for He Says that all the
Good Names belong to Him!
Allah Says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 17 Surah Israa verse 110:Say: "Call upon
Allah, or call upon ‘Rahmaan’: by whatever name ye call upon Him (it is
well): for to Him belong the Most
Beautiful Names.”
Allah Says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 7 Surah Aaraaf verse 180:The Most Beautiful
Names belong to Allah: so call on Him by them
Indeed, man and everything that
exists between the heavens and the earth is the creation of the One and Only
All-Mighty Lord; and each and
everything in creation has a term determined for it by its One and Only
Creator! And at the end of this term, everything will return to his Creator and
the result of his test will be declared!
The one who passes the test in accordance with the syllabus laid down by
his Creator, will be rewarded in
full; and the one who fails the test in
accordance with the syllabus laid down by his Creator, will be punished in full; and no one will be wronged in the
least!
The Creator Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale-Imraan verse 185: Every soul shall have a
taste of death: and only on the Day of Judgment shall you be paid your full
recompense. Only he who is saved far
from the fire and admitted to the Garden will have attained the object (of
life): for the life of this world is
but goods and chattels of deception.
The Creator Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 29 Surah Ankabut verses 52-58:
52 Say: "Enough is
Allah for a Witness between me and you:
He knows what is in the heavens and on earth. And it is those who believe in vanities and reject Allah that
will perish (in the end)."
53 They ask thee to
hasten on the Punishment (for them): had it not been for a term (of respite)
appointed, the Punishment would certainly have come to them: and it will
certainly reach them of a sudden while they perceive not!
54 They ask thee to
hasten on the Punishment but of a surety Hell will encompass the rejecters of
Faith!
55 On the Day that the
Punishment shall cover them from above them, and from below them, and (a Voice)
shall say: "Taste ye (the fruits) of your deeds!"
56 O My servants who
believe! Truly spacious is My Earth:
therefore serve ye Me (and Me alone)!
57 Every soul shall have
a taste of death: in the end to Us shall ye be brought back.
58 But those who believe
and work deeds of righteousness to them shall We give a Home in Heaven lofty
mansions beneath which flow rivers--to dwell therein for aye; an excellent
reward for those who do (good)!
My beloved sister in humanity,
one of the main articles of faith in Islam is the belief in the concept of life
after death, and this concept of the Hereafter, Paradise and Hell, is one of
the main themes of the Message of the Glorious Quran. There are 114 Surahs or Chapters in the Glorious Quran, and almost all of them explain this concept
in detail and to perfection. We invite
you to read the Glorious Quran in a language you understand best to truly
comprehend this concept of life after death,
in the very words of the One Who is the Creator of everything in
existence; for who can explain this
fact better than the One Who will,
without an iota of a doubt, bring this theory to reality!
The Creator says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 14 Surah Ibrahim verses 1-2:This is a Book (Quran) which
We have sent down to you (O Prophet) that you may bring mankind, by the help of their Lord, out of the dark ways (of ignorance) into the
Light (of knowledge), to the Way of
that Lord, Who is All Powerful, and inherently All Praiseworthy, and the Owner of whatever is in the heavens
and the earth.
The Creator says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 16 Surah Nahl verse 44:We sent the former Messengers
with clear signs and Books, and now We
have sent the Admonition (Quran) to you (O Prophet), so that you should make plain and explain to the people the
teachings of the Book, which has been
sent for them, and so they should (themselves) ponder over it.
The Creator says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 17 Surah Bani Israel verses 9-10:Indeed, the Quran shows that way which is perfectly
straight. To those who believe in it
and do good deeds, it gives the good
news that there is a great reward for them;
and to those who do not believe in the Hereafter, it gives the warning that a painful torment
has been made ready for them.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in
Islam,
Burhan
