Week 8
March 29, 2006
IDSA at UTD
Topic: “Life after Death”
Summary: proofs of existence for life after death, physical
and spiritual afterlife, death of an individual and that of the world (the
doomsday), judgment followed by reward or punishment in afterlife.
10:56 It
is He Who giveth life and who taketh it, and to Him shall ye all be brought
back.
30:40
Allah is He Who created you and then sustained you, then causeth you to die,
then giveth life to you again. Is there any of your (so-called) partners (of
Allah) that doeth aught of that? Praised and exalted be He above what they
associate (with Him)!
6:61 He is
the Omnipotent over His slaves. He sendeth guardians over you until, when death
cometh unto one of you, Our messengers receive him, and they neglect not.
21:35
Every human being is bound to taste death; and We test you [all] through the
bad and the good [things of life] by way of trial: and unto Us you all must
return.
32:11 Say:
“[One day,] the angel of death who has been given charge of you will gather
you, and then unto your Sustainer you will be brought back.”
36:12
Verily, We shall indeed bring the dead back to life; and We shall record
whatever [deeds] they have sent ahead, and the traces [of good and evil] which
they have left behind: for of all things do We take account in a record clear.
44:56 They taste not death therein, save the first death.
7:187 They
ask thee of the (destined) Hour, when will it come to port. Say: Knowledge
thereof is with my Lord only. He alone will manifest it at its proper time. It
is heavy in the heavens and the earth. It cometh not to you save unawares. They
question thee as if thou couldst be well informed thereof. Say: Knowledge
thereof is with Allah only, but most of mankind know not.
15:85 We
created not the heavens and the earth and all that is between them save with
truth, and lo! the Hour is surely coming. So forgive, O Muhammad, with a
gracious forgiveness.
42:17
Allah it is who hath revealed the Scripture with truth, and the Balance. How
canst thou know? It may be that the Hour is nigh.
16:77 And
, God's [alone] is the knowledge of the hidden reality of the heavens and the
earth. And so, the advent of the Last Hour will but manifest itself [in a single
moment,] like the twinkling of an eye, or closer still: for, behold, God has
the power to will anything.
20:15
"Behold, [although] I have willed to keep it hidden, the Last Hour is
bound to come, so that every human being may be recompensed in accordance with
what he strove for [in life].
22:1-2 O
men! Be conscious of your Sustainer: for, verily the violent convulsion of the
Last Hour will be an awesome thing! On the Day when you behold it, every woman
that feeds a child at her breast will utterly forget her nursling, and every
woman heavy with child will bring forth her burden [before her time]; and it
will seem to thee that all mankind is drunk, although they will not be drunk -
but vehement will be [their dread of] God’s chastisement.
22:7 And
[know, O man] that the Last Hour is bound to come, beyond any doubt, and that
God will [indeed] resurrect all who are in their graves.
99:1-8
When the Earth quakes with her [last] mighty quaking, and [when] the earth
yields up her burdens, and man cries out, "What has happened to her?"
on that Day will she recount all her tidings, as thy Sustainer will have
inspired her to do! On that Day will all men come forward, cut off from one
another, to be shown their [past] deeds. And so, he who shall have done an atom's
weight of good, shall behold it; and he who shall have done an atom's weight of
evil, shall behold it.
30:19 He
bringeth forth the living from the dead, and He bringeth forth the dead from
the living, and He reviveth the earth after her death. And even so will ye be
brought forth.
43:11 And
who sendeth down water from the sky in (due) measure, and We revive a dead land
therewith. Even so will ye be brought forth.
7:57 And
He it is who sends forth the winds as a glad tiding of His coming grace-so
that, when they have brought heavy clouds, We may drive them towards dead land
and cause thereby water to descend; and by this means do We cause all manner of
fruit to come forth. Even thus shall We cause the dead to come forth: [and
this] you ought to keep in mind.
2:28 How
disbelieve ye in Allah when ye were dead and He gave life to you! Then he will
give you death, then life again, and then unto Him ye will return.
45:32 for
when it was said, ‘Behold, God’s promise always comes true, and there can be no
doubt about [the coming of] the Last Hour’ - you would answer, ‘We do not know
what that Last Hour may be: we think it is no more than an empty guess, and
[so] we are by no means convinced!’”
4:87
Allah, There is no god but He; of a surety He will gather you together against
the Day of Judgment, about which there is no doubt. And whose word can be truer
than Allah's?
31:28 Your
creation and your raising (from the dead) are only as (the creation and the
raising of) a single soul. Lo! Allah is Hearer, Knower.
30:50
Behold, then, [O man,] these signs of God’s grace - how He gives life to the
earth after it had been lifeless! Verily, this Selfsame [God] is indeed the One
that can bring the dead back to life: for He has the power to will anything!
41:39 For
among His signs is this: thou seest the earth lying desolate - and lo! when We
send down water upon it, it stirs and swells [with life]! Verily, He who brings
it to life can surely give life to the dead [of heart as well]: for, behold, He
is Able to do all things.
36:78-79
And [now] he [argues about Us, and] thinks of Us in terms of comparison, and is
oblivious of how he himself was created! [And so] he says, “Who could give life
to bones that have crumbled to dust?” Say: “He who brought them into being in
the first instance will give them life [once again], seeing that He has full
knowledge of every act of creation”.
40:68 It
is He Who gives Life and Death; and when He decides upon an affair, He says to
it, "Be", and it is.
46:33 Are,
then, they [who deny the life to come] not aware that God, who has created the
heavens and the earth and never been wearied by their creation, has [also] the
power to bring the dead back to life? Yea, verily, He has the power to will
anything!
30:25 And
among His Signs is this, that heaven and earth stand by His Command: then when
He calls you, by a single call, from the earth, behold, ye (straightway) come
forth.
30:27 It
is He Who begins (the process of) creation; then repeats it; and for Him it is
most easy. To Him belongs the loftiest similitude (we can think of) in the
heavens and the earth: for He is Exalted in Might, full of wisdom.
45:26 Say
(unto them, O Muhammad): Allah giveth life to you, then causeth you to die,
then gathereth you unto the Day of Resurrection whereof there is no doubt. But
most of mankind know not.
30:14-16
And when the Last Hour dawns - on that Day will all [men] be sorted out: as for
those who attained to faith and did righteous deeds, they shall be made happy
in a garden of delight; 30:16 but as for those who refused to acknowledge the
truth and gave the lie to Our messages - and (thus) to the announcement of a
life to come - they will be given over to suffering.
34:3 Those
who disbelieve say: The Hour will never come unto us. Say : Nay, by my Lord,
but it is coming unto you surely. (He is) the Knower of the Unseen. Not an
atom's weight, or less than that or greater, escapeth Him in the heavens or in
the earth, but it is in a clear Record.
82:13-15
As for the Righteous, they will be in bliss; And the Wicked - they will be in
the Fire, Which they will enter on the Day of Judgment.