THE LIFE AFTER DEATH (TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE)

                                      (AFTER DEATH)

                   TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE

                           I SIMPLYOR NOT TO BELIEVE THAT

                                 SOME PART OF THE HUMAN

                          SELF OR SOUL IS NOT

                                    SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF

                          SPACE AND TIME

                      THERE ARE STILL MANY PEOPLE WHO FIND IT DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE IN THE LIFE AFTER DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION. FOR THEM, THIS LIFE IS THE ONLY LIFE AND THERE IS NOTHIG AFTER DEATH. IRONICALLY, HOLDERS OF SUCH BELIEFS TRY TO JUSTIFY THIS ON THE BASIS OF COMMON SENSE AND SCIENCE. IN THIS REGARD THEY CONSIDER THEMSELVES MORE PROGRESSIVE AND FORWARD LOOKING THAN OTHERS, AND GIVE THOSE WHO DO NOT SHARE THEIR VIEWS, NAMES SUCH AS OLD FASHIONED, TRADITIONALISTS AND BACKWARD LOOKING PEOPLE. ODDLY ENOUGH, THEY NEVER REALIZE THAT DISBELIEF IS AS OLD AS THE BELIEF ITSELF. EVEN AT THE TIME WHEN THE HOLY QURAN WAS BEING REVEALED, THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO DID NOT BELIEVE IN LIFE-AFTER-DEATH. THEIR ARGUMENTS WERE ALSO SIMILAR TO THOSE OF THE SO CALLED PROGRESSIVE MINDS OF TODAY. THE HOLY QURAN SAYS :

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                 THE CHIEF OF THE PEOPLE DO NOT

                  BELIEVE AND DENY THE THE LIFE TO COME

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                 THEY SAY,

                 THERE IS NO OTHER LIFE BUT THIS WORLD'S

                 WE DIE AND WE LIVE

                 AND THERE IS NO RISING FOR US

                 FROM THE DEAD

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                 THE HOLY QURAN TELLS THAT DISBEILIEF IN THE LIFE-AFTER-DEATH HAS BEEN FASHIONABLE WITH THE RICH EXPLOITING CLASSES IN SOCIETY. THEY NEITHER FEAR ALLAH THEMSELVES, NOR DO THEY LIKE OTHER TO FOLLOW THE RIGHT PATH. WITHOUT ANY PROOF, THEY KEEP INSISTING UPON THEIR IGNORANCE AND WISH OTHERS TO FOLLOW THEM IN THEIR DARKNESS.

                    ON THE OTHER HAND, A BELIEVER HAS MUCH MORE SOUND GROUND TO SUPPORT THE BELIEF THAT DEATH IS NOT THE END OF THE STORY OF LIFE. EVEN THE SIMPLE LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT TELLS HIM THAT THERE CAN NEVER BE AN, ABSOLUTE END TO ANYTHING. HOW CAN THAT BE WITH THE MAN, WHO IS THE MOST SUPREME OF CREATIONS IN THE UNIVERSE, THAT HE IS PERISHED FOR EVER AFTER HIS PHYSICAL DEATH.

                   WHAT WE CALL LIFE-AFTER-DEATH IS IN FACT THE CONTINUATION OF THE PRESENT ORDER OF EXISTENCE. IN A NEW DOMINION IT IS A WORLD AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE PRESENT WORLD. EXISTENCE CONTINUES FOR EVER, THOUGH ITS SHAPE AND STYLE KEEY VARYING THROUGH TIME AND SPACE.

                        ACCORDINGLY THE EXISTENCE OF THE PRE-UNIVERSE WAS ALSO NOT THE STATE OF "NOTHINGNESS". AND EVEN IF, WE MAY CALL IT "NOTHINGNESS". IT HAS NEVER BEEN DEVOID OF EXISTENCE. THE ENERGY BEINGS, SUCH AS JINNIS, AND ANGELS, MIGHT HAVE BEEN BORN EVEN BEFORE MATERIAL UNIVERSE. SOULS ARE ALSO A KIND OF ENERGY BEINGS WHICH WERE THERE BEFORE THEIR MANIFESTATION ON THE EARTH, AND DO NOT DIE AFTER THE BODILY DEATH. IN WORDS OF AISHA ABDUL RAHMAN. IN THE PICTURE WHICH WE HAVE OF CREATION (FROM THE QURAN) FIRST THERE WAS THE ANA, THE GREAT MIST OR CLOUD. THERE WAS NO ATMOSPHERE ABOVE OR BELOW IT. THEN THE LIGHT OF HIS ESSENCE FLOWED OVER IT AND THE MIST BECAME DYED I.E. PERMEATED WITH LIGHT. THEN THE FORMS OF ANGELS WHO WANDERED LONE APPEARED IT. THESE ANGELS ARE IN CONSTANT WONDER MOVEMENT. 

                   THIS IS THE NATURE OF THEIR ENERGY. THE BEGINNING OF CREATION IS CHARACTERISED BY THEIR INTENSE MOVEMENT. THE PHYSICSTS VIEW IT, HIGH ENERGY PARTICLES AND RELIGION VIEWS IT AS ANGELS, MOVING INTENSELY AS THEY EXPERIENCE THE MAJESTY OF THEIR DEITY".

AFTER OUR DEATH (INTRODUCTION)

 

                                 

                                     LIFE AFTER DEATH

                          AND UNTO ALLAH BELONGS,

                         THE UNSEEN OF THE HEAVENS

                         AND THE EARTH.

                         AND THE MATTER OF THE HOUR (OF DOOMSDAY) IS,

                         BUT AS THE TWINKLING OF THE EYE,

                        OR IT IS NEARER STILL,

                         LO, ALLAH IS ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS".

                     ALL THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD AND ALSO MODERN SCIENCE, BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD IS GOING TO END, BUT THE QUESTION REMAINS, "HOW? WHEN WE LOOK AROUND AT TEH VAST SKIES STUDDED WITH STARS WE CANNOT REMAIN ASKING, WHAT WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN TO ALL THIS?  IN THE HEART OF OUR HEARTS, EACH ONE OF US IS ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT HIS OWN EXISTENCE. BELIEVERS AND ATHEISTS ARE EQUALLY BOTHERED BY THIS THOUGHTS. IN DEATH THE THROUGH THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD OF OURS? IS THERE ANY PURPOSE IN THE UNIVERSE?

                     THESE ARE INDEED VERY PERTINENT QUESTIONS, BUT VERY FEW KNOW DEFINITE ANSWER TO ANY ONE OF THEM. RELIGION AND SCIENCE ARE BOTH DIVIDED ON THE ISSUE. IF THE FORMER  HAS MIXED IT WITH MYTHOLOGY, THE LATTER HAS ADULTRATED IT WITH DOUBT. IN THIS DOMAIN SCIENCE AND RELIGON HAVE DIFFERED MORE THAN ANY OTHER THING, ALTHOUGH BOTH CLAIM TO SEEK "THE TRUTH". THIS CHAPTER IS AN ATTEMPT TO BRING THEM CLOSER WITH REFERENCE TO THE HOLY QURAN. IT IS AN EFFORT TO PROBE INTO THE UNKNOWN, WITH THE HOPE TO ALTEAST PARTIALLY SATISFY THE CURIOSITY TO KNOW ABOUT THE ULTIMATE FATE OF OURSELVES AND THAT OF THE UNIVERSE.OUR THIS IS BASED UPON OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE HOLY QURAN, THE "LAST AND THE LATEST DIVINE GUIDANCE" REVEALED ON PROPHET MUHAMMED (PEACE BE UPON HIM) FOURTEEN CENTURIES AGO, AND THE CURRENT SCIENTIFIC THOUGHTS ON THIS SUBJECT.

                          IN THE OLDEN TIMES, GREEKS HAD ADVANCED THE HYPOTHESIS ABOUT THE ETERNITY OF THE UNIVERSE, MEANING IT HAD ALWAYS EXISTED LIKE IT. THIS NOTION, EVEN NOW PERSISTS AMONG SOME OF THE LEADING ASTRONOMERS, WHO BELIEVE IN THE CONTINUITY OF THE UNIVERSE.

                        ACCORDING TO THIS THEORY (1,18) MATTER CREATES MORE MATTER, AND THE COSMOS GOES ON EXPANDING FOR EVER. THEY SEE NO BEGINNING OR THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.

                               ON THIS, THE CURRENT POPULAR SCIENTIFIC VIEWS WERE SUMMED UP IN GENEVA, IN A CONFERENCE OF COSMOLOGISTS AND PARTICLE PHYSICISTS HELD IN NOVEMBER 1983, "IT WAS SAID, WHAT WE LOOK BACK ON AS THE "BIG BANG" WAS A TIME OF VERY HIGH BUT NOT INFINITE DENSITY, A STATE TO WHICH THE UNIVERSE PHASE IS OVER. OUT OF THE HIGH DENSITY PHASE, IT WILL BE BORN AGAIN. (WITH AN EXPONENTIAL INFLATION PHASE), TO REPEAT THE CYCLE AND INFINITIUM.(2)

                     AS REGARDS THE VARIOUS RELIGIONS, ACCORDING TO PAUL DAVIES, THEY DIFFER GREATLY IN THEIR CONCEPTION OF THE MOMENT AND MANNER OF THIS COSMIC DEMISE. SOME WARN OF AN IMMINENT CATASTROPHE, OF A WORLD OVERTAKEN BY AN APOCALYPTIC DESTRUCTION WHEN THE SINFUL WILL BE JUDGED STERNLY. OTHERS TEACH ABOUT A FORTHCOMING KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WHICH WILL REPLACE THE HARSH AND UNCERTAIN WORLD  WE NOW LIVE IN. HINDUISM AND BUDDAISM INCLINE TOWARD A CYCLIC SYSTEM IN WHICH THE END OF THE CURRENT WORLD FOLLOWS WITH THE REBIRTH OF ANOTHER WORLD.

                          HOWEVER , ON THIS SUBJECT THE GUIDANCE RECEIVED FROM THE HOLY QURAN IS MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND UNPARRALLELED IN CLARITY. FIRST OF ALL, IT TELLS THAT THE UNIVERSE HAD A BEGINNING, IT IS A CREATED WORK IN TIME AND SPACE, WITH A PURPOSE, AND ALLAH IS ITS ORGININATOR, WHO SAYS IN THE QURAN:

                     "WE  HAVE NOT CREATED THE 

                       HEAVENS AND THE EARTH,

                      AND ALL THAT LIES BETWEEN THEM

                      BUT WITH A PURPOSE,

                     ACCORDING TO A PRE-FIXED MEASUREMENT".