[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
[Qur'an Translation] "Nay! When it comes up to the throat,
And it is said: Who will be a magician?
And he is sure that it is the (hour of) parting
And affliction is combined with affliction; To your Lord on that day shall be the driving." (75:26-30)
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
What's More Real: Life or Death?
"Death" is a cold word. The end of a life,
the last passage.
The zero point.
A last look at the world.
The end of connection.
A journey from the end to the eternity.
The giving back of the gift to its Owner.
Let's say, time to go to a world of the unknown.
How nice it was said by Yunus:
"Allah knows, the life is a guest to this body.
Once, it will be gone. Like a bird leaves its cage."
Everything ends. Everything gets born, grows up end dies.
As if an invisible hand makes it off and the life ends.
In such a way we live and waste our lives,
as if we would surely wake up and begin the day as if we'd never die.
We live our currently moment in the hope to the future.
Day after day, it becomes weeks, months, years and eventually the whole life.
Some of us are after their dreams for the entire lifetime.
And some of us never mind the future in pleasure.
And some are so hastily, like they want everything.
We get lost after wealth and celebrity.
How ironic? The older we are, the faster is the time.
The more rich, the less time.
The countdown began already, until you understand the true value of life.
Everything turns up and consumes what else is left.
Result: every way is going to its end.
And the truth: even if you forget the death, it doesn't!
Our holy Lord says in the Sura of Al-Kahf and Al-Ankabut:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And set forth to them parable of the life of this world:
like water which We send down from the cloud so the herbage of the earth becomes tangled on account of it,
then it becomes dry broken into pieces which the winds scatter;
and Allah is the holder of power over all things."
"And this life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play;
and as for the next abode, that most surely is the life - did they but know!"
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
The life which begins with a cry, ends also with a last cry.
The nonreturnable stopping of every vitality by the creatures.
So is the death explained by the medicine.
The stopping of the cardio.
The stopping of the heartbeat and the breathing.
The ending of the corneal reflex in the eyes.
Getting pale of the skin.
And the loosing of the muscles.
So begins the nonreturnable journey.
So far is it permitted to the human and his god called science.
It's the end for both of them and the death bewares its secrets.
Because the holy Creator says: "Every soul shall taste of death!"
Yes... the death with its secrets will keep going on.
Our holy Lord says in the 78. Verse of the Sura An-Nisa:
"Wherever you are, death will overtake you,
though you are in lofty towers,.."
Yes... you are always confronted to this truth.
The death is same close to everywhere.
The universe, sun system, earth, living creatures and mankind.
The earth... as far as known is it the only planet to live on.
With a distance of 150 million km to the sun.
40 thousand km around it, 510 million kmē is the surface area.
It circles in 365 days around the sun, gravity-speed is 24 hours.
It's an unsolved secret with its...
nights and days, seasons, winds, rain, clouds,
soil and the various elements in it,
living creatures, their regeneration and
the uninterrupted equilibrium.
And the human? With men and woman, and their:
hands, eyes, ears, brain.
The internal organs with a perfect cooperation to the brain.
Talking, reading and writing.
Thinking and producing.
Reproduction.
With its self-healing.
Fun, sadness and the spirit.
The human is another unsolved secret.
We don't try to explain about the wonders of them both.
They are all easy to see for smart people.
The seeing eye, feeling heart doesn't need to explained.
But we all had some experiences, which we didn't realized.
Sometimes we get it much later, when we think about it.
We ask us selves; is it such simple?
It's also something like that.
The space, sun-system, earth,
thousands of living creatures and the human.
Such huge expenses, this perfect equilibrium.
So many things.
Is it just such simple?
The gigantic universe should be created,
everything should serve the human and
the human should be born, live and die.
Is it just simple?
Yes... actually the amazing equilibrium is not meaningless.
Everything has its price, every reason has a result and every achievement needs effort.
Even in the world many efforts are needed to get something.
Life and body - which are also very valuable - have to be a meaning.
Our holy Lord says in Al-Mu'minun the 115 and Sad 27:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"What! did you then think that We had created you in vain and that you shall not be returned to Us?"
"And We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between them in vain;
that is the opinion of those who disbelieve then woe to those who disbelieve on account of the fire."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
The universe, the earth and the human in them.
He is like an atom, if we compare.
May be, every body or life has millions of years before and after.
However, he can neither remote the past, nor the future.
Every one's life is almost nothing in the vortex which we call time.
The time is a present for the living ones.
Some may feel it would never end,
some can't just having enough.
A mature human could tell his experiences in just a single day.
If you would ask him; explain me the life?
He would say; I was born and now I'm going, with a sad smile.
Actually the life is like the water or wind.
It comes and goes.
Without a permission to live their dreams.
Once, they were also young, beautiful and alive,
they had life and blood.
But they couldn't realize how it began and ended.
Everyone has the moment to be made gone.
Our Prophet (peace be upon him) says in a Hadith:
"The Angel of death gets a book every year in the night of salvation (Bara'at),
the people who will die in that year are written down.
Some do worship, some get married, some do quarrel.
But their names are already in the book of dead."
Yes... isn't it really so?
However, how many of us are already in the book of dead in this year?
We look to the funerals and think, we would always look.
We never think about it, that once the others will look at us like we did.
We don't like to think about the death.
Once, Rasulullah said to his companions at a funeral:
"Tell me, won't we die either?
Tell me, are the dead ones coming right back?
We bury them, get their inheritance, but don't think about own death."
Imam Al-Ghazali reports in "Alchemy of Happiness",
about an old man's letter from Ray to his friend,
as an explanation about the life, death and hereafter.
The old man says in his letter:
"The world is a dream,
the afterlife is a wake-up,
between them both is the death.
We are in a situation of mixed up and meaningless dreams, peace on you!"
Our religion defines the death as a beginning for a new life.
The death shall be the gate to the real life.
The death appears as some physical signs,
but there is a spiritual dimension too, which we don't see.
If we could see beyond the death, we would never quit to worship.
Our holy Lord makes everything through a reason, but His exceptions.
Yes, it is an undeniable fact in our time, there are dimensions which we don't see.
The human can only see three dimensional things with height, width and depth.
He can't see other things beyond this dimension.
The other side of the death is in that invisible dimension.
Our Lord created the angels in another dimension which we can't see.
And they come in certain moment to take over our lives.
Many angels under the command of Azrael (a.s.) take everyday and everywhere the lives away.
The death is a certain moment, but the exception of Allah.
But the exception of Allah, it won't come any earlier or later.
Rather you get sick and wait to die or it comes suddenly.
A terrible accident or a heart attack, it will called.
Eventually when the time comes, you go without return.
When the time comes, everyone tries to do everything to save you.
They are around you with some hope.
But the dying one knows there is no hope.
Because you see creatures beyond the usual dimension, you have never seen before.
That moment is described by the Qur'an; Al-Waqi'a 83-85, As-Sajdah 11, Qaf 19, Al-An'am 61-62, Al-Jumu'a 8, Saba 30 and Ali Imran 145:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"Why is it not then that when it (soul) comes up to the throat, And you at that time look on, And We are nearer to it than you, but you do not see!"
"Say: The angel of death who is given charge of you shall cause you to die, then to your Lord you shall be brought back."
"And the stupor of death will come in truth; that is what you were trying to escape."
"And He is the Supreme, above His servants, and He sends keepers over you;
until when death comes to one of you, Our messengers cause him to die, and they are not remiss.
Then are they sent back to Allah, their Master, the True one;
now surely His is the judgment and He is swiftest in taking account."
"Say: (As for) the death from which you flee, that will surely overtake you,
then you shall be sent back to the Knower of the unseen and the seen,
and He will inform you of that which you did."
"Say: You have the appointment of a day from which you cannot hold back any while, nor can you bring it on."
"And a soul will not die but with the permission of Allah the term is fixed;
and whoever desires the reward of this world, I shall give him of it, and whoever desires the reward of the hereafter I shall give him of it,
and I will reward the grateful."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Yes... by the coming of the angels, the curtains are opened and you see the afterlife.
Let's stop and rewind the movie in this point.
Why and how did began it all?
Why did we come to that point?
Let's think and ask a little bit.
What is the journey about?
Money, properties, career, children, houses, what for?
All the effort, was it for losing?
Did we live to die?
Did we earn to lose?
A life to end as a handful soil?
- If... - What if?
Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am."
But he should also add: "Why am I therefore?"
Why am I here? Why do I live? Where did I came from, where am I going?
Why am I dying? What will happen to me?
Every one's questions, who think.
But the answer?
It's in the Qur'an.
Az-Zariyat 56, Yunus 30, Hud 7, Al-Anbiyaa 35, Al-Mulk 2 and the Sura Al-An'am 162:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And I have not created the jinn and the men except that they should serve Me."
"There shall every soul become acquainted with what it sent before, and they shall be brought back to Allah, their true Patron,.."
"And He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six periods and His dominion (extends) on the water, that He might manifest to you, which of you is best in action,.."
"Every soul must taste of death and We try you by evil and good by way of probation; and to Us you shall be brought back."
"Who created death and life that He may try you, which of you is best in deeds;
and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving,"
"Say. Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds;"
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Let's imagine that we were in a world without religions and holy books.
And let's investigate someone, who would try to find an answer about our existence?
He would try to explain the happening about himself and environment.
He would try and find out almost every answer.
However with an exception!
When and how everything began, why he was created and exists,
and also what for responsibilities he may have.
Answering this and finding a satisfying reason were not possible.
Science couldn't help neither, because he couldn't have any results.
He can't have any results, because before the creation is unknown.
Even if he could get some points, it couldn't be satisfying.
Easiest point he could figuring out, were the idea of a Creator!
And this is a very simple point, which doesn't need too much effort.
But it's just the beginning.
The Creator... why would He create him and his environment?
Why is He not to see?
Yes, did He create everything and let them just themselves?
Since He created everything, shouldn't He tell that He did it and why He did it?
Yes, someone who were at the beginning, would ask these questions and moreover. But couldn't answer them by himself.
Even if he finds out, that there is a Creator, he couldn't know, what he was created for.
At this point is a support needed from somewhere else.
Let's say he would need extra information.
Here appears the religion and Allah's messengers.
When you think there is no way out, Allah's mercy comes to you.
Because the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth tells to our Prophet (s.a.w.),
in the Verses of 15 in Al-Israa and 18 to 24 in Fatir:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"Whoever goes aright, for his own soul does he go aright; and whoever goes astray, to its detriment only does he go astray:
nor can the bearer of a burden bear the burden of another, nor do We chastise until We raise an apostle."
"And a burdened soul cannot bear the burden of another and if one weighed down by burden should cry for (another to carry) its burden, not aught of it shall be carried, even though he be near of kin.
You warn only those who fear their Lord in secret and keep up prayer;
and whoever purifies himself, he purifies himself only for (the good of) his own soul; and to Allah is the eventual coming.
And the blind and the seeing are not alike, Nor the darkness and the light, Nor the shade and the heat,
Neither are the living and the dead alike.
Surely Allah makes whom He pleases hear, and you cannot make those hear who are in the graves.
You are naught but a warner. Surely We have sent you with the truth as a bearer of good news and a warner;
and there is not a people but a warner has gone among them."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
The guidance of the existence and worshippers...
Religion and the messengers.
That's why we need religion and messengers.
Big or small, a flower or an insect or the creation of human and when we know it's about the testing,
it gets very clear how necessary the religion and the messengers are.
Allah the Holy created everything, to test who would be better in actions.
For testing.
The testing is the most important event in the life.
The reason of the being in this world.
It's the only reason why the human was created.
Why a test, without seeing the God (Allah)?
Because if He would show Himself, all the people would belief
and there couldn't be a test.
It wouldn't have a meaning to create the mankind and the universe.
If a teacher gives the answers to the students, before he checks them, could we call it as an exam?
What for the examinations?
When everyone should graduate, what for the tiredness?
Exam... discovered in the teachings of Allah by the human, and was always needed to decide.
Good one, bad one, better one and the best, it was needed to define them.
The place, in which everyone gives his best and every effort gets repaid.
Exam is the best measure tool.
To define the busy and idle one, the working and resting one, the good and bad one.
The measure tool for doing, patience and effort, an unavoidable usage.
Yes... test is a help and solution on the way to the result.
But there are some, who find the test unnecessary.
Of course it is difficult to take responsibility.
We say always, the good one may win.
What is the measure tool for "good"?
What shall make the efforts or deeds valuable?
How can we find out without a match, who were faster or stronger?
Without an exam, how could we know who did learn and who didn't?
There are also some who believe in tests, but not in a test for hereafter.
This is not to understand.
We need to remember them, for what kind of little things they've worked in this world.
We need to remember them, how they've wasted their lives to graduate the university.
If they'd say there is any reason for a test, in that you'd win the eternal paradise, weren't they unreasonable?
Because Allah is the creator and owner of everything, so he makes the rules.
And worshipper has to obey those.
Simply said; whoever wants, may choose a way to his Lord.
Our holy Lord says in Qur'an Al Kareem the Sura of Al-Waqi'a 86-87 and Al-Ankabut 2-3:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"Then why is it not, if you are not held under authority, That you send it (not) back, if you are truthful?"
"Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, We believe, and not be tried? And certainly We tried those before them,
so Allah will certainly know those who are true and He will certainly know the liars."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Yes, some people deserved or not, get respect in this world.
People praise and exaggerate them.
Sometimes they exaggerate them in such a way, so they become "gods".
Sometimes, the mortal "gods" are praised even after their deaths.
Everybody may taste the death.
But some of them left bad tracks, like a dog leaves his mall behind.
And the others left good tracks behind, like a necklace.
Unfortunately, many worldly goods which were praised, lose their value in the moment of death.
Every life will the same before the death.
Wealth, career, celebrity, they all lose their value.
All the worldly earnings get ruined and lost in the twinkling of an eye.
Would it be only the lost things, it were even good.
You close your eyes to this world and open to hereafter.
This time, an unknown world with real justice and like you've been warned before.
A monotheistic faith and a living in the way of that faith.
The very first tool to sort out the people in hereafter.
The best earning, which can one have in a world without a return.
Yes... how are the deeds or lives recorded?
How will we get fronted to our deeds without an exception?
Who, when and how do record the information?
As we know by the Qur'an Al Kareem, the angels have a hierarchy.
They have their separate degrees and provided duties.
They work together and have hierarchy among each other.
There are angels under the command of the higher degree angels.
For example, Gabriel (a.s.) is responsible to give over the holy books to the messengers.
Azrael (a.s.) is responsible to take over the souls or let's say manages the death.
Mikael (a.s.) is responsible for the nature.
Israfel (a.s.) is responsible for the doomsday and the resurrection.
They are just some, whom we know.
There are moreover many angels with their duties, which we don't know.
So, the record on our deeds are also made by two angels from that world, which we can't see.
The both angels are every time together with that person.
They be-witness everything what he sees, hears or does.
And they write down all of them.
And they do their duty just perfect and let anything unrecorded.
Our holy Lord says in the Qur'an Al Kareem; Al-Kahf 47-49, Al-Infitar 10-12 and Qaf 16-23:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And the day on which We will cause the mountains to pass away and you will see the earth a levelled plain
and We will gather them and leave not any one of them behind.
And they shall be brought before your Lord, standing in ranks: Now certainly you have come to Us as We created you at first.
Nay, you thought that We had not appointed to you a time of the fulfillment of the promise.
And the Book shall be placed, then you will see the guilty fearing from what is in it,
and they will say: Ah! woe to us! what a book is this! it does not omit a small one nor a great one, but numbers them (all);
and what they had done they shall find present (there); and your Lord does not deal unjustly with anyone. "
"And most surely there are keepers over you, Honorable recorders, They know what you do."
"And certainly We created man,
and We know what his mind suggests to him, and We are nearer to him than his life-vein.
When the two receivers receive, sitting on the right and on the left. He utters not a word but there is by him a watcher at hand.
And the stupor of death will come in truth; that is what you were trying to escape.
And the trumpet shall be blown; that is the day of the threatening.
And every soul shall come, with it a driver and a witness.
Certainly you were heedless of it, but now We have removed from you your veil, so your sight today is sharp.
And his companions shall say: This is what is ready with me."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
The recording of the human lives might be unintelligible to the pass generations.
But if we look at the currently technology - achieved by the human - it's very simple to accept.
Videos, computer discs witch include library wise information and others like those.
This is the currently technology - achieved by the human - with the god given intelligence.
When we try to imagine our holy Lord's knowledge and power, we know there must be an amazing technology.
Those recordings will be undeniable witnesses among us.
It will show the results of an human life.
For some it will be a saver, for some a penalty.
The books which include every day and moment, will not let a way out to deny anything before the judgement.
"A last regret is not useful."
We use this sentence in worldly events, which we are confronted usually.
Actually there is a possibility to make good those regrets.
The way to return is almost there.
But there is a time to come "A last regret is really not useful."
Ways to return are closed and there is only a one-way.
Every worldly thing is over and the future is a terrible unknown.
That moment has just arrived.
"Sakarat Al-Mawt"...
which means "the throes of death"!
The moment of step onto the world dead, which the secret can't be solved from.
Let's say, the changing of the dimension from the world to eternity.
It's really a moment, that any regret could help out.
Even the way of Touba (repentance), which is always allowed will blocked.
A repentance is not accepted by Allah in that moment.
Our holy Lord says in the 18. Verse of the Sura An-Nisa:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And repentance is not for those who go on doing evil deeds, until when death comes to one of them, he says: Surely now I repent;
nor (for) those who die while they are unbelievers.
These are they for whom We have prepared a painful chastisement."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
So... what is happening in that moment, which the way of Touba is closed?
What do you see in that moment?
When we see a dying person, it looks like as he'd only breath, but any other function.
The person loses every connection to his environment.
And... can the person feel sadness or happiness in that moment, or is he aware?
In the state of dying, are his feelings or awareness functional?
Qur'an gives us some explanations about the unknown face of the death.
It's said in the Verses An-Nahl 28, Fussilat 30-32 and Al-Mu'minun 99-100:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"Those whom the angels cause to die while they are unjust to themselves. Then would they offer submission: We used not to do any evil.
Aye! surely Allah knows what you did."
"(As for) those who say: Our Lord is Allah, then continue in the right way, the angels descend upon them, saying:
Fear not, nor be grieved, and receive good news of the garden which you were promised. We are your guardians in this world's life and in the hereafter,
and you shall have therein what your souls desire and you shall have therein what you ask for: A provision from the Forgiving, the Merciful."
"Until when death overtakes one of them, he says: Send me back, my Lord, send me back; Haply I may do good in that which I have left.
By no means! it is a (mere) word that he speaks;
and before them is a barrier until the day they are raised."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
As we understand from these verses, the dying one loses any connection to this world and gets connected to the spiritual dimension.
From this point on, he gets connected to the spiritual world, which he denied in the pass.
There is any problem to see the angels, because there is no return.
Holy Allah takes the eye-curtains away, which didn't allow to see them.
Otherwise said, he will get the ability to see them.
Now he changes the dimension.
He is on the gate of the material world to the spiritual world.
In this point, you get the first results for your deeds.
If the person was fearing Allah, he gets what he expected. His exciting will turn to happiness.
A Mushriq (who associates Partners with Allah), a Fasiq (sinner) or a Qafir (unbeliever)
Like a frightened prisoner who is going to be hanged, who'd try to apologize.
Any crime is made with the awareness to get caught.
The idea of to not get caught makes them do that crimes.
The impulses in us, which are influential, work also like that.
The ego and devil make the unbelievers think, the death should be the end.
And those who are weak in their faith, will deceived with the mercy of Allah.
Our holy Lord says in Al-Jathiya 24 and Fatir 5:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And they say: There is nothing but our life in this world; we live and die and nothing destroys us but time, and they have no knowledge of that; they only conjecture."
"O men! surely the promise of Allah is true, therefore let not the life of this world deceive you,
and let not the arch deceiver deceive you respecting Allah."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Last breathe... the curtain to the world is nonreturnable closed.
Some tears, some howlers and you are gone.
Now, you know what!
A short trip in a wood chest till the grave.
And to get left behind in a cold, dark hole.
Some old photos and a few things are left behind.
They will say "May he rest in peace", but they forget after a while.
All what he had were vanished like by those who lived before him.
Rasulullah (peace be upon him) mentioned the really valuable things,
"Appreciate 5 things, before 5 things happen:
1. Youth before getting old,
2. Health before getting ill,
3. Wealth before getting poor,
4. Leisure before getting busy and
5. Live before death!
Appreciate them all!"
Rasulullah (s.a.w.) told also about to appreciate the time and remembrance of death.
"When you arrive morning, don't expect the evening!
When you arrive evening, don't expect the morning!"
"Save something from your life for death and from health for illness."
"Die before you really die."
"Check your deeds before the day of judgement."
"Remember always the death.
To remember it will hold you back from doing bad actions."
Death is obvious like the day and sun.
Sometimes we want to ask:
"What's More Real: Life or Death?"
The man is really strange, he tries almost everything to enjoy his life.
He lives, eats and drinks.
He knows about death, but doesn't think about it.
He just wants to escape from death.
He knows he will die, but tries to escape.
He lives with knowing the death.
He goes on with that knowledge.
He knows the life, but can't explain.
He knows the death, but can't explain.
He knows, he will lose his life and body, but don't ask: what's after the death?
Is it really such simple, is that all?
Either he runs away from the responsibility or he has doubts and doesn't belief.
Our holy Lord says in the Sura of Al-Hajj; 5. 6. and 7. Verses:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"O people! if you are in doubt about the raising, then surely We created you from dust, then from a small seed, then from a clot, then from a lump of flesh, complete in make and incomplete, that We may make clear to you;
and We cause what We please to stay in the wombs till an appointed time, then We bring you forth as babies, then that you may attain your maturity;
and of you is he who is caused to die, and of you is he who is brought back to the worst part of life, so that after having knowledge he does not know anything;
and you see the earth sterile land, but when We send down on it the water, it stirs and swells and brings forth of every kind a beautiful herbage.
This is because Allah is the Truth and because He gives life to the dead and because He has power over all things. And because the hour is coming, there is no doubt about it; and because Allah shall raise up those who are in the graves.
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Everybody is born, grows up and dies.
Some in the youth, others in the worst time of their life, which is called "second childhood".
But early or lately, everyone tastes the death.
He goes to grave, if he wants or not, if he likes or not.
It's clear but after the death?
Thereafter is unchanged told; warning or good news.
From the first human until know,
all prophets in past generations,
since thousands of years, they reported
the wonder of resurrection.
Let's say, the eternal life after death.
The forgotten, unmentioned resurrection!
Trees are almost death in the winter, but they get a new life in spring.
Dry seeds which bloom after they arrive the soil and water.
Aren't they examples for the resurrection?
Actually examples are very simple, but mankind doesn't think.
Wasn't he not created from nonexistence?
What's more difficult: first creation or recreation?
Our holy Lord says in As-Saffat 11, Al-Ankabut 19, Al-Ahqaf 33 and Ya-Sin 77-81:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"Ask them, Are they more difficult to create, or the other creations?"
"What! do they not consider how Allah originates the creation, then reproduces it?
Surely that is easy to Allah."
"Have they not considered that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth and was not tired by their creation, is able to give life to the dead?
Aye! He has surely power over all things."
"Does not man see that We have created him from the small seed? Then lo! he is an open disputant.
And he strikes out a likeness for Us and forgets his own creation. Says he: Who will give life to the bones when they are rotten?
Say: He will give life to them Who brought them into existence at first,
and He is cognizant of all creation
Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them?
Yea! and He is the Creator (of all), the Knower.
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Belief! It's the beginning of them all, but a true belief!
A monotheistic belief.
To know his own creator.
To know his God and to praise him.
To know the real Ruler of the heaven and earth.
To know the most Holy and Glory.
To know Him and to reject all false "gods".
Death is the first step on the way to the afterlife.
Not an end, but a beginning is the truth.
Like a seed's waiting to semiskilled.
Semiskilled is in the afterlife.
Between them is the apocalypse (Qiyamah).
We've explained life and death, and what they are for.
We end this with the word of our holy Lord, Al-Waqi'a 61-61:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"We have ordained death among you and We are not to be overcome,
In order that We may bring in your place the likes of you
and make you grow into what you know not."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."