The inevitability of death: Resurrection, reckoning, reward and punishment, and other matters related to the life to come.
Death is inevitable. God says: ‘All that lives on it perishes; but forever will remain the face of your Lord, full of majesty, granting grace’. (55: 26–7) It is a part of faith that we should believe in what comes after death, including one’s examination in the grave and the resulting happiness or torment.
The inevitability of death: Resurrection, reckoning, reward and punishment, and other matters related to the life to come.
Death is inevitable. God says:
‘All that lives on it perishes; but forever will remain the face of your Lord, full of majesty, granting grace’. (55: 26–7)
It is a part of faith that we should believe in what comes after death, including one’s examination in the grave and the resulting happiness or torment.
Moreover, it is essential to believe in resurrection. God says:
‘The Trumpet will be sounded and out of their graves they will rise and hasten to their Lord’. (36: 51)
Whoever doubts the resurrection disbelieves in God:
‘And as for the unbelievers, [they will be asked]: “When My revelations were recited to you, did you not glory in your arrogance and persist in your wicked ways? For when it was said, ‘God’s promise will certainly come true, and there can be no doubt about the Last Hour,’ you would answer, ‘We know nothing of the Last Hour. We think it is all conjecture, and we are by no means convinced’”’. (45: 31–2)
Needless to say, the one who denies the Day of Judgement is also an unbeliever:
‘Nay! It is the Last Hour that they deny. For those who deny the Last Hour We have prepared a blazing fire’. (25: 11).
Another part of faith is to believe in the reckoning on the Day of Judgement. God says:
‘We shall set up just scales on the Day of Resurrection, so that no soul shall be wronged in the least. If there be but the weight of a mustard seed We shall bring it [to account]. Sufficient are We for reckoning’. (21: 47).
Yet another part of faith is to believe in reward and punishment, heaven and hell. God says:
‘Those who will have brought wretchedness upon themselves, they will be in the Fire where they will sob and moan’. (11: 106)
‘And those who are blessed with happiness will be in Paradise’. (11: 108)
The unbelievers will go to the Fire and the believers will be in heaven, as God says:
‘As for those who disbelieve I shall inflict on them severe suffering in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to help them. But to those who believe and do good works, He will grant their reward in full. God does not love the wrongdoers’. (3: 56-7)
It is also required to believe in everything stated in authentic texts of the things that will take place in the life to come and on the Day of Judgement, such as the pathway, the scales, the pond and the scrolls of people’s good and evil deeds.1
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- The pathway is a sort of bridge that is erected over Hell on the Day of Judgement. All people will need to cross it in order to reach Heaven. Believers will be able to do so, while unbelievers will fall. The scales are placed to weigh people’s actions which they did during their life on earth. The pond belongs to Prophet Muhammad when he will give people to drink. Only believers may drink from it. The scrolls are records of all that people do in this present life. Each one will be handed their records on the Day of Judgement and the believers will be proud of their records calling on other people to look into them. The unbelievers will wish that they had never seen their records.