I got this quotation from the Internet, which tells you a definition about the death in Islam.
“What we call death is the transference into a life at a universe of frequencies within a spirit body after separating from the biological material body. As the brain ceases to function, the bioelectric energy outspread to the body disconnects and the body loses the electromagnetic force that normally keeps the spirit tied to body. So the human spirit is released to a new life independent from the physical body.
Such an event is what is meant by “Death”.
All this statement is stating that when we die we transfer from this life, which is physical, we go beyond which is out of human understanding.
When a person dies and falls into sleep into a world of dreams begins his journey into his own world of grave. The two angels as noted in the deen (religion) of Islam come up and ask three Questions.
“Who is your Lord”?
“Who is your Nabi (prophet)”?
“What is your Book”?
The answers to these questions are the I Believe in Allah, Muhammad is the Last Prophet and Quran is my book.
If you get the answers right your body stays in peace and harmony and if you get them wrong then you will suffer forever.
Resurrection
Resurrection in Islam is that one the day of judgement all mankind will stand in front of god and they will be judged on their deeds. The souls will meat the body and they will arise from their graves.
Chapter: 35, Verse: 9
“It is Allah, Who sends the winds and they raise a cloud
Then leads it to a dead land and revives
The earth after its death, Such is the Resurrection”
The day will come when the trumpet is blown and there will be no more time.
The Quran teaches resurrection of the dead rather than immortality of the soul i.e. when you die your soul does not go straight to heaven, instead it waits in the grave until the last day when soul and body will be rejoined and the raised person will come out of the grave. They say,
“What! When we are reduced to bones and just should are really be raised up to be a new creation…Who will cause us to return? Say, he who created you first”
(Sura 17 v 49-51)
According to the Quran, the last day will be heralded by the sound of Trumpet, everything will stop, the heaven and earth will change and the raised dead will join the living.
On the day of judgement, the whole of the earth will be but his handful and the heaven will be rolled up in his right hand.
The Trumpet will be sounded when all that are in the heaven and the earth will swoon. Except such, as it will please God to exempt.
(Sura 39 V 67-69)
“And so, when the piercing call of resurrection is heard, on a day when everyone will flee from his brother, and from his mother and father, and spouse and his children, “on that day to everyone of them will his own state be of sufficient concern.” “ some faces will on the day be bright with happiness, laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings,” And some face will on the day with dust be coverd, with darkness over-spread, “these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in inquity”
(Abasea 80:33-24)
“when the earth quakes with her(last) mighty quaking and when the earth yields up her might burdens and man cries out, what has happened to her? On the day will all men come forward, cut off from one other, to be shown their past deeds. And so, he who shall have done an atoms weigth of good, shall behold it:
And he who shall have done an atomes weight of evil, shall behold it”
(AL-Zalzalah 99: 1-8)
These two statements show how the earth will break in to half and man will come forward and get judged.
Mizans is a Arabic word which means balancing some thing. Mizans is a special balance god will use after the general resurrection to weigh the deeds of each person as recorded in their individual books of deeds.
The Arabic word al-jannah means garden and paradise, the abode of those whose good deeds are greater than their bad ones. It is also sometimes called al-firdows in the Quran.
Muslims refer to paradise as a place of beauty Al-Jannah and the hell were the fire burns hotter then Venus surface Jahannam. Jannah also contains the Garden of Eden were Adam & eve did there bad deed before coming to earth.
Heaven is place of peace, every human in his own mind looks for a place, which wide eyes can’t see. Heaven is that place that we all seek were the rivers run deep filled with what eye pleasures you most. A whole world of imagination that is true, for Muslims heaven symbolises then end and the begging of a new supernatural world. Allah has promised all Muslims heaven how have been faithful to Allah and his prophet, the Quran says.
“This is the similitude of Jannah which the Allah fearing have been promised: therein are rivers of water unstaling, rivers of milk unchanging in flavour and rivers of wine- a delight to the drinkers, rivers, too, of honey purified; and therein for them is every fruit, and forgiveness from their Lord.”
Heaven is only the positive side of life after death, there is a place for people who took advantage of others and people who used there jurisdiction instead of Allah’s a place called Jahannam (Hell).
Muslims believe in Jahannam as a place of no mercy, it is a place were your worst nightmare comes true, a place made out of fire and hot lava that no physical body can take. I am a Muslim and my parents always told me if I do bad things like steal I will be forbidden to from Janna and sent to (Jahannam) were my soul will suffer and be killed hundreds of times. So Jahannam is the consequence of what we do in this life that is why the Quran says sacrifice this short journey for the next eternal life. Death, it is only the beging not the end and what we get in the next life depends on what we do. When we die our feet, tongs, fingers will testify for the deeds we have committed and the angels on our shoulders will open up the book “this is your life” in front of us not in front of Allah because Allah is all knowing and Allah will judge us whether we go to heaven or hell.
The Quran says.
“On the day when their tongues, their hands and their feet shall testify against them touching that they were doing. Upon that day Allah will pay them in full their just due, and they shall know that Allah is the manifest Truth.”
Christianity is like Islam it has its differences and it has it agreements. A creed is a summary of Christian belief. They were originally used to help Christians. The three most famous Christian creeds are the apostles, Athanasian and Nicene Creed. The apostles did not write the apostle’s creed. The Athanasian and Nicene creeds both come from the fourth century.
I believe in god, father Almighty,
And in Christ Jesus, his only-begotten son, Our Lord
Who was born of the Holy Ghost and of Mary, the Virgin,
Who was crucified under Pontius Pilate and buried;
On the third day he rose from the dead,
Ascended into heaven,
And sitteth at the right hand of the Farther,
From whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead;
And in the Holy Ghost;
The holy church;
The remission of sins;
And the resurrection of the dead.
These are the major beliefs of Christianity, the last one tells you that the do believe in the judgement day and in heaven and hell. It is very similar to Islam but the major difference is that they believe that the Jesus is the son of the god.
Christians believe that Jesus will return to earth again. This is called the Parousia, a Greek word meaning the presence. It was used of kings and rulers returning to their court. The study of Paul believed that after death, a spiritual body would be raised.
Christians believe in the original sin of Adam & Eve, which they committed in the Garden of Eden by eating from the bidden fruit.
They can wash way their original sin by getting baptised.
A sacrament is an outward sign, instituted by Christ, to give inward grace. There are seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony.
The three important sacraments are.
Penance to the priest the priest absolves the sins that you tall him.
Last rites. Last rites are also called extreme unction and sacrament of the sick. This sacrament at the ending of one’s life. Closes the earthly eyes of the person and prepares the soul for last passage to the after life.
The last important one but not the least is baptism. Which you know is that a child has to be baptised to wash way his original sin.
All Christians around the world believe in life after death. They believe that what you do in this life affects the hereafter the eternal life. The bible says that there is resurrection of all mankind, when we die we will go heaven or hell, they believe that they will be standing next to there loved ones and Jesus Christ.
Christians believe as soon as they die they will be judged, and then they will either go to heaven, hell or purgatory.
The Christians have few different views on life beyond.
The Catholic teaching on life after death.
When we die those who have died in god’s grace and are perfectly purified go to heaven.
Those who have died in god’s grace but were imperfectly purified (Those who die with unforgiving venial or lesser sins) will go to purgatory and be purified of their sins.
Those who have refused to believe or who die without repenting of a mortal of a mortal sin will go to hell.
Jesus will come back to earth, the dead will be raised and all these souls will be reunited with their bodies.
Then god will judge everyone.
The Roman Catholic Church believes in god’s saving grace and believes that they must do good deeds to enter heaven if not then they enter the state of purgatory.
Purgatory
Purgatory is seen as a ‘staging post’ between this world and heaven, providing further opportunity for sanctification.
The stress on torment in purgatory was developed in the Middle Ages. Most Protestants believe that we shall be changed in a flash, in the twinkling of eye.’ At death we pass from time to eternity where everything is now. Catholic continues to believe in a period of preparation and purification, before we enter heaven but purgatory is entirely different from the punishment of the demand.
For whosoever calls upon the name of Jesus Christ, the Lord shall be saved.
(Romans 10; 13)
The protestant Church believes in god’s saving grace and it alone. They believe that all Christians who truly believe in Jesus will go heaven. This is a big difference between these two.(Roman catholic & Protestant Churches.)
When the bible talks about the glories and heaven, it talks about the bodily resurrection, rather than spiritual survival or the immortality of the soul.
The apostles creed emphasises this ‘I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.
Christians believe the life we will gat, which will be indeed be eternal life is a gift from the generosity of god.
The reason Christians believe in resurrection is because of Jesus’s resurrection, it is biblical.
The bible states
“If Christ has not been raised from death, we have nothing to preach and you have nothing to believe…but the truth is that Christ has been raised from death, as the guarantee that those who sleep in death will be raised…for just as all people die because of their union with Adam, in the same way all will be raised to life because of their union with Christ.
The bible also says that when body will be raised from the grave it will be totally different from the present us.
‘Behold I make all things new.’ There will be ‘a new heaven and earth.’ (Revelation 21:1)
When the body is buried it is mortal but when raised it will be immortal, so they believe they will be many changes to our physical bodies on the resurrection day.
The reason Jesus resurrected was because his death meant his failure which would lead people to believe that it was nothing but a joke but his resurrection was his victory against evil and people would follow him, so that is why Christians believe in resurrection.
There is not a lot of difference in Christians and Islam’s teaching about heaven and hell because they both teach that if you are good in this earthly life than God will direct to heaven as promised. If you are bad then you will go to hell which is not very good place to spend your eternal life.
The reason Christians believe in heaven and hell is because Christ told his disciples that he would go to his Father and prepare a place for all mankind.
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in god; trust also in me. In my father’s house there are many rooms; if it were no so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
(John 14:1-4)
Christians believe that this is where Jesus is ‘sitting at the right hand of god’. This is where the righteous will go as their reward when they die.
Before you can go to heaven you have to ask for full for giveness form god.
When we will be asked about our youth?
Will we say the things we done truth?
Will our diplomas and degrees come in use?
Or will they bring us bad news?
We blanked Islam for education- and got into the Non-Islamic generation.
The friends we trusted with whom we had fun,
Stopped us from entering the gates of heaven.
The requirements are simple, the reward is high be prepased think well before you die.
A garden of paradise or a pit of hell- the choice is yours! So think well!
Sacrifice your short journey here- for in the here after you will have no fact.
Day by day as life decreases- day by day as our sins increase.
Day by day as our deeds change into sins another day the shatan wins.
For on that day when well be scaled!
Think-will we win or will we fail may
Allah save us all, from the fire of hell.
By Farhan Shahid
It shows the Islamic point of view “what we do is what you get”.
After studying beliefs about life after death in Islam and Christianity. I have seen many similar text in Quran and the bible which refers to the same things, like Allah promised his people Heaven so did Jesus but there are some difference between the beliefs s no bigger then a stick.
The major similarities in Islam and Christianity are like they both teach there is life after death, it is not the end but only the begging and death is only a transformation from physical to beyond which is out of human understanding.
The difference in Islam about the belief in life after death is that, Islam believes that when you go to your grave you stay in a state of “Barzak”.
Barzak is the waiting in the grave for the trumpets to blow and all mankind will be judge.
In Christianity you go straight to heaven hell or a state of Purgatory depending on your good and bad actions in life on earth, if you feeds the poor, act on what your mother or farther say and do all the good things then you will be rewarded with heaven.
If you do bad things like murder, rape, be curl to people all the moral things then you get hell, it is same as Islam.
The difference is the basic beliefs in these two religions, in Islam basic beliefs are believing in Allah the only God, Angels of Allah, the books, messengers, the day of judgement, and life after death.
Christianity also gives a belief in life after death a belief in heaven and hell. The Difference is that in Christianity you have to believe in Jesus, who they declare as the saviour and Son of God who died on the cross for everyone’s sins. Also teaches us to believe in one god, which Islam teaches too. Christianity teaches the trinity, beliefs in the father, the son, and the Holy Ghost.
These facts clearly say that there is not much of difference in Islam and Christianity.
I think the most important point in to believe in one god and one god only; it is the faith that keeps people together and fear from god.
Islam and Christianity both have same basic beliefs in life after death and they both lead to the same conclusion, which is to have faith and do good things and be mature about the steps you take in life.
The bit that survives death is your soul and the physical resurrection. Physical resurrection is when you will be raised from dead on the judgement day.
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