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An Easy Passage To The Next World 39

But what will happen to them at the end of their lives?
Where and when will Allah meet them at the hour He has ap-

pointed for their death? Neither believers nor unbelievers
know where and when they will die. This fact is explained in
Surah Luqman in these words:
Truly Allah has knowledge of the Hour, sends
down abundant rain, and knows what is in the
womb. And no self knows what it will earn tomor-
row, and no self knows in what land it will die. Allah
is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Surah Luqman, 34)
Together with this, the Qur'an informs us how death will
come to believers, how their souls will be taken, and what will

happen at the moment of death. As far as we know, believers
experience death as a very gentle passage, like a momentary
change in dimension. Just like the person whom Allah causes
to be "as dead during his sleep" (Surat az-Zumar, 42) and
wakes up the next morning to a new day, when believers die,
they will be taken out of the worldly dimension and pass to
the next dimension (Certainly Allah knows the truth.)
Allah announced this gentle and easy passage in Surat an-
Nazi'at, 2, where He points to the appointed angels and says
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Another verse tells about the angels' conversation when
they come to take a believer's soul:
Those the angels take in a virtuous state. They
say: "Peace be upon you! Enter Paradise for what
you did." (Surat an-Nahl, 32)