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Death, from which you are fleeing, will certainly catch up with you.
Then you will be returned to the Knower of the Unseen and the

Visible and He will inform you about what you did.
A person is resurrected after death and, according to all the things
he has done and the works he has performed, is rewarded with either
eternal Paradise or endless Hell. That is to say, that a human being has

one life in this world, and then an everlasting afterlife. God says very
clearly in the Qur'an (21: 95) that after he has died, no one will return to
this life: "It is ordained that no nation We have destroyed shall ever
rise again." And similarly:

When death comes to one of them, he says, "My Lord, send me back
again so that perhaps I may act rightly regarding the things I failed to
do!" No indeed! It is just words he utters. Behind them is a barrier
until the Day they are resurrected. (Qur'an, 23: 99-100)

As these verses show, one part of humanity will die in the hopes of
being reborn, but at the moment of their death, it will be revealed to
them that this is absolutely impossible. In another verse in the Qur'an
(2: 28), God says this about the death and resurrection of human be-

ings:

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