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life thereafter is the Qur’an revealed to us by Allah. Our Lord informs
us in the Torah and Bible (both corrupted to a great extent at present)
as well as the Qur’an, the only Divine book of revelation that remains

uncorrupted and unchanged, that with death, man’s earthly life ends
and the life of the hereafter begins. Man will not return to earth in a
new body as those who believe in reincarnation insist and neither will
his soul live on in the life of earth as the Shintoists claim. Allah says in
the Qur’an:
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. Before them there is an
interspace until the Day they are raised up. (Surat al-Muminun: 99-
100)

As the verses suggest, the unbelievers’ expectation of being re-
turned to earth is in vain and Allah reveals in another verse that those
in paradise will not experience another death other than the “first”.
They will not taste any death there – except for the first one. He will
safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing Fire. A favor
from your Lord. That is the Great Victory. (Surat ad-Dukhan: 56-57)
Allah reveals much information about the death of the deniers.
Death is only the beginning of a great suffering for all those who deny
the existence of Allah and the eternal life in the hereafter. Whilst an ob-
server may well think that a person is dying peacefully in their bed,
they are in reality entering fierce punishment (Allah knows the truth).

Angels of death debase and hurt them when taking their lives from
their bodies. The following is revealed in verses about the unbeliever’s
moment of death:
... If you could only see the wrongdoers in the throes of death when
the angels are stretching out their hands, saying, “Disgorge your
own selves! Today you will be repaid with the punishment of hu-

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