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Way of Allah will receive a harsh punishment because they forgot the
Day of Reckoning.” (Surah Sâd: 26)

THE QUR’AN REFUTES SUPERSTITIOUS
REINCARNATION
People in general have little knowledge of reincarnation and karma,
and some people even believe that these false beliefs are compatible with
Allah’s religion conveyed to mankind by His messengers. Reincarnation
has no basis in Islam, and Muslim’s point of view in this regard (as with
everything else too) is the perspective of the Qur’an. Those who try to
present reincarnation and karma as natural laws are in clear violation of

the Qur’an.
Allah reveals in the Qur’an that death and resurrection happen
once. Man comes into being by the life Allah gives, lives this one life and,
when the appointed time of his death has come, he dies. After his death,
it is not a new life on earth that begins but the life of the hereafter. All
people are judged after their death and sent to hell or paradise accord-
ingly where they will spend their eternal lives. Allah reveals with the
following verse that every human being will die: “… Death, from which
you are fleeing, will certainly catch up with you.” (Surat al-Jumu‘a: 8).
Our Lord’s message to those who follow false beliefs like the karma is
clear:
There is a ban on any city We have destroyed; they will not return.
(Surat al-Anbiya’: 95)

Allah reveals the phases of human life in the following verse: “…
you were dead and then He gave you life, then He will make you die
and then give you life again, then you will be returned to Him? (Surat
al-Baqara: 28). In another verse he says: “Allah is He Who created you,
then provides for you, then will cause you to die and then bring you

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