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DEATH

EVERY SELF WILL TASTE DEATH
Every self will taste death. We test you with both good and evil as
a trial. And you will be returned to Us. (Qur'an, 21:35)
Then subsequently you will certainly die. (Qur'an, 23:15)
You will die and they too will die. (Qur'an, 39:30)
Allah created you and then will take you back again. And some of
you revert to the lowest form of life so that after having knowledge,
you know nothing at all. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.
(Qur'an, 16:70)
We did not give any human being before you immortality. And if
you die, will they then be immortal? (Qur'an, 21:34)
No self can die except with Allah's permission, at a predetermined
time. If anyone desires the reward of this world, We will give him
some of it. If anyone desires the reward of the hereafter, We will
give him some of it. We will recompense the thankful. (Qur'an,
3:145)

IT IS ALLAH WHO GIVES BOTH LIFE
AND DEATH
That it is He Who brings about both death and life; (Qur'an, 53:44)
It is We Who give life and cause to die and We are the Inheritor.
(Qur'an, 15:23)
It is We Who give life and cause to die and We are their final
destination. (Qur'an, 50:43)
Allah is He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens and earth
belongs. He gives life and causes to die. You have no protector or
helper besides Allah. (Qur'an, 9:116)
There is no god but Him—He gives life and causes to die—your
Lord and the Lord of your forefathers, the previous peoples.
(Qur'an, 44:8)

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