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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

We did not give any human being before you immortality. And if
you die, will they then be immortal? (Surat al-Anbiya’, 34)
He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead

from the living and brings the earth to life after it was dead. In the
same way you too will be brought forth. (Surat ar-Rum, 19)
So look at the effect of the mercy of God, how He brings the dead
earth back to life. Truly He is the One Who brings the dead to life.
He has power over all things. (Surat ar-Rum, 50)
Say: ‘The Angel of Death, who has been given charge of you, will

take you back and then you will be sent back to your Lord. (Surat
as-Sajdah, 11)
Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on
the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and
admitted to the Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is just
the enjoyment of delusion. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 185)
God takes back people’s selves when their death arrives and those
who have not yet died, while they are asleep. He keeps hold of those

whose death has been decreed and sends the others back for a spec-
ified term. There are certainly Signs in that for people who reflect.
(Surat az-Zumar, 42)
(Believers are) those who are aware that they will meet their Lord
and that they will return to Him. (Surat al-Baqarah, 46)
Surely to your Lord is the return. (Surat al-Alaq, 8)

Say: ‘My Lord has commanded justice. Stand and face Him in every
mosque and call on Him, making your religion sincerely His. As He
originated you, so you will return. (Surat al-A’raf, 29)
Those who, when disaster strikes them, say, ‘We belong to God and
to Him we will return. (Surat al-Baqarah, 156)

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