Page 22 - Communication and Argument in the Qur'an

REMINDING PEOPLE ABOUT

THE HEREAFTER

Fear a Day when no soul will be able to
compensate for another in any way. No
intercession will be accepted from it, no
ransom taken from it, and they will not be
helped. (Surat al-Baqara: 48)

One of the unbelievers’ greatest spiritual problems is
that they do not believe in the Hereafter, as if people had
just “made it up” to console themselves after someone
dies. The clearest indication of this doubt is their attitude
when they speak of death or when someone dies. They do
not like to speak of death, and so try to avoid the topic or
turn the conversation toward something else. On the con-
trary, those who believe in the Hereafter do not grieve over
death, for Allah has given their life and He will give it back
from them. For someone who believes in the eternal life
after death, death is not an event for which to feel sorry.
Those who have little or no belief in the Hereafter dev-
astate people who are distant to the morality of the reli-
gion. When a relative dies, they say consoling words based