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BASIC TENETS OF ISLAM

how Allah repays those who have fear for Him: those the
angels take in a virtuous state. They say, "Peace be upon you!
Enter paradise for what you did."(Surat an-Nahl: 31-32)

BELIEF IN THE HEREAFTER

The life of the world is nothing but a game and a
diversion. The abode of the hereafter - that is truly Life
if they only knew. (Surat al-'Ankabut: 64)
Either reward or punishment awaits man at the end of the
trial that is the life of this world. Those who engage in good
deeds, and have faith in Allah, earn the good pleasure of
Allah, and are rewarded with an eternal paradise. The
wicked, those who deny Allah and transgress His limits,
however, deserve hell, where they will encounter eternal
punishment.
Man never actually disappears. From the very moment
we are created, our eternal life begins. That is, we have

already started our eternal life. Once our trial has ended, and
immediately following the moment of transition, which we
call death, we will live on into eternity. Whether that time
will be spent in torment or in bliss depends on one's
commitment to the Word of Allah, the Qur'an, and his
fastidiousness in observing His limits. This entire system, the
universe, the world, human beings, and everything created
for human beings, have been created for an ultimate purpose;
the life in the hereafter. Allah informs us that man's existence

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