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He asserts that the metaphysical aspects of man (his mind and
emotions) are also generated by such interactions. Accordingly, such
people interpret resurrection as the self-rebuilding of matter and thus
can never imagine the possibility of this process. That is to say, they
cannot accept that annihilated matter can reappear and reassemble.
Nevertheless, if what they cannot grasp is how a decomposed
body can return from death, they should consider that human beings
were initially created from nothing. This being the case, to question
restoration after death or harbor doubts about how it could be possible
shows great imprudence. In the Qur’an, Allah addresses the matter of
resurrection:
Did We fail in the first creation? But they are in confusion
over a new creation. And We have already created man
and know what his soul whispers to him, and We are
closer to him than [his] jugular vein. 38
It is actually the soul and not the body that makes a person
what he is. It is not the heap of flesh and bones that constitutes a
man; it is his soul. Death puts an end to the body, while the soul
continues to live for all eternity. Death is only an experience of
transition for the soul to the life of the Hereafter. Allah says:
37 Surah al-Isra, 17:49-52.
38 Surah Qaf, 50:15-16.
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