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believe that they will be resurrected after death as informed in the Qur'an,

and make irrelevant remarks. Allah has pointed in the Qur'an to the twist-
ed reasoning of the unbelievers and has given them the answer:
And he makes comparisons for Us, and forgets his own (origin and)
Creation: He says, "Who can give life to (dry) bones and decomposed
ones (at that)?" Say, "He will give them life Who created them for the first
time! for He is well-versed in every kind of creation!" (Surah Ya-Seen, 78-
79)
Allah–“He Who created Death and Life“–has created everything in the
universe for a specific purpose and thus explained the purpose of man's
creation: "that He may try which of you is best in deed: and He is the
Exalted in Might, Oft-Forgiving." (Surat al-Mulk, 2) As explained in the
verse, this world is a place of trial and, as such, it is temporary. There is
an end for all people as well as for the world, the time of which is pre-
destined by Allah. People are responsible for living the short-lived lives
given to them according to the terms set by Allah and described to them
in the Qur'an. In the hereafter they shall have their reward for what they
have done here.

THE EVERLASTING PENALTY
We have described in the course of this book the manifest signs of
Allah's existence, the advocates of the system that relies on rejecting Allah,
and the kind of social context they seek to establish. Everything that has
been discussed so far is concerned with "the life of this world". However,

what follows death, that is, the "hereafter" also deserves serious consider-
ation.
Those who labour to advance the systems that rely heavily on disbe-
lief in Allah offer a distressful life to their followers in the world. These
people will also cause their adherents to suffer a grievous penalty in the
hereafter. There, they will by no means show the close attention they used
to show to those foolish people who followed them in the world. On the
contrary, there, they will only mind saving themselves as stated in the fol-
lowing verse:

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