Page 31 - Islam and Karma

here is no belief in an afterlife in religions that es-
pouse the concept of reincarnation, except sometimes
as an intermediate stage between lives in this world.
As we have explained in the preceding chapters, this
mistaken idea holds that people return to the world after each death,
and that this process of transformation is continuous.

According to decadent Hinduism, every time people are re-
born, they are born into one of the different castes according to what
good or evil they did in their previous lives. It is well known that the
caste system is still prevalent in Indian society; whatever people may
do in this world, they cannot change their caste. If you are born as an
untouchable, you will inevitably die as an untouchable; if you are born
a worker, you will die a worker. It is believed that it is what people

have done in their previous lives that determines into what caste they
will be born. Therefore, someone who is an untouchable in this life
will, according to the idea of karma, be reborn into a higher caste in
their next life if their actions are good.
Again, according to this erroneous belief, if one has "good
karma”, he will be born into a higher caste each
time he comes into this world, and finally
he will be born into

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