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The Afterlife According to the Idea of Karma
People are preoccupied with a great many activities in the life of this world. They go to school,
work, get married, look after their families, travel, read, write… However, people who devote
themselves to that sort of activity and forget that they will one day die actually do themselves
great harm, as human life is not restricted to this world. Compared to the eternal life of the here-
after, the life of this world is no more than the blink of an eye. The important thing is for an indi-
vidual to spend his life in an effort to please Allah, to Whom he will have to give account in the
hereafter. Someone who becomes caught up in the idea of karma and other similar superstitious
beliefs and loses sight of the hereafter may one day suffer terrible surprise and regret when he
suddenly finds himself at the Day of Judgement.
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