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DEATH, RESURRECTION, HELL

the dead. Some time after this first rising from death, life ends and
man dies. He returns to earth again, just as in the first phase, and is
reduced to insignificance. This is the second transition to the state of
death. The second and last event of rising from the dead is the one
taking place in the hereafter. Since this is the case, there is not a sec-

ond resurrection in the life of this world. Otherwise, this would ne-
cessitate a third resurrection. However, there is no reference to a
third resurrection in any of the verses. Both in Surah Ghafir: 11, and
Surat al-Baqara: 28, there is no reference suggesting the possibility of
a second resurrection in the life of this world. On the contrary, these
verses explicitly reveal the existence of one resurrection in this world
and another one in the hereafter.
In addition, several other verses in the Qur'an make it clear that
there is only one life where man is put to the test and that it is in the
life of this world. That there is no return to this life after death is
stated in the following verse:

When death comes to a wrongdoer, he says, 'My Lord, send
me back again, so that perhaps I may act rightly regarding the
things I failed to do!' 'No indeed! It is just words he utters.
Before them shall stand a barrier until the Day they are raised
up.' (Surat al-Mu'minun: 99-100)
The dialogues in the verse make it clear that after death, there is
no return to this life. Meanwhile, in this verse, Allah draws our at-
tention to the fact that unbelievers entertain desperate hopes about a
second raising from the dead, a second return to this life. However,
the verse clarifies that these are just words suggested by unbelievers

which have no validity.
That the people of paradise will not experience another death

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