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DEATH, RESURRECTION, HELL

granted to him. An unshakeable faith in the hereafter, purified of all
forms of doubts, embraces faith in the existence of Allah as well as in
His attributes, as explained in the Qur'an, and complete trust in and
submission to Him. This faith also makes one know Allah and ap-
preciate Him as is proper. This is the faith Allah considers to be pre-

cious.
Having true and complete conviction is possible with a commit-
ted faith in the hereafter. In many parts of the Qur'an, Allah reveals
the unbelievers' denial of the hereafter and their indecision about its
realization. In fact, the majority of these are people who believe in
the existence of Allah. However, what misleads them most is not the
existence of Allah but His attributes. Some believe Allah initially cre-
ated everything and then left human beings to their own devices.
Some, on the other hand, hold that Allah created man, but that it is
the individual himself who determines his own fate. Another group
maintains that Allah does not know the inner thoughts and secrets of
man. Some others believe in the existence of Allah, but reject the idea
of religion. Allah reveals about the holders of this false conviction as
follows:

They do not measure Allah with His true measure when they
say, 'Allah would not send down anything to a mere human
being.' (Surat al-An'am: 91)
As revealed in the verse, rather than a total denial of the exis-
tence of Allah, "not measuring Allah with His true measure" and ac-
cordingly, the denial of the hereafter, underlie faithlessness. Indeed,
the proportion of people refusing to accept the existence of the

Creator is rather low and many of them often entertain doubts about
their convictions. One finds extensive reference to people who as-

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