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DEATH, RESURRECTION, HELL

He might test the believers with this excellent trial from Him.
Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Surat al-Anfal: 17)

The same Divine law applies to the creation of the hereafter and
the images and perceptions related to it. When death comes, all rela-
tions with this world and the body are broken. The soul, however, is
eternal by Allah's will. Transition from this world to the hereafter is
no different from waking up from sleep and proceeding with daily
life.
With resurrection, a new life begins in the hereafter with a new
body. Allah, the Creator of infinite images, voices, odors, tastes and
feelings pertaining to this life, will, in like manner, create infinite im-
ages and feelings of paradise and hell. The creation of all these is
easy for Allah:

...When he decides on something, He just says to it, 'Be!' and it
is. (Surat al-Baqara: 117)
Another fact to be noted is that just as life in this world appears
in sharper relief than dreams, so does the hereafter as compared to
life in this world. Likewise, just as dreams are short compared to this
life, so also is this life as compared to the hereafter. As known, time is
a relative concept. This is a fact which is verified by science today. In

dreaming, an event assumed to go on for hours, lasts only for a few
seconds. Even the longest dream is of only a few minutes duration.
Yet, the one who has the dream assumes he has most probably spent
days experiencing it. Allah reveals in the Qur'an the relativity of
time:
The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day whose
length is fifty thousand years. (Surat al-Ma'arij: 4)

He directs the whole affair from heaven to earth. Then it will

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