Now it is time to discuss the important issue
of what lays beyond the end of the Road. The combined
understanding of both science and religion tells
us that one day the human race shall cease to exist
on this planet. What happens after that is what
they may dispute. But as for people who have been
following the Divine path, they have foreknowledge
that on a certain day - hidden by God and known
only to Him - every human being will be brought
back to life again and required to give an account
for what he had done during his lifetime. Every
individual will receive on that day a reward or
punishment according to his good or bad deeds. Those
who do not believe in this Day of Account will always
argue:
And they used to say:
When we die and become dust and bones, shall we
then be raised? Say: The ancients and those of later
times will surely be gathered together for the appointed
hour of a known day. 13
The concept of the Hereafter is very remote from
the area of our human experience. It is not easy
to conceive that a person who died physically will
continue to live spiritually or that he will live
later, long after he died. Science, though not able
to disprove the possibility of life after death,
is not able to give any support to such a concept.
Although awareness of the Hereafter is part of the
belief in the unseen, therefore beyond the area
of our human experience, it is entirely logical.
To adopt the scientific theory of ‘constants’
in this universe necessitates, from the macro to
the micro, that every single cause or action has
an effect. Nothing happens without there being a
direct or indirect reaction to it. This leads us
to the concept of universal balance: which from
a spiritual point of view leads us to the belief
in ultimate justice administered from the Divine
attribute of a Just God.
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The Holy Qur’an: 56:47-50 |
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