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Is there life after death? What does it look like?
No other subject has caused so much turmoil throughout history than that of life and death. Philosophers and scientists approached life and death with so many concepts and assumptions. Any discussion on life and death without considering the Creator in this process is just a waste of time. This is like a group of laymen gathering around an engineer to discuss his invention, and their conclusion is that they understand the invention more than the inventor himself. This is the kind of scientific joke that some scientists and their followers are publicizing in the name of fighting superstitions. But death is unseen; no one ever died for a long period of time and returned back to tell the world what happens after death. And since death is unseen, then any discussion about it is pure guesswork. Consequently death is subject to imagination and guesswork because no one can prove otherwise. This subject of guesswork is stated in the Quran as follows:
Surah 18, Ayah 51 "I called them not to witness the creation of the heavens and earth, not (even) their creation, nor is it for me to take as helpers such as Lead (men) astray"
So Allah tells us that people will come and present ideas and hypotheses about the creation of the universe and life, and those people were not helping God in His Grand Design. Their arrogant ideas served the purpose of confusing the average person. The above Ayah is one of the prophecies of the Quran, and we can see the result of this prophecy very vividly in our present time. The theory of evolution and the self behaving universe are mere human guesswork and assumptions that cannot be proved.
It is a known fact that a living human body consists of water, many chemicals and a soul. But what is the soul? Is it in the brain that thinks? Is it in the heart that pulses? Is it in the hands or feet? Where is it and what is it? What does it look like? Scientists attempted to weigh a body
before and after death to know if the soul has weight. They found a minute decrease in the weight. Who knows if the scale is exact enough? Who knows if some chemical phenomena happen at the moment of death and reduced the weight?
No one knows about the soul except its Creator. And maybe this is just one of the eternal divine challenges a human will never face. And if we don’t know about something inside our bodies, how then can we claim we know all the secrets of this entire universe? We are supposed to search, study, examine, and observe; but if we come to a limit or a wall then we have to realize that there are many things beyond our comprehension and in the end we are limited creatures. The human brain is limited but it has a very serious function. Its main purpose is supplying us with a choice to select alternatives, and to differentiate between the good and evil. But this brain is designed to acknowledge the unseen, which only can be told to us by God. Thus if we want to know the unseen, then our only choice is to learn from the Creator of the unseen. This is our only way to know any unseen matter whether it is the soul, the Angels, or life and death.
