Belief In Life Hereafter

The belief in life after death not only guarantees success in the Hereafter but also makes this world full of peace and happiness by making individuals most responsible and dutiful in their activities.

Think of the people of ancient Arabia. Gambling, wine, tribal feuds, plundering and murdering were their main traits when they had no belief in life after death. But, as soon as they accepted the belief in One God and life after death they became the most disciplined nation of the world. They gave up their vices, helped each other in hours of need, and settled all their disputes on the basis of justice and equality.

Similarly, the denial of life after death has its consequences not only in the Hereafter but also in this world. When a nation as a whole denies it, all kinds of evils and corruptions became rampant in that society and ultimately it is destroyed under its own weight of vice, infidelity and injustices.

The Tribes Of Thamud and Aad

The Qur'an mentions the terrible end of 'Aad, Thamud and the Pharaoh in some detail:

"(The tribes of) Thamud and 'Aad disbelieved in the Judgement to come.
As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the lightening, and
As for 'Aad they were destroyed by the fierce roaring wind,
Which He imposed on them for seven long nights and eight
Long days so that you might see the people laid prostrate in it
As if they were the stumps of fallen down palm trees.
Now do you see remnant of them?
Pharaoh likewise, and those before him, and the subverted cities.
They commited errors and they rebelled against the Messenger
Of their Lord, and He seized them with a surpassing grip.
Lo, when the waters rose, We bore you in the running ship that
We might make it a reminder for you and for heeding ears to hold.
So when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast and the earth
And the mountains are lifted up and crushed with a single blow,
Then on that day, the Terror shall come to pass, and the Heavens
Shall be split, for upon that day it shall be very frail.
The as for him who is given his book in his right hand,
He shall say 'Here take and read my book!
Certainly I thought that I should encounter my reckoning.'
So he shall be in a pleasing life in a lofty garden,
Its clusters nigh to gather. 'Eat and drink with with wholesome
Appetite for that you did long ago, in the days gone by.'

But as for him who is given his book in his left hand,
He shall say: 'Would that I had not been given my book
And not known my reckoning! Would it had been the end!
My wealth has not availed me, my authority is gone from me.'
.............Qur'an [Surah 69 : 4-39]

Thus, there are convincing reasons to believe in the life after death.

Firstly, all the prophets of God have called their people to believe in it.

Secondly, whenever a human society is built on the basis of this belief, it has been the most ideal and peaceful society, free of social and moral evils.

Thirdly, history bears witness that whenever this belief is rejected collectively by a group of people in spite of the repeated warnings from the Prophets, the group as a whole has been punished by God even in this world.

Fourthly, moral, aesthetic and rational faculties of man endorse the possibility of life after death.

Fifthly, God's attributes of Justice and Mercy have no meaning if there is no life after death.

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