What does Islam offer to humans in the after life and how is it more important than the present life ?

Question

Every religion offers to give something to humans. Many things are left to assumptions and presumptions and stated in general terms . I would lke to know specifically (1) what the purpose of one's going to heaven is and what exactly the souls that go to heaven do (3) whether women who believe in the religion also go to heaven and if so do they also get the reward there that men get there? (4) How it is more important than the life on earth? and (5) Why god can not give that reward in this life on earth itself

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

According to Islam , the believers are taken to heaven by the angels to secure the reward that God has to offer for them. The heaven is more comfortable than an air-conditioned room of a star hotel .
The believers are offerd a special cool drinks over- flowing in silver cups and provided with many young maidens of equal age with swelling breasts for the believers to enjoy and spend thier life in heaven eternally enjoying with the damsels.
( Please refer to paragraph 78 of the Kuran .- -The Announcement )
It is not known what the women believers would be provided with . .Perhaps no reward . As the maidens provided to the believers are said to be young maidens all of equal age , the seniors among the men belivers might be also having some good time with the maidens in heaven .
The point is , is it worthwhile to force all the non-believers to convert to Islam or kill them just for the sake of securing the reward of dozens of young maidens with swelling breasts in heaven after one has become a spirit after death. .
It seems that the offer of eternal sexual life in heaven with dozens of young maidens with swelling breasts is the prime attaction of after-life in Islam.
There is no autehntic answer to the other questions as authority of the scripture can not be quoted for any answer to be given for them.

Answer 4

Well life is a test so that means either we pass or fail, and they both will determine if we go to Hell or Heaven. So if we pass we go to Heaven. And its more important than this life because it hasnt got no drawbacks or any sort of badness in Heaven

Answer 5

The after life is everlasting. You can mostly live to be 80 or 99 at the very most. But after Judgment Day, your good deeds will take you to Heaven and bad deed take you to Hell (no offense) where there is no end to life. This is what Islam is about. So, if you are born to be of ill health, handicapped, very poor....., do not fret, if you do the good deeds, you will have your rewards. This forces us not to complain and look at others fortunes or even good looks. If you do believe what Islam is about, respect it at least, please.

Answer 6

This is a very good question. In order to understand the answer, one must know the purpose of life. This life is only temporary and is a test.

For education purposes, I recommend that you listen to the following audio file which will give you a good understanding of the purpose of life and will help you understand the answer.

http://english.islamway.com/bindex.php?section=lessons&lesson_id=55&scholar_id=7

Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Peace:

At last, one question on Islam that seems to invite genuine opinion.

First, very briefly, the concept of life and death:

God created Humankind, and indeed other species, for Himself. Much as we see artists everyday creating works of arts as expression of their talent. God said, "I was a Hidden Treasure, and I wished to be known."

So He created the Universe, and perhaps the multiverse (Western scientists have acknowledged this concept*), and many species therein. Even Space, Time, and apparantly lifeless things are His creation, and are treated as entities unto themselves by gnostics and upon close understanding, even scientists. By the way, "He" is genderless, it's just a pronoun commonly used for God.

God created cognizant beings of higher intelligence so that they may know Him - and worship Him - and that is the purpose of all life. These beings include Angels, Humans, and Jinns - and humans are the supreme creation as they are both sublime and earthly.

Angels are bound by God's command, and humans and Jinn are by His principles. However, they have a degree of choice to opt between the principles of life and creation and society, or not.

All souls were created and given consciousness before they came to Earth. All souls that will ever come have been created. And it is not a concept beyond understanding for those who observe how an entire oak tree hides in its seed before birth; and indeed, in some ways, its children are also in that seed. Actually, all life around us hides signs and codes of Divine principles.

Anyway. "Life" as we know it is a part of the entire journey of creation. The purpose of life is to know God, and to live life according to His Design.

Personally, the best example of this is in theater where a director creates both good and bad characters, and gives them a script to act on. The act on stage is similar to life - and "death" means real life, when the actor gets off the stage. Shakespeare understood this well when he said, "All the world's a stage/ and all the men and women merely players**."

Islam treats men and women equally in matters of faith, and respects their gender differences in a few social matters.

Now to your questions:
(1) what the purpose of one's going to heaven
A reward for the good they did in "life" - i.e. time on Earth
(2) what exactly the souls that go to heaven do
Enjoy Divine nearness, and understand the truth behind life. They enjoy a world without cause & effect, and extra dimensions - often portrayed as a grand fantastic place in the scriptures. They will enjoy pureness, and in the words of Quran, will not hear anything crass or tasteless.

It is said that there will be a time, however, when they will go in a state of foreverness. I understand that best with the analogy of a writer: we are a novel being written by a Just Writer: near the end, good guys get good things, bad guys get a bad end, but eventually the novel ends. The story ends then, but it stays in that state forever.

(3) whether women who believe in the religion also go to heaven and if so do they also get the reward there that men get there?
Women will go to Heaven, of course. Women are part of the one being that God created.... Chapter 4, line 1***. Islam address men and women equally in matters of faith. As for the "hoors," the beautiful celestial beings, I am not sure. I have only heard a couple of writers claim that hoors are not only the companions of Men. Yet this has weak support, and it may be that there are ifferent rewards for men and women. Yet the biggest reward is the sight of the Lord and the revelation of the secret of being. It is common to all - human and jinn males and females.

(4) How it is more important than the life on earth?
(5) Why god can not give that reward in this life on earth itself?
He can, but it's like writing the end of the story without writing a story; I hope my answer above answers this question. Life after earthly death is more imp as it is the actual destiny of Humankind etc. to meet their Lord; they will also be answerable about their choices. Also, God *does* give rewards to good deeds in life - one doesn't need any religion to believe that what goes round, comes round. And the basic good deeds, as understood by humanity regardless of religious beliefs, lead to good results - even if the results show themselves over time/ generations.

Yet this life is merely a pretext of the other. Once again, an actor was made an actor by virtue of acting. One could ask what's the purpose of finishing a play? Why doesn't the hero get the good end in the middle of the play? Why the play at all? Why not an Oscar just without it?

I read the interviews of J K Rowling, author of Harry Potter sometimes, and it astounds me how she sounds like God in some ways: she has written the end of the series, and is deciding who to kill or not in the story in the 7th book. She is not cruel; she is just a creator.****

The issue is how we perceive life; all the messgaes sent by God, inclusing Bhagwat Geeta and other ancient texts before Quran were to remind Humans of this reality.

Thank you for creating an opportunity to have Islam's view understood.

Answer 8

DEAR FRIEND...LIFE AFTER DEATH IS 99.9% OF THE LIFE THAT WE SPEND HERE ON EARTH...AND THE IRONY IS THAT OUR LIFE ON EARTH DETERMINES THE GOOD OR BAD OF OUR LIFE AFTER DEATH...I WILL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE...OF REWARD AND PUNISHMENT...IF A MAN KILLS HUNDRED HUMAN BEINGS AND IS CAUGHT AND PUNISHED BY THE LAW OF THE LAND...THE MAXIMUM PUNISHMENT CAN BE LIFE IMPRISONMENT OR DEATH PENALTY...BUT GOD PROMISES TO PUNISH FOR EACH HUMAN BEING THAT HE HAS KILLED...SAME IS THE RATIO OF REWARDS...
AND YES WOMEN WILL GET ALL THE GOODIES OF HEAVEN JUST AS MEN...GOD NEVER DISCRIMINATES REMEMBER...
EG. HERE ON EARTH WE ARE RECOGNISED BY OUR FATHERS SIRNAME...BUT ON JUDGEMENT DAY WE WILL BE CALLED UPON BY OUR MOTHERS NAME...IT IS GODS JUSTICE....SO JUST DO GOOD AND WORRY NOT ABOUT THE REWARDS IT WILL NATURALLY COME YOUR WAY IN THIS WORLD AS WELL AS THE NEXT...

Answer 9

In this way muslim fundamentalists innovate youths to be involved in terrorism and in this way their life spoil.As there is no reward in this life ,story of afterlife comes.

Answer 10

somthing no eye hase seen and no ear has heard