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1 cze 2014 · The essays in this volume explore what the Bible and Qur'an—and the Christian and Islamic theological traditions—have to say about death, resurrection, and human destiny. Other essays explore the notion of the good death, as well as explain the funeral practices of each tradition.
12 sty 2021 · The Gospel speaks of Jesus as “the light to illumine the heathen” (Luke 2:32), and the Apostles’ Creed calls him lumine de lumine, “light derived from light.”. The Qur’an echoes this idea: “Our Messenger [has] come to you …. A light and an elucidating 2 scripture have come to you from God” (5:15).
3 mar 2008 · Muslims firmly believe in life after death, we are reminded time and time again of this reality by God, the Exalted. He says: “O you who believe! Fear God and keep your duty to Him. And let every person look to what he has sent forth for tomorrow, and fear God. Verily, God is All-Aware of what you do.” (Quran 59:18)
8 maj 2021 · In line with the arguments of Islamic scholars discussed by Lange and Abuali, Madou insists that while God is ‘beyond darkness and light’, the performance of zikr nevertheless produces the effect that ‘You are within light’. This particular form of light, in other words, is constituted as a corporeal experience generated through nightly ...
Postmortem should not be allowed; the Prophet (PBUH¹) said “Breaking a bone of a dead person is like breaking a bone of a living person” (Tirmidhi). It is against the dignity of a Muslim. Immediately after the death, preparations are made for washing the body, shrouding, the funeral prayer and the burial.
Unlike the Christian view of the death of Jesus, most Muslims believe he was raised to Heaven without being put on the cross and God created a resemblance to appear exactly like Jesus who was crucified instead of Jesus, and he ascended bodily to Heaven, there to remain until his Second Coming in the End days.
23 sty 2020 · In the Islamic tradition, the case for God’s existence is solid in terms of its rational foundations as well as the purpose, meaning, comfort, and guidance that it gives to our lives. The Quran inspires conviction by appealing to the aspects of the inner life of human beings, namely, to the heart and the mind.
