If we have already known that Allah created us to worship Him, we should know also that Allah had stated in His scriptures that He will resurrect us after death, recompense us for our deeds in this life.
By death, the human being passes from this temporary life to the life of retribution and eternity. When man's life time terminates, Allah orders the angel of death to put an end to his life. Thus, man suffers pains of death when his soul is taken out of his body. Had the man believed in Allah and obeyed Him, his soul will enjoy the abode of bliss (Paradise), but if the man is a disbeliever in Allah, who denies resurrection and retribution after death, his soul will suffer torment till the end of this worldly life when everything in this world will perish; and none will exist save Allah.
Dooms-day will begin, and Allah will resurrect all the creation. Every body will restitute its soul in the same form as it had been before, even the animals will be raised up again. Then every one will be retributed for his deeds, no difference whether be male or female, head or subordinate, rich or poor. No one will be wronged; everyone will have the reward for his deeds. Whosoever commits injustice, even against animals will be retributed. As for animals, they will not be questioned because they have no reason, and on that day all animals will be transferred to dust. Qur'an says
Those who disbelieve assert that they will not be raised again, say : Yea, verily, by my Lord! Ye will be raised again and then Ye will be informed of what you did, and that is easy for Allah (Tagabun : 7 ).
Human beings and jinn will be recompensed for their deeds; each one will have his share of reward or punishment according to what he had forwarded before. Believers who obeyed Allah and followed His messengers will be guided to the Gardens (Paradise), even if they were the poorest men; the unbelievers who denied faith will be led to Hell-fire, if they were the most noble and rich men in this worldly life. Allah stated in the Qur'an :
The most honourable of you in the Eyes of Allah, is he who is most pious.
The Garden (Paradise) is the abode of bliss; it is beyond description. It has 100 levels; each one of its dweller will stay in the level suitable to his grade in belief and his obedience to Allah. The lowest grade in the Paradise is better by 70 folds than all the worldly blessings which a most luxurious king may ever enjoy.
May Allah protect us from it. Hell-Fire is the abode of torment in the Here-after. It contains terrible kinds of torment and torture. Had death been possible in the Here-after, people would have died as soon as they see Hell-fire; but death occurs only once, when the human being passes from this worldly-life to the other coming life, and there is no death in the Here-after, even for the dwellers of Hell-Fire.
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