Transcript Life After Death 4

Life after Death
Islam and Life after Death
 Muslims believe: Everyone is accountable to God
 They must answer to him for their
misdeeds at the judgement
 Traditionally two angels, Munkir and
Nakir question the dead man as soon
as he is buried
Islam and Life after Death
 Muslims believe: At judgement the angel Israfil will
sound the last trumpet and the final
judgement will be made
 ‘A day when men will be like moths
scattered’
Islam and Life after Death
 Muslims believe: ‘A day when the sun shall be folded,
the books unrolled, hell shall be
kindled, paradise brought near and
the soul shall know what it has done’.
 There is a tradition of a bridge (Sirat)
which is as fine as a hair and sharper
than a blade.
Islam and Life after Death
 Muslims believe: This bridge is stretched over the
depths of hell
 Those who have done good things in
this life and been faithful Muslims
pass across easily to heaven
 According to the same tradition, the
unjust and unfaithful cannot cross the
bridge and must go to hell
Islam and Life after Death
 Muslims believe: There are seven grades of hell – the lowest
reserved for the hypocrite who has claimed
to believe the faith of Islam, but in practice
has been unfaithful
 Even those condemned to hell may
eventually rise to heaven provided that
they have as much as a grain of genuine
faith in their hearts