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In Islamic belief, death is predetermined by God, and the exact time of a person's death is known only to God. Death is accepted as wholly natural, and merely marks a transition between the material realm and the unseen world.
Islamic funerals (Arabic: جنازة, romanized: Janāzah) follow fairly specific rites, though they are subject to regional interpretation and variation in custom. In all cases, however, sharia (Islamic religious law ) calls for burial of the body as soon as possible.
The Islamic view is that death is the separation of the soul from the body as well as the beginning of the afterlife. [153] The afterlife, or akhirah, is one of the six main beliefs in Islam. Rather than seeing death as the end of life, Muslims consider death as a continuation of life in another form. [154]
Islam elaborated further narratives concerning the relation between Azrael and Death. Christian Lange mentioned that according to some scholars Azrael and Death were one entity; other exegesis scholars opined Azrael and Death were different entities, with Death as some kind of tool used by Azrael to take life. [37]: 129
al-Ākhirah (Arabic: الآخرة, derived from Akhir which means last, ultimate, end or close) [1] [2] is an Arabic term for "the Hereafter". [3] [4]In Islamic eschatology, on Judgment Day, the natural or temporal world will come to an end, the dead will be resurrected from their graves, and God will pronounce judgment on their deeds, [5] [6] consigning them for eternity to either the bliss ...
In mainstream Sunni and Shia Islam, Barzakh has been defined as "an intermediary stage between this life and another life in the Hereafter"; [6] "an interval or a break between individual death and resurrection"; [7] "The Stage Between this World and the Hereafter"; [8] the period between a person's death and his resurrection on the Day of ...
A Pakistani court sentenced a 22-year-old student to death and gave a teenager a life sentence in two separate cases after finding them guilty of insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad, a defense ...
Punishment of the Grave (Arabic: عذاب القبر, romanized: ʿadhāb al-qabr, also translated Torment of the Grave) is a Judeo-Islamic concept about the time between death and resurrection on the Day of Judgement.