After Life

The fifth principle of Islamic faith is to believe in life after death. Believing in life after death is significant in several ways:

l . In Islam, death is not the end of life. Death is just a transition to the second life.

2. In Islam, human life does not end. It has two phases: a life before death and a life after death.

3. Believing in life after death makes a person more responsible for his deeds in the first life, because a person will be rewarded for his good deeds and punished for his bad deeds in the other life.

4. Life after death makes the whole thing look fair and just. You: honesty in this life may entail your poverty. Another person's dishonesty may entail his richness. If things end up this way, life looks so unreasonable and good behavior pays little. Fortunately, according to Islam, there is life after death, where each person is rewarded or punished for his deeds in the first life.

5. Life after death makes a person's life well-balanced. In Islam, a person must work for this life as if he lives forever and must work for the other life as if he dies tomorrow. In other words, a Muslim should work for this life bearing in mind that there is another life where he is questioned and rewarded or punished according to his deeds in the first life. Thus life is made to have an aim, r. e., obeying Allah and worshipping Him.