Life After Death ... Where Next?

“Death might be a sleep of unconsciousness, but it is only temporary. For those who trust in God to keep His promises, eternal life without death awaits.”

Every now and again we here the question, what is the meaning of life? Or what is the motive of life? Or ‘Why we are born?’ from a spiritual point of view the reasons are ‘To give and take account we have with various people’ and ‘To make spiritual progress with the final aim of merging into God’. But what happens after death?

Death is considered a certainty, to the point that you would fail to find any relevent person who would defy it. Death is a big mystery. It is subject that touches the life of every man and woman. Human beings are totally powerless to prevent or overcome death. Our mightiest efforts to defend ourselves from the grave, its ultimately result is failure. Everyone dies. The rich and the poor get the same end. The black and the white both go to the grave. The powerful and powerless both leave this place eventually.

“No one is promised tomorrow. The only thing we can count on is today”

So what, exactly, happens when we die? Heaven?  Hell?  Nothing? What will combat man after death? What will become of him in the grave? How will he rise again on the Day of Judgment? These all are those things, which we have not yet witnessed. But Allah has made all these things clear to us in detail through His Prophets (A.S) and lastly through Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W.W) and Allah has repeatedly gave references in the Holy Qur’an. So it is very important for the Muslims to believe in ALLAH and on the Day of Judgment.

The Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W.) once said: 

 

“After our death windows will open up in the grave; for the pious people, windows open from heaven, and for the wicked people they open towards hell.”

  

Allah tells us that we won’t find ourselves being judged the very next day after we die. Instead, judgment will take place in such a distant future that our previous lives will seem like a matter of a few seconds to us. In short, man's doomsday is described as a change that he cannot interact with and an event that is as convincing as his existence here on earth. All these aspects have been explained in detail in the Holy Quran.

Almighty Allah states in the Holy Qur’an:

“I swear by the Day of Resurrection; and I swear by the self reproaching person (a believer. Does man (a disbeliever) think that We shall not assemble his bones? Yes, we are able to put together in perfect order the tips of his fingers. Nay! man denies resurrection and Reckoning. So he desires to continue committing sins.” 

The grave is actually is a mid phase of existence between this life and the life to come. Here, spiritual life will progress slowly through many stages until it reaches its destiny.