Death is the beginning

[Wyrd of Gawd]

I was thinking seriously about death. The main reason was me visiting the ER, I'm not the patient though; somebody else is.
Death is flying around them, so it got me thinking seriously yet again.

I will tell what I believe; what I think.

I'm a Muslim. So death to me is actually the begging. That's how I think about it: the bitter gate to the long long life. It's when we sleep for moments to wake up elsewhere, where earth is not earth, the skies are not the skies, everything is different.

We get to meet the angels once we pass the gate of death. I don't know what happens then. But after then we sleep until the day we come back again, in a different existence, in a different day.

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Sura 6, The Quran:
( 93 )   And who is more unjust than one who invents a lie about Allah or says, "It has been inspired to me," while nothing has been inspired to him, and one who says, "I will reveal [something] like what Allah revealed." And if you could but see when the wrongdoers are in the overwhelming pangs of death while the angels extend their hands, [saying], "Discharge your souls! Today you will be awarded the punishment of [extreme] humiliation for what you used to say against Allah other than the truth and [that] you were, toward His verses, being arrogant."

( 94 )   [It will be said to them], "And you have certainly come to Us alone as We created you the first time, and you have left whatever We bestowed upon you behind you. And We do not see with you your 'intercessors' which you claimed that they were among you associates [of Allah]. It has [all] been severed between you, and lost from you is what you used to claim."

Life in this existence is more of a...desperate ride? if I can call it that. I mean we live young; knowing that we would leave someday. But we ignore the fact.

Sura 6, The Quran:
( 32 )   And the worldly life is not but amusement and diversion; but the home of the Hereafter is best for those who fear Allah, so will you not reason?

Sura 10, The Quran:
( 7 )   Indeed, those who do not expect the meeting with Us and are satisfied with the life of this world and feel secure therein and those who are heedless of Our signs

( 8 )   For those their refuge will be the Fire because of what they used to earn.

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Life is not a place of immortality. We know that we will die. Our existence goes side by side with bitter sorrow that any human would realize if they think about it.
That person was going to the ER some day all along; just like me and just like you. Every member here; I know your destiny. But it is "the stereotype" that prevents us from saying this to each other.

Do good before your death comes. I won't follow the stereotype and I will say it to you in the face: you will die. If you're lucky; you'll get to say good bye to your loved ones in the ER.

Then, you will see the angels. They don't look like Christians and Heathens imagined them. Then you wake up for judgement day. That's my belief.


You're not getting away with wrong deeds. Believe me.
Death is just the beginning.

The primary reason the average person has for believing in a deity is because the deity will supposedly reward the person with eternal life.  Of course there are other reasons, such as social, financial, and self-protection so that the fanatics won't kill you.  

On the scale of eternal lives the Islamic version isn't that bad.  It's better than the Christian version.  The Mormon version is the best.  If you really want a good deal then you should covert to Mormonism.  You will become a god with your own world and a huge harem.  It's better than a relatively small 60 mile wide pearl shell paradise.