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Wed 19 Apr, 2006 04:54 pm
But the soul does not survive death.
Psalm 146:4: ". . .he goes back to his ground; In that day his thoughts do perish."
Ecclesiastes 9:5,6: "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun."
So, what's your point?
neologist wrote:
So, what's your point?
please, i beg of you, don't ask him his point, i nearly had an aneurysm. trying to get through the first post
Sorry.
I keep doing that.
Forgive me. I have senior moments.
*the death of the seed is the start of life of the shoot; indeed, since it is like life itself, this death is created and well-ordered as much as is life
*..also must be the death that befalls human life, the most elevated level of life. And like a seed sown in the ground becomes a tree in the world of the air, so a man who is laid in the earth will surely produce the shoots of an everlasting life in the Intermediate Realm
We die .. perish.. but one bone .. goes on life as black box.. torment is done to this bone and spirit is related with this bone all the time.. Second life.. this bone like a seed comes to second life... and new body is constructed on that bone... Yes real Wisdom ..
World is wisdom place .. second life is power's place..
sorry it is long but..
7-They will come out of the graves with downcast eyes like an expanding swarm of locusts.
54-The Moon,7
So far we have seen what the Quran had to say about the process of creation following the Big Bang and the apocalyptic vision it contained. In this last chapter, our aim is to convey the descriptions the Quran contains about the hereafter.
In the verse above the unbelievers are reminded that they will be resurrected and that will be a difficult day for them. Imagine, billions of men rising from the dead, coming out of their graves! Confusion, perplexity, fear, remorse
Everybody on his own. The only help is from God. The day when high offices, families, riches and possessions have no value.. the day of no return!
The resurrected are likened to locusts, why particularly locusts? Recent researches benefiting of micro cameras conducted by a systematic observation on insects have given us an idea about the reason for the selection of locusts as example. To begin with swarms of locusts, billions of them together give the impressions of a vast rain cloud without end, a black mass stretching far and wide many kilometers! Locusts bury their eggs in the earth and their larvae spend some time under the ground before they eventually emerge to the surface.
Take for instance the locusts, part of the fauna of New England, USA; in the month of May of the year in which they attain their 17th year, these insects emerge from under the ground where they had been living for years and years. Suppose, you tell a man: "We'll shut you up in a dark cell without a wrist-watch and you'll have no contact whatsoever with the outside world and you'll be released at the end of the 17th day," it is very doubtful that he will be able to know exactly the time when he will be out. There is a similarity between locusts and men.
-After a long time
-Under the ground
-Altogether
-Densely crowded
-They rise to the surface of the earth
The parables and metaphors in the Quran are many. These figures of speech is to help us to understand better the hidden meanings of the verses.
43-And such are the parables we set forth for the people, but only those understand them who have knowledge.
29-TheFemale Spider,43
27-We have put forth for the people every kind of parable in this Quran that they may take heed.
39- The Throngs, 27
Piffle! Ya die, they bury you and yer worm food. That's all there is and there ain't no mo!
fishin' wrote:Piffle! Ya die, they bury you and yer worm food. That's all there is and there ain't no mo!
''Let us suppose there were to be some gifted writer who could write out in a single hour the confused and obliterated letters of three hundred thousand books on a single sheet without any error, omission or defect, complete and in the best form.
If someone were then to say to you that that writer could write out again from memory a book written by him that had fallen into the water and become obliterated, would you then say that he is unable, and would you not believe in his ability?'' BSN