Seriously, what are your beliefs?

Question

About an afterlife, if you do believe there is one? How do you envision it to be? Or if you don't believe there's one, what do you believe then?

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Answer 1

i think i do

Answer 2

i'm a muslim and yeah, i do believe in the after-life..

Hope this meets your expectation..sorry for the kinda long explanation..

Everyone is scared of dying and rightly so. The uncertainty of what lies beyond is frightening. It may be that of all religions, Islam, provides the most graphic details of what comes after death and lies beyond. Islam views death to be a natural threshold to the next stage of existence.

Islamic doctrine holds that human existence continues after the death of the human body in the form of spiritual and physical resurrection. There is a direct relation between conduct on earth and the life beyond. The afterlife will be one of rewards and punishments which is commensurate with earthily conduct. A Day will come when God will resurrect and gather the first and the last of His creation and judge everyone justly. People will enter their final abode, h**l or Paradise. Faith in life after death urges us to do right and to stay away from sin. In this life we sometimes see the pious suffer and the impious enjoy. All shall be judged one day and justice will be served.

Faith in life after death is one of the six fundamental beliefs required of a Muslim to complete his faith. Rejecting it renders all other beliefs meaningless. Think of a child who does not put his hand in fire. He does not do so because he is sure it will burn. When it comes to doing school work, the same child may feel lazy because he does not quite understand what a sound education will do for his future. Now, think of a man who does not believe in the Day of Judgment. Would he consider belief in God and a life driven by his belief in God to be of any consequence? To him, neither obedience to God is of use, nor is disobedience of any harm. How, then, can he live a God-conscious life? What incentive would he have to suffer the trials of life with patience and avoid overindulgence in worldly pleasures? And if a man does not follow the way of God, then what use is his belief in God, if he has any? The acceptance or rejection of life after death is perhaps the greatest factor in determining the course of an individual’s life.

The dead have a continued and conscious existence of a kind in the grave. Muslims believe that, upon dieing, a person enters an intermediate phase of life between death and resurrection. Many events take place in this new “world”, such as the “trial” of the grave, where everyone will be questioned by angels about their religion, prophet, and Lord. The grave is a garden of paradise or a pit of h**l; angels of mercy visit the souls of believers and angels of punishment come for the unbelievers.

Resurrection will be preceded by the end of the world. God will command a magnificent angel to blow the Horn. At its first blowing, all the inhabitants of the heavens and the earth will fall unconscious, except those spared by God. The earth will be flattened, the mountains turned into dust, the sky will crack, planets will be dispersed, and the graves overturned.

People will be resurrected into their original physical bodies from their graves, thereby entering the third and final phase of life. The Horn will blow again upon which people will rise up from their graves, resurrected!

God will gather all humans, believers and the impious, jinns, demons, even wild animals. It will be a universal gathering. The angels will drive all human beings naked, uncircumcised, and bare-footed to the Great Plain of Gathering. People will stand in wait for judgment and humanity will sweat in agony. The righteous will be sheltered under the shade of God’s Magnificent Throne.

When the condition becomes unbearable, people will request the prophets and the messengers to intercede with God on their behalf to save them from distress.

The balances will be set and the deeds of men will be weighed. Disclosure of the Records of the deeds performed in this life will follow. The one who will receive his record in his right hand will have an easy reckoning. He will happily return to his family. However, the person who will receive his record in his left hand would wish he were dead as he will be thrown into the Fire. He will be full of regrets and will wish that he were not handed his Record or he had not known it.

Then God will judge His creation. They will be reminded and informed of their good deeds and sins. The faithful will acknowledge their failings and be forgiven. The disbelievers will have no good deeds to declare because an unbeliever is rewarded for them in this life. Some scholars are of the opinion that the punishment of an unbeliever may be reduced in lieu of his good deeds, except the punishment of the great sin of disbelief.

The Siraat is a bridge that will be established over h**l extending to Paradise. Anyone who is steadfast on God’s religion in this life will find it easy to pass it.

Paradise and h**l will be the final dwelling places for the faithful and the damned after the Last Judgment. They are real and eternal. The bliss of the people of Paradise shall never end and the punishment of unbelievers condemned to h**l shall never cease. Unlike a pass-fail system in some other belief-systems, the Islamic view is more sophisticated and conveys a higher level of divine justice. This can be seen in two ways. First, some believers may suffer in h**l for unrepented, cardinal sins. Second, both Paradise and h**l have levels.

Paradise is the eternal garden of physical pleasures and spiritual delights. Suffering will be absent and bodily desires will be satisfied. All wishes will be met. Palaces, servants, riches, streams of wine, milk and honey, pleasant fragrances, soothing voices, pure partners for intimacy; a person will never get bored or have enough!

The greatest bliss, though, will be the vision of their Lord of which the unbelievers will be deprived.

h**l is an infernal place of punishment for unbelievers and purification for sinful believers. Torture and punishment: for the body and the soul: burning by fire, boiling water to drink, scalding food to eat, chains, and choking columns of fire. Unbelievers will be eternally damned to it, whereas sinful believers will eventually be taken out of h**l and enter Paradise.

Paradise is for those who worshipped God alone, believed and followed their prophet, and lived moral lives according to the teachings of scripture.

h**l will be the final dwelling place of those who denied God, worshipped other beings besides God, rejected the call of the prophets, and lead sinful, unrepentant lives.

Answer 3

When I was younger, I used to think that once you're gone you'll be up in the clouds looking down on what's going on in the world & checking up on loved ones.

When I was a little bit older, I would think that we would be wandering among the living once we are on the other side.

Nowadays, as I get older I just think that when it's time it just turns black & end of story. But that's just me.

Answer 4

the lyrics of this song answers about my belief:

I believe for every drop of rain that falls

A flower grows.

I believe that somewhere in the darkest night

A candle glows.

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come

To show the way

I believe, I believe.

I believe above a storm the smallest prayer

Can still be heard.

I believe that someone in the great somewhere

Hears every word.

Everytime I hear a new born baby cry,

Or touch a leaf or see the sky

Then I know why, I believe.

Answer 5

I believe in the existance of One Mighty God ... whatever you call Him either Allah, Father, Jah, or God ... i believe He who created us must have done it with purpose ... not for His own pleasure.

Life thereafter for me is real ... same as i believe my body functions because i have soul ... and i have a brain eventhough i never see my brain ... Life here or after is very complicated ... but the truth is closer than ur neck ... we are here to serve God ... and the reward will the afterlife ...

*macam-macam jalan ke syurga  

Answer 6

I'm kinda hanging here, not sure about afterlife or life thereafter, whatever it called.

All I know, what I do here while still breathing is what matters most.

In Islam, if I've been a bad person, I will be tortured in my grave, vice versa.

Well, whatever it is, even if there is no torture involved later, there are no good reason for me to be a devil now.

Life is short, I just wanna have great time with my life and being love by the one I loved.

Answer 7

The after life ?   That is when people talk about you after you are gone - your name. actions, personality, etc.... lives on, and they may have a great inluence on other people....so be good while it is not too late.....

So, for you, you will be known as a copy cat...

Answer 8

We all have it comin, so let it come.

Answer 9

I was thinking of the same and i have no clue..............but something tells me i'll be having a few beers up there with Bean and looking whats happening down here................

Answer 10

You really wanna know? ok I'll tell you mine. Give me ur feedback.

I don't believe in afterlife, I believe when we die, we die, we're gone. Our bodies are buried or cremated. I believe afterlife was created because of mankind's natural fear of death. If people who believe in afterlife were about to die, they are not so scared as they are expecting to go to somewhere...

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I know you're a very very strong Christ believer. :-)

Answer 11

when we die... means its the end.. i dont believe in after  life... i,m with gabby...