Death
EVERY SELF WILL TASTE DEATH
Every self will taste death. We test you with both good and evil as a trial. And you will be returned to Us. (Qur'an, 21:35)
Then subsequently you will certainly die. (Qur'an, 23:15)
You will die and they too will die. (Qur'an, 39:30)
Allah created you and then will take you back again. And some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that after having knowledge, you know nothing at all. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (Qur'an, 16:70)
We did not give any human being before you immortality. And if you die, will they then be immortal? (Qur'an, 21:34)
No self can die except with Allah's permission, at a predetermined time. If anyone desires the reward of this world, We will give him some of it. If anyone desires the reward of the hereafter, We will give him some of it. We will recompense the thankful. (Qur'an, 3:145)
IT IS ALLAH WHO GIVES BOTH LIFE AND DEATH
That it is He Who brings about both death and life; (Qur'an, 53:44)
It is We Who give life and cause to die and We are the Inheritor. (Qur'an, 15:23)
It is We Who give life and cause to die and We are their final destination. (Qur'an, 50:43)
Allah is He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens and earth belongs. He gives life and causes to die. You have no protector or helper besides Allah. (Qur'an, 9:116)
There is no god but Him—He gives life and causes to die—your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers, the previous peoples. (Qur'an, 44:8)
We have decreed death for you and We will not be forestalled. (Qur'an, 56:60)
MAN MAY FACE DEATH UNEXPECTEDLY,
NO MATTER HOW MUCH HE MAY TRY TO ESCAPE IT
Say: 'Flight will not benefit you if you try to run away from death or being killed. Then you will only enjoy a short respite.' (Qur'an, 33:16)
Truly Allah has knowledge of the Hour and sends down abundant rain and knows what is in the womb. And no self knows what it will earn tomorrow and no self knows in what land it will die. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Qur'an, 31:34)
Wherever you are, death will catch up with you, even if you are in impregnable fortresses. If a good thing happens to them, they say, 'This has come from Allah.' But if a bad thing happens to them, they say, 'This has come from you.' Say, 'Everything comes from Allah.' What is the matter with these people that they scarcely understand a single word? (Qur'an, 4:78)
Say: 'Death, from which you are fleeing, will certainly catch up with you.Then you will be returned to the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible and He will inform you about what you did.' (Qur'an, 62:8)
ONLY THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN
ALLAH AND THE HEREAFTER FEAR DEATH
What do you think about those who left their homes in thousands in fear of death? Allah said to them, 'Die!' and then brought them back to life. Allah shows great favour to mankind, but most people are not grateful. (Qur'an, 2:243)
Or that of a storm-cloud in the sky, full of darkness, thunder and lightning. They put their fingers in their ears against the thunderclaps, fearful of death. Allah encompasses the unbelievers. (Qur'an, 2:19)
You were longing for death before you met it. Now you have seen it with your own eyes and you look (at it). (Qur'an, 3:143)
Those who believe say, 'If only a sura could be sent down.'But when a straightforward sura is sent down and fighting is mentioned in it,you see those with sickness in their hearts looking at you with the look of someone about to faint from fear of death.More fitting for them… (Qur'an, 47:20)
THE BELIEVERS DESIRE TO DIE AS MUSLIMS
You are only avenging yourself on us because we believed in our Lord's Signs when they came to us. Our Lord, pour down steadfastness upon us and take us back to You as Muslims.' (Qur'an, 7:126)
My Lord, You have granted power to me on earth and taught me the true meaning of events. Originator of the heavens and earth, You are my Friend in this world and the Next. So take me as a Muslim at my death and join me to the people who are righteous.' (Qur'an, 12:101)
Say: 'My prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for Allah alone, the Lord of all the worlds, (Qur'an, 6:162)
ALLAH DOES NOT ACCEPT THE REPENTANCE
OF THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE,
YET WHO REPENT WHEN THE MOMENT
OF DEATH COMES
There is no repentance for people who persist in doing evil until death comes to them and who then say, 'Now I repent,' nor for people who die while they are unbelievers. We have prepared for them a painful punishment. (Qur'an, 4:18)
ALLAH WILL PUNISH THOSE WHO DIE AS UNBELIEVERS
As for those who do not believe and die while they are unbelievers, the whole earth filled with gold would not be accepted from any of them if they were to offer it as a ransom. They will have a painful punishment. They will have no helpers. (Qur'an, 3:91)
EVERY ONE WILL BE RESURRECTED
He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living and brings the earth to life after it was dead. In the same way you too will be brought forth. (Qur'an, 30:19)
And saying, 'When we are dead and turned to dust and bones, shall we then be raised again or our forefathers, the earlier peoples?' Say: 'The earlier and the later peoples will certainly all be gathered to the appointment of a specified Day.' (Qur'an, 56:47-50)
ALLAH GIVES EXAMPLES FROM NATURE
FOR THE RISING AFTER DEATH
It is He Who sends out the winds, bringing advance news of His mercy, so that when they have lifted up the heavy clouds, We dispatch them to a dead land and send down water to it, by means of which We bring forth all kinds of fruit. In the same way We will bring forth the dead, so that hopefully you will pay heed. (Qur'an, 7:57)
He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living and brings the earth to life after it was dead. In the same way you too will be brought forth. (Qur'an, 30:19)
It is Allah Who sends the winds which raise the clouds which We then drive to a dead land and by them bring the earth to life after it was dead. That is how the Resurrection will be. (Qur'an, 35:9)
Allah is He Who splits the seed and kernel. He brings forth the living from the dead, and produces the dead out of the living. That is Allah, so how are you perverted? (Qur'an, 6:95)
A Sign for them is the dead land which We bring to life and from which We bring forth grain of which they eat. (Qur'an, 36:33)
And in the alternation of night and day and the provision Allah sends down from the sky, bringing the earth to life by it after it has died,and the varying direction of the winds,there are Signs for people who use their intellect. (Qur'an, 45:5)
Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from an alaq (embryo) then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind. (Qur'an, 22:5)
So look at the effect of the mercy of Allah, how He brings the dead earth back to life. Truly He is the One Who brings the dead to life. He has power over all things. (Qur'an, 30:50)
In the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the night and day, and the ships which sail the seas to people's benefit, and the water which Allah sends down from the sky— by which He brings the earth to life when it was dead and scatters about in it creatures of every kind— and the varying direction of the winds, and the clouds subservient between heaven and earth, there are Signs for people who use their intellect. (Qur'an, 2:164)
Allah sends down water from the sky and by it brings the dead earth back to life. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who hear. (Qur'an, 16:65)
Know that Allah brings the earth to life after it was dead. We have made the Signs clear to you so that hopefully you will use your intellect. (Qur'an, 57:17)
