Is there any way out [of this plight]?

Is there any way out [of this plight]?” [^3] The latter verse quotes those sentenced to Hell and unambiguously points out that humankind experience two deaths: one to the life of this world and another to the life of the Intermediate World [ barzakh ]. The first objection that this friend states is the problem of determinism. But if determinism is to pose a problem, a multiplicity of lives would not solve it. Suppose a person is reincarnated 100 times, and each time he commits a sin—say, murder.

In such a case, the determinist will still hold that the punishment that the individual in question will receive on account of…