These are the folk of Pharaoh...

These are the folk of Pharaoh, who will then taste the severest of penalty in the Resurrection Day. They also are punished painfully in the Intermediate World:ِ ``They (i.e.

The people of Pharaoh) will be brought in front of the Fire in the morning and evening, and in the Day when the Final Judgement is established, it will be said:ِ (to the guards of Hell) cast you the people of Pharaoh to the hardest of torment.'' The above verses and many others, will prove that, whether Man be a believer or unbeliever, he will continue living after death, either in prosperity or anguish.

There are also many traditions narrated from the prophet and from the infallible Imams (AS), which not only proves the existence of [ 313 ] the Intermediate World, that gives also some details about how the life after death is. The opinion of the life after death and before Resurrection Day is accepted with unanimous approval of the learned and scholars of all Islamic sects, particularly the two main group of Sonni and Shiite.

It is generally believed that in the Intermediate World, the soul of Man will continue living in accompany with a new BODY; which is very much finer than the coarse material body that we have in the present world! A body perhaps made of electric or magnetic, or other kind of finer field like gravity. In Islamic literatures, this body is named, the SIMILAR BODY which is exactly the same as our material body in form and shape. It is also sometimes called the second body.

Some of the Islamic scholars and men of knowledge, have understood the Intermediate World to be similar to the world of sleep which is void of time and space. They say that the Finer Body or the Similar Body, already exists within us, and after death it will apear and manifest itself when it is separated from this material body. Some of the jurists are of opinion that, in the Intermediate World people are divided in there groups; the believers, the unbelievers, and the weaklings.