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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Our Belief Chapter 4: Resurrection and the Life After Death Without Resurrection, Life Is Void We believe that all men and women will be raised up on a certain day after death. They all will be judged, and those who are good and virtuous shall live in Paradise (the garden of bliss), and the sinners will join the fire in Hell. "Allah, there is no God but He.

Of a surety He will gather you all together in the resurrection day about which there is no doubt, and whose word can be truer than Allah?" (Holy Qur’an, 4:87) "As for he who transgressed and chose this present life, his abode will be Hellfire.

And as for those who feared to stand before their LORD, and restrained their souls from lusts, (low desires) their abode will be Paradise." (Holy Qur’an, 79:37) We believe that this world is only a bridge that man should pass over so as to join an eternal life; or in other words it may be a farm, to sow here and to harvest in the hereafter or else it may be taken as a market to provide for the next life to come.

About our life, Imam ‘Ali (a.s) says: "This world is a place of truth for him who confronts it with truthfulness. It is a house (means) for being free of want, for him who gathers provisions from it and stores for his next life. It is a place of awareness for him who takes advice from it.

It is the mosque of the friends of God, a place of worship for the angels; where God's inspiration is sent down, and a trade market for God's friends." The Reasons for The Resurrection are Clear Enough We believe that the reasons to prove the resurrection are very clear, because, it can easily be seen that this mortal life cannot be a reasonable object, and the final goal for such a creation; i.e.

to come and live here for a short period, living with immense hardships and difficulties, and then end to nothing or to some dusts! Is that what is meant by our complex creation? "Do you think that we have created you for nothing (in jest), and that you would not return to us?" (Holy Qur’an, 23:115) Secondly, in this world the evildoers are usually in one line with the beneficent and some times higher than equity which doesn't agree with the great justice of God.

So there must be a way to distinguish the bad from the good and the false from the truth. "Do the evildoers think that they are equal in our sight, with the believer who does good works, so that their lives and deaths are alike?