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Moreover, these verses, named the Qur'an, were made available to everybody and spread rapidly. This rapid spreading of Qur'an during 1334 years since the death of Mohammed(SAW) has also protected the Qur'an from all the causes of alteration and tampering. It is today available slightest difference in its innumerable copies.

Having such a source book of high authority is a distinction of Islam not shared by any other religion, making it possible for anyone at any time and place to understand it directly and immediately, protecting himself from any error in its understanding. 31: The Afterlife One of the teachings of the prophets is that man's existence does not cease with death. Death is only the end of the period of man's struggle and endeavour.

During this period he has to find out for himself with his own judgement the right path from the wrong and decide upon his course. He finds his conditions during this period in a state of flux and seeks to preserve it, if good, and to alter it for the better, if bad. With the advent of death, change gives way to eternity.

From then onwards his state is unalterable; it will be what he has made of it in his period of evaluation and endeavour and the afterlife is where he achieves the fruit of his struggle during the previous period. This is Islamic teaching about life and death and the hereafter.

"On that day shall men be scattered and see their works, and who has done an atom weight of good shall see it, and who has done an atom weight of evil shall see it." Holy Qur'an, Sura 99 : verses 6-8 32: Paradise and Hell What is paradise? It is the eternal home of the blessed and the blissful and of peace, a home which the righteous have prepared for themselves during their lifetime by honesty and sincerity and God pleasing endeavour. What is hell?

The abode of eternal pain and punishment which evildoers have built for themselves by taking the wrong path, doing evil and oppression and spreading wrong doing. 33: Other Teachings of Islam What has been said heretofore are the basic teachings of Islam. Islam has a lot of detailed teachings in other fields. On the one hand they depend on these basic teachings and on the other hand on individual, family and social needs of men spiritually as well as physically.