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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Basic Beliefs of Islam Chapter 20 : Third Phase of Our Existence Life After Death Our third phase of life or the third stage of our existence is the life af ter death. World of Souls (Alam-e-Arwah) - Womb of Mother - Physical World - World of Soul (Barzakh) What is life and death ? Many scientists do not believe in the existence of the Master of the universe. They think that all living beings in the world are the accidental products of Darwin's evolution.

The inevitable outcome of this baseless faith is that everything is for nothing. Such mindless people can never comprehend the philosophy of life and death. That is the reason that Western scientists who have discovered a large number of facts about life and death know very little about life. They admit that they can not give one simple definition of life that can appropriately cover all its aspects.

We find this confession in all standard books of biology that scientists can not define life because they can not locate the dividing line between the living and non-living things. For example, a virus is a lifeless particle by itself, but it becomes active and multiplies rapidly when invades in a living cell. i.e., the virus has the characteristics of both living and non-living species.

Thus, scientists openly confess that they can not give a precise definition of life and can only give some common characteristics of living creatures. So when scientists cannot even define life, how can they create life. Test-tube baby, surro- gate motherhood or cloning are nothing but the manipulation of natural bir th mechanism. Similarly, scientists cannot comprehend the philosophy of death. They say, death is the end of all life processes in an organism.

But they can not say anything about what makes the life process to cease. Today, surgeon can transplant almost every organ of the human body if it starts malfunctioning. This means that they should be able to avoid death as it is always caused by the malfunctioning of any organ. But we all know that despite the tremendous progress in surgery and medicine, the life span is more or less the same as it was 100 years ago. So, scientist can neither create life nor can they stop occurrence of death.

This fact reveals the actual nature of life and death. "Blessed be He in Whose hands is all sovereignty: He has power over all things.