Resurrection and the Afterlife

Based on Said Nursi's Risale-i Nur, this work presents a scientific and logical argument for the validity of one of religion's main elements of faith: belief in the resurrection and the afterlife.

Foreword

i

The Meaning of Existence and Life

1

(26)

There is no trial and error in nature

1

(3)

The universe is an inseparable whole

4

(1)

Matter and chance

5

(3)

What a falling stone means

8

(5)

Conclusion

13

(3)

Life: Its value and purposes

16

(2)

Life in the words of a scientist

18

(2)

The value of human life and its purposes

20

(3)

The nature and aims of human life

23

(4)

Benefits of Belief in the Resurrection and the Afterlife

27

(30)

Modern people in the swamp of modern materialistic life

31

(4)

Life with and without belief, particularly belief in the Hereafter

35

(2)

A reflection (by Said Nursi) on life with and without belief in the Resurrection

37

(2)

Belief in the Resurrection makes death lovable

39

(4)

The world with its three facets

43

(2)

Benefits of belief in the afterlife for society and people

45

(4)

A warning and lesson given to a group of unhappy young people

49

(4)

A consolation to a father on the death of his child

53

(4)

Rational and Scientific Arguments

57

(38)

Rational arguments

60

(15)

Scientific arguments

75

(20)

The Spirit

95

(16)

The cry of a heart dissatisfied with the passing world in yearining for eternity

105

(6)

Theological and Qur'anic Arguments

111

(30)

Theological arguments

111

(21)

Qur'anic arguments

132

(9)

Belief in the Resurrection and the Afterlife Is Universal

141

(38)

Belief in the afterlife in non-Islamic societies

141

(32)

The Resurrection of the body

173

(6)

Eschatology in Islam

179

(26)

The language of the Divine Scriptures and the Prophetic Traditions

180

(15)

Death and the spirit after death

195

(3)

The spirit in the intermediate world

198

(4)

Sending gifts to the spirit after death

202

(3)

Questions

205

(42)

Answers to questions about Paradise

220

(6)

Questions on varoius theological matters

226

(21)

Index

247

(10)

Selected Bibliography

257

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Resurrection and the Afterlife

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