Life after death & predestination and decree

Question 1

Belief in divine decree/predestination?

Answer 1

• imaan e muffasil + 5th article
• intro

-Qadr (destiny) “to measure and fix a limit”
+“verily we have created everything in equal measure and proportion”
-omnipotence and Omniscieence of Allah
+“To him belongs whatever is in the heavens and on the earth”
-supreme knowledge
+“He knows what is before and after and behind him”
-predestination + eg
+“He has the power to dispose of all affairs”
+“it is a matter already decreed” (birth of Isa) and “a matter already enacted” (victory at Badr)
-judgment
+“And when the earth is flattened out and casts forth what is within it and becomes clean”
-preserved tablet, ‘al lauh al mahfuz’
-humans can choose between right & wrong
-Alis example
+“God does not burden any human being with more than he is well able to bear”

Question 2

Belief in resurrection?

Answer 2

• imaan e muffasil & 6th article
• intro

-intermediate state Barzakh (lesser judgment)
+“before them is a partition (barzakh) till the day they are raised up”

-end of life on Qayamah
+“A day whereon men will be like moths scattered about and mountains like carded wool”
+“When the defeating blast is sounded, that day man will flee from his brother, his mother and his father”
+“one day we shall remove the mountains and you will see the earth as level”
+“every soul must taste of death”

-the resurrection (Hashr) of men, jinn, and angels
+“then will a second one be sounded when behold they will be standing and looking on! And the earth will shine with the glory of its Lord: the record of deeds will be placed open”
+“you were lifeless and he gave you life and he will cause you to die and will bring you again to life”

-judgment
+” and the book of deeds will be placed and you will ee the sinful in great terror because of what is therein”
+“Those who are given their record in their right hands will read it with pleasure”
+“And he that will be given his record in his left hand will say: Ah! Would that my record had not been given to me”

-Al Sirat bridge across hell to paradise
+“Then he whose scales are heavy shall be in a state of bliss and he whose scales are light shall have a deep pit for his dwelling”

-heaven and hell are real