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SUMMARY According to islamic tought, the afterlife was taken for granted by Allah because he created the heavens, the earth and the all creatures. He will revive them who produced them at the first, for He is Knower of every creation. Whic is the more difficult to create man, or the heavens and the earth, with all the creatures? Allah created the heavens and the earth, with all the creatures, and He can create worlds like these in infinity. To him is a small matter to raise man up for the Hereafter. Man's disobedience and folly are all the more surprising, seeing that -apart from Allah's greatness and mercy- man is himself such a puny creature, created out of something that is less than a drop in the vast ocean of existence. Yet man has the recklessnes to stand out and dispute with his Creator, and institute idle comparisons and he has forgotten the fact of his creation. The individual's existence didn't end with his death: He would be raised again to appear before the judgement-seat of God. This day man crying said: `Woe upon us! Who has raised us from our place of sleep? This is what the Beneficent did promise, and the messengers spoke the truth.` The dead will rise as in stupor, and they will be confused in the new conditions. They will gradually regain their memory and their personality. They will be reminded that Allah in His grace and mercy had already announced the Hereafter in their probationary lives, and the word of Allah's messengers, which then seemed so strange and remote, was true now being fulfilled. There are two doctrines of immortality In Islamic thought: Immortal-soul doctrine and reconstitotion -or ressurrectin- doctrine. Immortal-soul doctrine, in fact, is only a negative assertion: The soul doesn't die, but simply lives on. Ressurection is a positive assertion: The whole man, who has really died, is recalled to life by a new act of creation by Allh who originator of the heavens and the earth. The difference between immortality and ressurection, as variations within a theistic picture, becomes quiteseeondary. For if God has created souls of such a nature that they don't perish with the body, their capasity to survive bodily death is a gift of divine grace. It is a truly a gift of God's grace as would be his recreation of beings whom he had made naturally mortal. These are two different ways in which the Creator can bestow unending life upon his creatures. But in either case we are dependent upon him for our existence, both now and hereafter. For those theists who hold that the soul is naturally immortal also hold that the omnipotent God could if he wished abolish the souls that he has made. Their immortality doesn't give them independence over against their Creator. But only He sets them outside the natural mortality of physical organisms.