“Allah created the heavens and the earth and whatever lies between them in Truth and for an appointed term. Yet many people deny that they will meet their Lord. Have they not travelled through the earth that they may observe what was the end of their predecessors who were far mightier and tilled the land and built upon it more than these have ever built?”
(Al Qur’ān – 30:8-9)
The unbelievers reject the idea that after death they will have to return to and stand before their Lord for His judgement.
The ayah 30:9 presents an argument in support of the Hereafter. Throughout history a large number of people denied the notion of the Hereafter. There have been a very large number of people, in fact whole nations, who either denied the Hereafter or altogether disregarded it. There have also been others who fabricated totally false notions about it.
It is noteworthy, however, that all through history whenever the Hereafter was denied, it always led to moral corruption. It made people consider themselves to be devoid of all responsibility, thus making them unfettered brutes. They intermittently committed evil and brazenly perpetrated injustice and oppression. It was this which inexorably led many nations to be decimated.
Does this lesson from history down the ages not prove that the Afterlife is an incontrovertible reality, a reality whose denial entails disastrous consequences for mankind? When it is a proven fact that the rejection of the Afterlife has always led to man’s moral impairment, this should be a sufficient basis to affirm belief in the Afterlife.