Thank you, Radiance Viewsweekly, for the detailed editorial by Ejaz Ahmed Aslam, titling “Poisoning Atmosphere And preparing Ground for Genocide” (RadianceViewsweekly, 4th July 2026). Recently US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has claimed that in India preparations were on for a genocide. She reportedly said that India has reached the “eighth stage of genocide” against religious minorities in India.
This has been reported by a well-known journalist, Arfa Khanam Sherwani of The Wire in her telecast.
Chowdhry Nisar Ahmed
Noorullahpet, Ambur T.N.
Life after Death in Islam
The Qur’an (51:56) says that Allah has created man only for Ibadat.Ibadatmeans doing what Allah has enjoined and rejecting what He has forbidden in the Qur’an. It is considered the worship and service to Allah in Islam. According to Islam, the worldly life is a place of trial and to pass it he has to sincerely establish Ibadat resulting in his success and redemption in both the worlds.
The Qur’an says: “Allah has created death and life that He may try you, which of you is best in deeds.”(67:3) So the worldly life is a place of one’s self-preparation for redemption in the life after death as stated in the Qur’an: “No bearer of burdens can bear burden of another; man can get nothing except what he strives for.”(53:38-39)
The Qur’an says that Allah has breathed His Ruh (Spirit) into man (15:29, 32:9), enabling him live on earth. As soon as he dies, his Ruh transcends the next world wherein he is resurrected with fresh (next) body and the same Ruh into him. Consequently, the fresh body gets life in the next world.
There is a proof of next life with fresh body in the next world in the Qur’an: “Those who reject My (Allah’s) revelations shall be cast into the hell-fire as often as their skins are roasted through; I shall change them for fresh skins that they may taste (more) penalty.” (4:56)
According to the Qur’an (83:8,18-19), after a person’s death, he/she is next raised to life with his/her earlier Ruh and a fresh body and later placed in any one of the two abodes: (i) Illiyin and (ii) Sijjin. Illiyin is a magnificent place teemed with comfort, peace and pleasure and those who established Ibadat in this world will enter it with the Register of their deeds and enjoy them. Conversely,Sijjin is a Prison or Dungeon teemed with sorrow and penalty and those who denied Allah and His commands will enter it with the Register of their deeds and experience them.
On the Day of al-Hashr (mass gathering on the Day of Judgement), the inmates of Illiyin will be brought out and gathered together in a place wherefrom they will be sent to the Paradise for eternal life. Conversely, the inmates of Sijjin will be brought out and gathered together in a place wherefrom they will be consigned to the hell-fire for eternal torments. The gap between Illiyin and Paradise or the gap between Sijjin and hell-fire is called Alam-e- Barzakh. And the eternal life beginning from Illiyin to Paradise or from Sijjin to hell-fire is called the Life after Death.
Muhammad Abdus Samad
Ambari,Dhupdhara, Assam