Is there life after death? We don’t know, and we have no way of finding out, short of somebody dying, getting resurrected and telling us what is on the other side (and in that case, nobody will believe that he died in the first place).
So this is something we will never know. However, the default position has to be that what we see is all there is. Unless somebody can produce convincing proof of after life, the only reasonable, logical position is that there is no after life.
There are probably several hundred versions of afterlife floating around. Fundamentalist Muslim concept of Heaven (where terrorists are supposedly rewarded with 72 virgins), or Christian concept of Heaven and Hell (where anybody how does not believe in Christ suffers eternal torture, eternal damnation), Hindu concept of ‘nirvana’ etc. How do we know which is the right one?
Until somebody proves to me otherwise, I take the only logical position that there is n afterlife.
This is in the Quran 22: 5-7
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِن كُنتُمْ فِي رَيْبٍ مِّنَ الْبَعْثِ فَإِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ مِنْ عَلَقَةٍ ثُمَّ مِن مُّضْغَةٍ مُّخَلَّقَةٍ وَغَيْرِ مُخَلَّقَةٍ لِّنُبَيِّنَ لَكُمْ وَنُقِرُّ فِي الْأَرْحَامِ مَا نَشَاء إِلَى أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ثُمَّ نُخْرِجُكُمْ طِفْلًا ثُمَّ لِتَبْلُغُوا أَشُدَّكُمْ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُتَوَفَّى وَمِنكُم مَّن يُرَدُّ إِلَى أَرْذَلِ الْعُمُرِ لِكَيْلَا يَعْلَمَ مِن بَعْدِ عِلْمٍ شَيْئًا...الخ
The explanation:
(If you [people] are in doubt about the sending forth [of souls to the 'gathering together' in the Hereafter], then [know that]:
[1] We created you from soil [or earth],
then from scanty fluid [: semen], then from clot, then from a 'morsel of flesh': completely created and incompletely created, [these are the stages of the development of the embryo in the womb]
and We keep in the wombs whatever We want to an appointed time [of birth],
then We take you out [of your mothers' wombs] as child [after another],
then that you may attain your [age of] full strength,
and some of you are called to die,
and some may be let to attain his lowliest elderly that he may not – following his knowledge – know anything.
[2] You even may see the land desolate but when We send the water down on it, it quivers [with the plant], and swells and grows every pleasant kind [of plant.]
That is because God – He is the Truth, and brings the dead to life, and is powerful over everything.
And that the Hour [of death] is coming without any doubt;
and that God will send forth [to the "Gathering-together" and Judgment] those who are in graves.)
More explanation:
(We created you from soil) because most of the nutrient substances are the plants which originated in the soil; then when man eats the fruits and plant products it will be part of his body and lead to the formation of the sperms of the semen.
Therefore, the one that is Most Able to create man from earth, then won't He be Able to send people to the next life?
Another example is the desolate land which is dry, cracked and having no plant; then when the rain comes on such land, it will move with the plant, and will increase by the nitrogen of the air and the carbon dioxide which has been molten by the rain. Then this land will produce various kinds of fruits delightful to the sight.
The one that revives such dead land, won't He be Able to send people to the next life?
