People are blindly ignorant about the Afterlife

[Torch light]

The certain belief about the Next Life

is a distinguishing mark of the believer from the non-believer; see the explanation of the following Quran aya 34: 21

(Yet [Satan] had no authority over themy, but only that We would know [and distinguish] the one believing in the Next Life from the one doubting about itz; surely your Lord [O Mohammed] is All-Observing of everything.a a)
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21 y To compel them to disbelief, but only [he deceived them] with his suggestions. And We in fact did not leave them to him, but only that We …

21 z So that We may reward the believer according to his belief and punish the doubting one according to his disbelief and disobedience.

21 a a So that He does not miss any of their acts and conditions.

See more explanation here:
http://quran-ayat.com/pret/34.htm#a34_21
quran-ayat.com/pret/34.htm#a34_21

 

[Torch light]

A better way of explaining the meaning of the aya [in the previous post]:

The interpretation is by Mohammed-Ali Hassan Al-Hilly:

Quran 34: 21
(Yet [Satan] had no authority over them) to compel them to disbelief, but [he only deceived them] with his suggestions [and they obeyed him.]

And We in fact did not leave them [exposed to his suggestions] (but only that We would know [and distinguish] the one believing in the Next Life from the one doubting about it)
So that We may reward the believer according to his belief and punish the doubting one according to his disbelief and disobedience.

(Surely your Lord [O Mohammed] is All-Observing of everything) so that He does not miss any of their acts and conditions.

http://quran-ayat.com/pret/34.htm#a34_21
quran-ayat.com/pret/34.htm#a34_21

 

[Torch light]

What is death?

"Death is not the disappearance of man from existence, as do most people think, but death is the separation of the soul from the body; i.e. separation of the ethereal skeleton from the material skeleton."

Quran 40: 18, which means:
(Warn them, [O Mohammed, of the punishment] of the Day of the Imminent a [hour of their death]:

When – concealing [their terror and being powerless b] – their hearts will be at extreme terror.

And wrong-doers will have no ‘intimate friend’ [to save them] nor an intercessor c to be obeyed.)
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18 a Which is the last hour of their life, when they will see the angels of death, seizing their souls out of their bodies.

18 b i.e. they will conceal their terror within themselves, and will not have any way to be saved from the punishment.

18 c Whose intercession may be accepted about them.

http://www.quran-ayat.com/man/index.htm#What_Is_Death_
quran-ayat.com/man/index.htm#What_Is_Death_

 

[Torch light]

The Day of Sighing:

The "Day of the Imminent [hour of their death]" is told in the Quran with another expression: the "Day of Sighing"

Quran 19: 39, which means:
(And warn them [O Mohammed] of the Day of Sighing l, when the matter will be concluded [by death] m.

And even [today] they are heedless [of the Next Life], and they will never believe [whatever you may warn and frighten them, till they face the painful punishment.])
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39 l Which is the day when they will go from the World to the Afterlife, by the separation of the soul from the body, and they will regret for the time that they spent in the life of the World without accepting the belief and without doing the righteous acts.

39 m Then neither will their belief be accepted if they believe afterwards, nor will their acts avail them anything, whatever they may act.

http://quran-ayat.com/pret/19.htm#a19_39
quran-ayat.com/pret/19.htm#a19_39