The life in the World and the afterlife
- The life in the World is only very little in comparison to the next afterlife when man will live for millions of years and is not going to die once again.
This is in the Quran 23: 112-114
قَالَ كَمْ لَبِثْتُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ عَدَدَ سِنِينَ . قَالُوا لَبِثْنَا يَوْمًا أَوْ بَعْضَ يَوْمٍ فَاسْأَلْ الْعَادِّينَ . قَالَ إِن لَّبِثْتُمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا لَّوْ أَنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ
The explanation:
(He will say: "For how long have you [deniers of the Hereafter] tarried in the earth, by number of years?"
They will say: "We have tarried merely a day or part of a day, but inquire of those who count [the days and years.]"
He will say: "You have not tarried but a little, if you had only known [the truth.]")
- The life of the World is so trivial in comparison to the next afterlife; it is only playing and pastime.
This is in the Quran 57: 20
اعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا لَعِبٌ وَلَهْوٌ وَزِينَةٌ وَتَفَاخُرٌ بَيْنَكُمْ وَتَكَاثُرٌ فِي الْأَمْوَالِ وَالْأَوْلَادِ كَمَثَلِ غَيْثٍ أَعْجَبَ الْكُفَّارَ نَبَاتُهُ ثُمَّ يَهِيجُ فَتَرَاهُ مُصْفَرًّا ثُمَّ يَكُونُ حُطَامًا وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ شَدِيدٌ وَمَغْفِرَةٌ مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَرِضْوَانٌ وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورِ
The explanation:
([O people] know that the life of the World is but playing, diversion, adornment, boasting among you, and a rivalry in having more wealth and children;
It is as a rain whose vegetation delights the tillers, then [after draught] it is withered [by the wind], and you see it turning yellow, then it becomes broken fragment.
In the Hereafter there will be severe chastisement, and [there will be] forgiveness and good pleasure of God; surely the life of the World is but chattels of deception.)
- In general the life in the World (where man lives with his material body) is only an opportunity to acquire good faith and good righteous work in preparation for the next afterlife where man will live for millions of years (with his ethereal soul without his material body.)
This is in the Quran 59: 18
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَلْتَنظُرْ نَفْسٌ مَّا قَدَّمَتْ لِغَدٍ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ
The explanation:
(O believers, ward off God['s disobedience];
let every soul consider what [good work] it has forwarded for tomorrow [following death.]
And ward off [the disobedience of the messenger of] God;
[for] God is Most Aware of [all] that you do.)
- So the Worldly life resembles a respite for man (until he reaches his appointment of death) then this respite will end, and no more chance for additional work reward may be given, so that man may be able to change his gain of the righteous work and moderate his evil work to some better work.
God – be glorified – said in the Quran 35: 37 about the associaters in Hell:
وَهُمْ يَصْطَرِخُونَ فِيهَا رَبَّنَا أَخْرِجْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَالِحًا غَيْرَ الَّذِي كُنَّا نَعْمَلُ أَوَلَمْ نُعَمِّرْكُم مَّا يَتَذَكَّرُ فِيهِ مَن تَذَكَّرَ وَجَاءكُمُ النَّذِيرُ فَذُوقُوا فَمَا لِلظَّالِمِينَ مِن نَّصِيرٍ
The explanation:
(And they [will] cry therein [saying:] "Our Lord, release us; we will do righteous [work], not [the evil] that we used to do."
[And it will be said to them:] "But did not We grant you a life long enough therein for him who would receive admonition? And [the prophet:] the warner came to you.
Now suffer [the torment], for wrong-doers have no helper.)
man-after-death.t35.com/1.htm#The_Hereafter_Is_Better_and_more_Enduring
'the broken trees of the World.)
