Why Muslims dont fear Death ?

[Proud_Muslim]

Muslims believe that the present life is a trial in preparation for the next realm of existence. When a Muslim dies, he or she is washed and wrapped in a clean, white cloth (usually by a family member) and buried after a special prayer, preferably the same day. Muslims consider this a final service that they can do for their relatives and an opportunity to remember that their own existence here on earth is brief.

The question of whether there is life after death does not fall under the jurisdiction of science, as science is concerned only with classification and analysis of sense data. Moreover, man has been busy with scientific inquiries and research, in the modern sense of the term, only for the last few centuries, while he has been familiar with the concept of life after death since time immemorial.
All the Prophets of God called their people to worship God and to believe in life after death. They laid so much emphasis on the belief in life after death that even a slight doubt in it meant denying God and made all other beliefs meaningless.

The very fact that all the Prophets of God have dealt with this metaphysical question of life after death so confidently and so uniformly - the gap between their ages in some cases, being thousands of years - goes to prove that the source of their knowledge of life after death as proclaimed by them all, was the same, i.e. Divine revelation.

We also know that these Prophets of God were greatly opposed by their people, mainly on the issue of life after death, as their people thought it impossible. But in spite of opposition, the Prophets won many sincere followers.

The question arises: what made those followers forsake the established beliefs, traditions and customs of their forefathers, notwithstanding the risk of being totally alienated from their own community? The simple answer is: they made use of their faculties of mind and heart and realized the truth.

Did they realize the truth through perceptual consciousness? They couldn’t, as perceptual experience of life after death is impossible. God has given man besides perceptual consciousness, rational, aesthetic and moral consciousness too. It is this consciousness that guides man regarding realities that cannot be verified through sensory data. That is why all the Prophets of God while calling people to believe in God and life after death, appeal to the aesthetic, moral and rational consciousness of man.

Read the full article here:

http://www.islam-guide.com/life-after-death-by-wamy.htm

 

[DoctorNO]

Because:

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  Terrorist Suicidal Volunteers
  
  Rated R
  
  It's easy to understand why radical, fundamentalist Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide. Just look at their lifestyle:
  
  * No premarital sex.
  
  * No booze. None. Never.
  
  * No TV. No cable TV. No satellite TV.
  
  * No Spice channel. No Playboy channel. No ESPN.
  
  * No Hooters.
  
  * No Sports-Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
  
  * No organized sports of any kind. That's right -- no sports!!!.
  
  * Women have to be completely covered and wear veils. No thongs.
  
  * No Victoria's Secret stuff.
  
  * Very, very few cars. Camels. Lots of camels. Stinking, filthy camels.
  
  * Sand. fucking sand everywhere!
  
  * More sand.
  
  * Ever try to fish at an oasis? No bass boats. No bass. No fish.
  
  * Sandstorms. More fucking sand everywhere!
  
  * Rags for clothes and hats.
  
  * Camel and goat burgers cooked over burning camel-dung chips.
  
  * Eating with your right hand only -- because you wipe yourself with your left hand. Toilet tissue considered "decadent, Western."
  
  * Constant wailing from next door ... no...wait, that's their music!
  
  * And when you die it's supposed to all get better... No wonder they volunteer!"
  

 

[spuriousmonkey]

Muslims fear death.

Otherwise they wouldn't all be still alive.


(I nominate this thread for the cesspool)

 

[path]

Muslims fear death.

Otherwise they wouldn't all be still alive.


(I nominate this thread for the cesspool)

Oh foul monkey thou art most spurious indeed!

I agree with the monkey

 

[spidergoat]

Path, great avatar, that explains where the best of Proud Muslims's father's genes went. I just hope that's not a spidergoat.

"The question arises: what made those followers forsake the established beliefs, traditions and customs of their forefathers, notwithstanding the risk of being totally alienated from their own community"

They bought the con-job, like simple country rubes.

 

[mustafhakofi]

they dont fear death because there idiots
i'm one and i do because it's the only life i've got

 

[Thor]

Everyone fears death as much as they fear life. Some people just prefer one over the other.

 

[Dreamwalker]

I can only agree with everyone who posted here (not ProudM of course).

Perhaps Muslims are so faithful, their religious zeal makes them lose all fear.

But seriously, I just think they are friggin dumb.
Must be all that heat and sand, driving them mad.

 

[Katazia]

Proud Muslim,

The question of whether there is life after death does not fall under the jurisdiction of science, as science is concerned only with classification and analysis of sense data.

No that is incorrect. The meaning of science is ‘knowledge’. Science doesn’t care how the knowledge is discovered, whether through senses or otherwise. The objective of science is the establishment of knowledge.

Your perception that science only uses sensory data is because no one has yet shown that there is any other type of data. If you had any real knowledge of other means of collecting data then it would become science.

Let’s be clear here – you are making claims for the supernatural and science cannot investigate the supernatural because as yet no one can detect it or show that it exists. That you claim it exists says more about your vivid imagination than truth. If someone can show anything supernatural exists then scientists would be only too pleased to investigate it. But so far it appears that it doesn’t exist so science can’t do anything about it. That isn’t a limitation of science but just a problem with people who think the supernatural does exist.

Moreover, man has been busy with scientific inquiries and research, in the modern sense of the term, only for the last few centuries, while he has been familiar with the concept of life after death since time immemorial.

And as an example of the two different types of thought – up until a few centuries ago everyone on the planet believed the world was flat and it took explorers in search of knowledge to discover that everyone had been wrong for so long.

Science is entirely about exploration and looking for real truth and has established well proven disciplines to help determine whether something is knowledge or not – the scientific method. There is as yet no other method superior to this for the establishment of knowledge. These procedures supercede and effectively replace all the ancient imprecise and religious based superstitions.

All the Prophets of God called their people to worship God and to believe in life after death. They laid so much emphasis on the belief in life after death that even a slight doubt in it meant denying God and made all other beliefs meaningless.

A good example of primitive and barbaric superstitions.

The very fact that all the Prophets of God have dealt with this metaphysical question of life after death so confidently and so uniformly - the gap between their ages in some cases, being thousands of years - goes to prove that the source of their knowledge of life after death as proclaimed by them all, was the same, i.e. Divine revelation.

And similarly the claim for thousands of years that the world was obviously flat was also deemed to be knowledge revealed by divine revelation. This clearly shows that claims of divine revelation are entirely useless.

We also know that these Prophets of God were greatly opposed by their people, mainly on the issue of life after death, as their people thought it impossible. But in spite of opposition, the Prophets won many sincere followers.

I think the British have a phrase for this – there is mug born every minute. Believing something is possible is entirely irrelevant if it cannot be shown to be truth.

The question arises: what made those followers forsake the established beliefs, traditions and customs of their forefathers, notwithstanding the risk of being totally alienated from their own community? The simple answer is: they made use of their faculties of mind and heart and realized the truth.

Yes and the extent of these deductions is quite revealing and seemingly logical. It was noted in early times that when people are alive they have a breath and dead things do not breathe. It was deduced that breath was the person’s soul or spirit that left the body when the person died. This idea was further extended to the idea of possession and evil spirits which were apparently everywhere and if you were not careful you could breathe in a bad spirit. Most diseases and illnesses were considered to be caused by these evil spirits. It is curious to relaize that they were close to truth had they known anything about airborne bacteria and viruses.

However, the superstition about breath being the soul became widespread and even the bible talks about God breathing life into Adam, and the breath of life etc, etc. Naturally we now know the real purpose of breath and that the superstition of a soul that survives after death is simple superstition and nonsense.

Note that the route of the word "soul" comes from "breath".

Did they realize the truth through perceptual consciousness? They couldn’t, as perceptual experience of life after death is impossible.

And since no one can possibly experience anything else then to claim there is a supernatural is just vivid imagination again.

God has given man besides perceptual consciousness, rational, aesthetic and moral consciousness too. It is this consciousness that guides man regarding realities that cannot be verified through sensory data.

And of course no such claimed realities can be verified as actually existing or having any effects – which makes them quite useless.

That is why all the Prophets of God while calling people to believe in God and life after death, appeal to the aesthetic, moral and rational consciousness of man.

Nonsense, if they appealed to the rational side then these silly ideas would be dismissed immediately.

Shall I critique the rest of the article or can you see enough here to understand the idiocy of these ideas?

Kat