Resurrection and the Afterlife,9780970437006

Resurrection and the Afterlife

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ISBN13: 9780970437006
ISBN10: 0970437005
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-09-01
Publisher(s): Natl Book Network
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Summary

Based on Said Nursi's Risale-i Nur, this work presents a scientific and logical argument for the validity of one of religion's main elements of faith: belief in the resurrection and the afterlife.

Table of Contents

Foreword i
The Meaning of Existence and Life
1(26)
There is no trial and error in nature
1(3)
The universe is an inseparable whole
4(1)
Matter and chance
5(3)
What a falling stone means
8(5)
Conclusion
13(3)
Life: Its value and purposes
16(2)
Life in the words of a scientist
18(2)
The value of human life and its purposes
20(3)
The nature and aims of human life
23(4)
Benefits of Belief in the Resurrection and the Afterlife
27(30)
Modern people in the swamp of modern materialistic life
31(4)
Life with and without belief, particularly belief in the Hereafter
35(2)
A reflection (by Said Nursi) on life with and without belief in the Resurrection
37(2)
Belief in the Resurrection makes death lovable
39(4)
The world with its three facets
43(2)
Benefits of belief in the afterlife for society and people
45(4)
A warning and lesson given to a group of unhappy young people
49(4)
A consolation to a father on the death of his child
53(4)
Rational and Scientific Arguments
57(38)
Rational arguments
60(15)
Scientific arguments
75(20)
The Spirit
95(16)
The cry of a heart dissatisfied with the passing world in yearining for eternity
105(6)
Theological and Qur'anic Arguments
111(30)
Theological arguments
111(21)
Qur'anic arguments
132(9)
Belief in the Resurrection and the Afterlife Is Universal
141(38)
Belief in the afterlife in non-Islamic societies
141(32)
The Resurrection of the body
173(6)
Eschatology in Islam
179(26)
The language of the Divine Scriptures and the Prophetic Traditions
180(15)
Death and the spirit after death
195(3)
The spirit in the intermediate world
198(4)
Sending gifts to the spirit after death
202(3)
Questions
205(42)
Answers to questions about Paradise
220(6)
Questions on varoius theological matters
226(21)
Index 247(10)
Selected Bibliography 257

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