What is the Nature of Personal Identity and Its Implication on Afterlife?
Epigraph Can man not see that We created him from a drop of fluid? Yet– lo and behold!– he disputes openly, producing arguments against Us, forgetting his own creation. He […]
Cliffe Knechtle Debates Atheist Matt Dillahunty | Is There Life After Death?
The difference between atheists and Believers is gratitude. The Atheist sees a beautiful flower and thinks that’s a beautiful flower. The believer sees a beautiful flower and thanks God for their eyes, for the sunlight, for this beautiful creation, for this life, and for the chance to experience this beautiful […]
Artificial Intelligence and Afterlife?
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my […]
A Question of Time: Why AI Will Never Be Conscious
A computer with AI cannot replicate the dynamics of a conscious brain. By Marc Wittmann Ph.D. Sense of Time Source: Psychology Today Posted August 3, 2024 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley Key points […]
The Simulation Hypothesis and Its Bearing on Afterlife
Epigraph: مَّا خَلْقُكُمْ وَلَا بَعْثُكُمْ إِلَّا كَنَفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ بَصِيرٌ Creating and resurrecting all of you is like creating or resurrecting a single soul: God is all hearing and […]
John Searle’s Humility and Objectivity in Understanding Consciousness, Free Will, Soul and Afterlife
Epigraph: Before, they overindulged in luxury and persisted in great sin, always saying, ‘What? When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then be raised up? […]
Next time they say “God is evil,” say THIS
Epigraph: Exalted is He who holds all control in His hands; who has power over all things; who created death and life to test you [people] and reveal which of […]
Afterlife: Do We Need This Hope?
Epigraph: Surely, the Believers, and the Jews, and the Christians and the Sabians — whichever party from among these truly believes in Allah and the Last Day and does good deeds — […]
Surah Rome: From God’s Creativity or the First Creation to the Second Creation or Afterlife
Epigraph: God brings creation into being; in the end He will reproduce it and it is to Him you will be recalled. (Al Quran 30:11) By Zia H Shah MD, […]
Surah Qaf: The First Creation as the Foremost Proof for Afterlife
Source: TheQuran.Love Commentary by Zia H Shah MD Introduction The Surah very precisely and concisely highlights a very common theme in the Quran of a Creator God, Who has created […]
Abrahamic Faiths versus Atheism: Is Death Final?
Epigraph Allah takes away the souls of human beings at the time of their death; and of those also that are not yet dead, during their sleep. And then He retains those against which […]
Quran: Do we get to rejoin our loved ones in Paradise?
Epigraph: And those who believe and whose children follow them in faith — with them shall We join their children. And We will not diminish anything from the reward of their works. […]
Reincarnation of Eastern Religions or Afterlife of the Abrahamic Faiths?
Epigraph Can man not see that We created him from a drop of fluid? Yet– lo and behold!– he disputes openly, producing arguments against Us, forgetting his own creation. He […]
Surah Sajdah: Prostration: Defining Paradise and Hell
Introduction According to Muhammad Abdel Haleem, in the introduction to this surah: A Meccan surah which takes its title from the bowing down of true believers in worship in verse 15. The truth of the Qur’an is emphasized at the beginning of the surah, and the Prophet is urged at the […]
Afterlife: Judaism and Christianity
Epigraph But you prefer the life of this world, whereas the Hereafter is better and more lasting. This indeed is what is taught in the former Scriptures — The Scriptures of Abraham and Moses. (Al Quran 87:16-19) O people, be mindful of your duty to your Lord; indeed, the earthquake of the […]
Afterlife: Death Disrupted
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From the Mystery of Our Brain to Mind to Soul to Afterlife
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD I write this article with my fundamental belief or presumption that God of the Abrahamic faiths exists and the Quran is the […]
Afterlife: Christian Debate on Salvation, Does it Bring Christianity Closer to Islam?
James Robert White is a Baptist theologian,[1] the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, an evangelical Reformed Baptist Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona and a Christian scholar.[2][3] He is the author of several books.[4] White served as […]
Psychoanalyzing Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s agnosticism or lack of belief
Epigraph: Oh Prophet, when your Lord took out the offspring from the loins of the Children of Adam and made them bear witness about themselves, He said, ‘Am I not […]
Nobel Laureate Steven Weingberg: Science, Religion, Math and More
Presented by Zia H Shah MD When I started making this collection I thought Steven Weinberg is alive and well. I just realized in the middle of my work that […]