Interview Conducted by Rafaela von Bredow and Johann Grolle picture-alliance / AKG Oil painting from Hieronymus Bosch, ca. 1500. The fear of death is our constant companion. Psychologist Sheldon Solomon has researched how that anxiety affects our lives — and found that being reminded of death can bring out our worst. […]
Once upon a time, a long long time ago, there lived a Noble Man in Basrah (now in Iraq). He lived in his home together with one servant to look after all his needs. The servant used to go daily to the market to look for the freshest fruits and […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY CARYLE MURPHY; 7 COMMENTS It’s natural for people to want things to turn out well in the end, both in life and, apparently, afterwards. Roughly seven-in-ten (72%) […]
MARIAM ANWER Published — Friday 29 January 2016 Death is always a bitter realization, a huge reminder and a recurring scary thought: ‘How long before I am the one lying lifeless being washed, shrouded and buried by others?’ Allah says in His Glorious Book: “Every soul will taste death, and […]
This is a story from Basra, Iraq. Author unknown: Once upon a time there lived in Basra a ‘Master’. His ‘servant’ used to go daily to the Market to purchase fresh vegetables. The ‘Master’ was kind and did not make a fuss when the ‘servant’ took his […]
HARUN YAHYA Published — Friday 31 July 2015 ARABNEWS.COM People, generally speaking, do not want to die. Even at an advanced age, they remain unconcerned about imminence of death. They live as though death is a far distant reality. Almighty God draws attention to this human instinct, saying: “And you […]
A.S. HALAWANI Published — Friday 17 April 2015 When you pass away, do not worry about your dead body as fellow Muslims will take good care of it; they will take off your clothes, wash your body up, and wrap it in a clean white shroud; they will take […]
ADAM WITHNALL Author Biography Tuesday 07 October 2014 There is scientific evidence to suggest that life can continue after death, according to the largest ever medical study carried out on the subject. One man who was clinically dead – then brought back to life – accurately described what had been […]
90. Wheresoever you may be, death will overtake you [4:79] Wheresoever you may be, death will overtake you, even if you be in strongly built towers. And if some good befalls them, they say, ‘This is from Allah;’ and if evil befalls them, they say, ‘This is from thee.’ Say, […]
by http://jamiat.org.za Source: http://jamiat.org.za By: http://jamiat.org.za Source: http://jamiat.org.za/ Firstly: a good end… A good end means when a person was guided before his death to keep away from that which angers the Lord and to repent from sin, and to focus on doing acts of worship and good deeds, and […]
by John Hall THE INDEPENDENT It’s a question pondered by philosophers, scientists and the devout since the dawn of time: is there an afterlife? While the religious would argue that life on earth is a mere warm up for an eternity spent in heaven or hell, and many scientists would […]
Source: CNN Money By Charles Riley Bangladesh must make its factories safer or risk the loss of privileged access to the country’s biggest market after a building collapse killed hundreds of garment industry workers. The warning from the European Union is the latest sign that governments and retailers are […]
Source: NY Times. By JIM YARDLEY SAVAR, Bangladesh — The mother stood at the edge of the wreckage, pressing her lips to photos of her two children — Asma, who had worked in a garment factory on the fourth floor, and Sultan, who worked on the fifth. For five days […]
by Jaweed KaleemBecome HUFFINGTON POST Most Americans know of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Holocaust by hiring Jews to work in his […]
Source: RT news Adrian Salbuchi for RT The human price of a recent fire at a Bangladeshi factory was over a hundred lives, reminding the world that for “western free-market democracy,” the words “human price” have another, very direct meaning. On November 24, a horrific flash fire broke out in […]
by Ariane Gigon in Zurich, swissinfo.ch For many deceased, the cemetery is no longer their “final resting place”. Scattering ashes out in the open, burying the urn in a forest […]
Courtesy: NY Times: …….Now, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have identified 16 assessment scales with “moderate” to “very good” abilities to determine the likelihood of death within six months to five years in various older populations. Moreover, the authors have fashioned interactive tools of the most accurate […]