26 Religious Studies: Islam

We see men, animals, beasts and birds everything beside us to
die. Trees and the creepers also die at certain intervals. Insects
and worms die too after a certain period of time. Nobody and
nothing remains alive forever. Whatever has got birth in this
world has death too. Everyone will die. It is said in the Quran that:

Our paternal and maternal grand fathers and grand mothers, our
parents all has died or will die at old age. After death we bathe
them and clothe them with funeral cloths. After Janaza (or
funeral prayer) we bury them. This death brings their lives to an
end to their lives. Their life hereafter starts after this death. The
life hereafter is the eternal life, which has no end. This hereafter
life is endless.

Before death no person can know how long is the span of the
(Akhirat hereafter) and how big is the next world. Only the
Prophets and messengers came to know from Allah about the
mystery of the life hereafter through wahee (or divine
revelation). We could know something about that life of Akhirat
through the messengers of Allah.

All of the Prophets from Adam (As) to Muhammad (Sm), the
last Prophet, have said about the life of Akhirat. All of them told

Akhirat

Kullu nafsin zaiqatul mauti.

Meaning : "Every living being has to take the taste of death".