Chapter Five

LIFE HEREAFTER AND THE DOOMS DAY

There is no clear answer about dooms day and life hereafter in Greek and western philosophy. They actually this question was not worth discussion to them because they first want to know what is soul and whether it is present or not, where it goes after death.
There are commonly two schools of thoughts, first one are convinced of trans-migration like Plato. According to them the soul came into this world by chance and was trapped into body, now it is trying to go back. This theory actually diminishes the concept of reward or punishment. The other group is holder of atomists theory according to which the soul is actually like an atom, when all these atoms broke the souls ends into ashes and enter into another body for survival. This is actually scientific explanation of soul, which can not be accepted by religious scholars. The Jews and Christians also presented the concept of dooms day, but this is vague and creat confusion rather than satisfaction.
The other most commonly accepted source of knowledge the Holy Qur'an has also delt with the answer and has presented more satisfying and sufficient answers to all question raised by man. In its subject of man it deals with cause of being, the nature of man and universe and also the ways of life. Its arguments are based on human nature and universal laws and strong enough. For example the main objective or cause of human creation is Allah’s worship. Now when we observe this world we see many people who do not worship Allah, but they are living good lives. So there must be a day when Allah reward the people who worshiped Him and punish those who denied his presence.
On other hand it says that this universe is not made aimlessly so if there is a aim then it generate the idea that man is not free in all aspects but is responsible for his deeds and the day accountability will be dooms day. Similarly it is demand of Allah’s greatness that the there should be a day when all those who could not find reward of there deeds in world are favored. The Qur'an also give argument from human nature by making his attention toward his own self. There is something called conscience in man who stops him from wrong doings that is actually a small judiciary in his inner self, which give evidence of dooms day. Similarly as said earlier that man is the centre of this universe and enjoy the status of “ ashraf-ul-makhloqat” so he is to be accountable to someone somewhere and that is actually life hereafter.
All above discussion indicate that actually man in itself needs and desire to have dooms day and concept of life hereafter so that he can find actual reward or punishment of his deeds.