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Islam, as with other Abrahamic religions, views suicide as one of the greatest sins and utterly detrimental to one's spiritual journey. The Islamic view is that life and death are given by Allah. The absolute prohibition is stated in the Quran, Surah 4:29 which states: "do not kill yourselves. Surely, Allah is Most Merciful to you."
In contrast to the mainstream Islamic views, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community rejects the interpretation of Jesus being lifted alive to Heaven, [3] [6] [7] [9]: 430–431 and instead contend that Jesus survived the crucifixion, [6] [7] [9]: 430–431 [11]: 129–132 [46] and go further to describe Jesus as a mortal man who was taken off the cross ...
Therefore, some Muslim traditions argue about possibilities to contact the dead by sleeping on graveyards. [6] Despite the non-existent or at max, the brief mentionings in the Quran, Islamic tradition discusses elaborately, almost in graphic detail, as to what exactly happens before, during and after death, based on certain hadithic narrations.
In particular, contemporary Islamic scholars view the Ahmadiyya belief as a contradiction with the verse in the Quran, Chapter 33 (The Combined Forces), verse 40: "Muhammad is not the father of [any] one of your men, but [he is] the Messenger of Allah and Seal of the prophets.
The discussions on the epistemology of soul have given rise to many fields of study from ethics, psychology, education, and philosophy to commentary of Qur'anic verses and relevant hadiths among which philosophical speculations have a special place. One critical question or a common subject raised by most philosophers is whether the soul is ...
Jinn, invisible being, like humans, created with fitra. Their destiny depends on God's Judgement on the Day of Resurrection. (Genie) Jundullah, army of angels who helped Muhammad in the battlefield. [22] (Angels)
In Islam, the belief that spiritual entities—particularly, jinn—can possess a person, (or a thing or location), [1] is widespread; as is the belief that the jinn and devils can be expelled from the possessed person (or thing/location) through exorcism.
Ibn Arabi considers this man to be a Barzakh, meaning a Perfect Human Being. Chittick explains that the Perfect Human acts as the Barzakh or "isthmus" between God and the world. [28] According to Ibn Arabi, [citation needed] Khalid was a prophet whose message never emerged. Before he died, he told his sons to open his tomb forty days after his ...