The souls of the dead prophets and believers are alive in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve lived, though they cannot come back to our world.1, 2
God created death and brought humans and jinns into this world so they start over without bias and freely choose between God's absolute authority and Satan's polytheism, each receiving messages from both.1, 2
For the disbelievers death is a horrible event, as the angels beat them on their faces and rear ends, order them to evict their souls, and snatch their souls away.1, 2
The Quran speaks of two deaths: the first came when we failed to make a stand with God's absolute authority and lasted until our birth, and the second ends our life in this world.1
The righteous die only once, the death we already experienced as a consequence of the great feud, and God spares them the retribution of Hell.1, 2
The righteous do not really die; when their earthly lives reach the predetermined end, the angel of death invites them to leave their bodies and move on to Heaven.1, 2, 3
Those killed in the cause of God are not dead but alive at their Lord, being provided for, though people do not perceive it.1, 2, 3
Verses 36:26-27 are the best evidence that the righteous go to Paradise while their friends and relatives still live on earth, like someone going to Hawaii and waiting there.1, 2
God mercifully gave our generation the case of William Schroeder, whose soul departed on the 19th day after his artificial heart operation while his body lived on for 19 months.1, 2
Jesus was put to death and his soul raised before his arrest, so his persecutors arrested, tortured, and crucified an empty body.1, 2, 3, 4
God alone ends each life and knows who deserves Heaven or Hell, so a wicked person whom God knows does not deserve Heaven will not die before 40.1
It is noteworthy that Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were both assassinated a couple of months before their 40th birthdays.1
Ted Bundy was executed at 42, and had he been executed before 40 he would have gone straight to Heaven, which he did not deserve.1
In this life, without memory of the heavenly feud, humans and jinns receive messages from God and from Satan and freely choose, and that choice decides redemption or permanent exile with Satan.1, 2
Every human goes through two deaths and two lives: dead before birth, alive, then dead again, then resurrected to the real, eternal life.1, 2, 3
God takes some people just before forty because He knows that if they lived longer they would be swept away by their circumstances.1, 2, 3
God took Martin Luther King before forty to protect him from being swept by his environment into Christianity, since in his heart and his speech he always talked about God.1, 2, 3, 4
Verses 88 and 89 of Sura 56 refer to a rare and blessed group of people, while verse 90 refers to those who died before forty, who go to the lower heaven.1, 2, 3
Those who forget God are made to forget their own souls, meaning they fail to make deposits for their souls, and this life is the only time deposits can be made.1, 2, 3
Believers do not long for death, because the longer they worship God the more their souls develop, and one must be very arrogant to long for death.1, 2, 3
God's plan is that the rebels are put to death, brought into this world for the test while angels serve and guard them, and afterwards each is redeemed to God's kingdom or sent to hell.1, 2, 3, 4
Out of body experiences, where patients watch doctors operating on their bodies without pain, show that God is teaching us the real nature of the soul and what Jesus felt at the crucifixion, since he was gone.1, 2, 3, 4
The angels serve disbelievers all their lives hoping they will return to God's kingdom, and when a person dies a disbeliever they beat him for having been unappreciative of God.1, 2, 3, 4
When the righteous go to heaven they leave their bodies, just as Adam and Eve were before breaking God's law, because the body is not really anything.1, 2, 3
Once a person reaches the age of 41 he had better be worshiping God alone; God may take some before forty, placing them justly, such as in the lower heaven.1, 2, 3, 4
Dr. Khalifa tried an out of body experience and does not recommend it, but he learned from it that walls do not stop the soul.1, 2, 3
The Quran teaches that God created death and life to test human beings and distinguish the righteous among them.1, 2
No one controls his own life or can stop death when it comes, as the soul reaching the throat shows.1, 2, 3
Disasters like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah are commanded by God, and only God controls the time of death and identifies who will die.1, 2
Everyone on earth will perish, while the presence of God continues.1
Believing in the evil eye or fearing harm from anyone is idol worship, because nothing happens except by God's will and death comes only by God's personal decree.1, 2, 3, 4
Repentance is accepted only from those who sin out of ignorance and repent immediately, not from those who persist in sin until death or die as disbelievers.1, 2, 3
God created death and life to distinguish the true believers among humans from those who are not.1, 2