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
Idol worship is unforgivable only when it is maintained until the time of death; one who repents before death can be forgiven.1, 2
One may ask forgiveness for the believers in general, including believers who have died, but should not name a specific person, since one cannot know whether that person is a believer or an idol worshiper.1, 2, 3, 4
This life exists only for the test, and God created death and life, death not existing initially, in order to test us.1, 2, 3, 4
Khalifa experienced the passing of the righteous as a state of ecstasy like listening to the Quran, equivalent to the death of the righteous, and saw Abraham in his worldly looks.1, 2, 3, 4
The righteous do not really die; martyrs include not only those who die in battle but all who die believing in God and His messengers, and Paradise awaits them.1, 2, 3, 4
Fleeing from death does not help, because God causes people to die whenever He wills; everyone must die sooner or later.1, 2, 3
The time, place, and manner of each person's death are already written as part of the individual test, and nobody can change them.1, 2, 3, 4
Verse 2:243 describes an actual incident in which God let believers who fled their homes die and then revived them, to show that death is nothing to be feared.1, 2, 3
A person who dies before forty realizes God is taking him because he does not deserve hell, and a deformed child who dies performed a function and goes to heaven.1, 2, 3
Dead bodies are utterly unaware, while the real persons exist elsewhere with sharp consciousness.1, 2, 3
Death is a wonderful experience for believers, whose souls are gently invited back to their Lord, but awful for disbelievers, who cling to the body and have their souls snatched out.1, 2, 3
The interim state after death is wonderful for believers and awful for disbelievers.1
The outward manner of death makes no difference; a believer experiences no suffering whatsoever regardless of how the body dies.1, 2, 3