Epigraph
But you prefer the life of this world, whereas the Hereafter is better and more lasting. This indeed is what is taught in the former Scriptures — The Scriptures of Abraham and Moses. (Al Quran 87:16-19)
O people, be mindful of your duty to your Lord; indeed, the earthquake of the Judgment is a tremendous thing. On that day, every woman giving suck shall forget her suckling and every pregnant woman shall cast her burden; and everyone will appear intoxicated, while they will not be intoxicated, but the chastisement of Allah will be severe indeed. There are some among men who dispute concerning Allah without knowledge and follow every rebellious misguided one, concerning whom it is decreed that whosoever makes friends with him, he will lead him astray and will guide him to the torment of the Fire. (Al Quran 22:1-4)
Commentary by Zia H Shah MD
As a devout and practicing Muslim I obviously do not believe in Easter or Jesus’ resurrection. But, I have found David Bentley Hart as one of the better Christian philosophers. He very nicely summarizes the Jewish and other traditions very well about Afterlife. This I find as a very befitting commentary of the above quoted verses of the Quran from Surah Aala that is often recited in Friday prayers:
But you prefer the life of this world, whereas the Hereafter is better and more lasting. This indeed is what is taught in the former Scriptures — The Scriptures of Abraham and Moses. (Al Quran 87:16-19)
Unlike many believing Christians and Christian philosophers, Hart believes in universal salvation:
If God is the good creator of all, he must also be the savior of all, without fail, who brings to himself all he has made, including all rational wills, and only thus returns to himself in all that goes forth from him. If he is not the savior of all, the Kingdom is only a dream, and creation something considerably worse than a nightmare. But, again, it is not so. According to scripture, God saw that what he created was good. If so, then all creatures must, in the ages, see it as well. ― David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
To say that, on the one hand, God is infinitely good, perfectly just, and inexhaustibly loving, and that, on the other, he has created a world under such terms as oblige him either to impose, or to permit the imposition of, eternal misery on finite rational beings, is simply to embrace a complete contradiction. ― David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
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