Islam As It Is
man, know theyself!
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same as in charcoal, its oxygen and hydrogen the
same as in water and its nitrogen the same as in the
atmosphere. It has never been true to say that a live
human being is just a specific collection of ordinary
atoms, which have been arranged in an
extraordinary way. Man may be made up of certain
known material particles, but we are still not in a
position to create life by just combining those
particles in a particular way. The body of a live
human being is not just a collection of lifeless
atoms. It is something quite other than this. It is a
combination of atoms plus life. After death, this
collection of atoms does not disappear from view. It
is still there for everyone to see. It is life itself which
departs for another world.
Clearly, life is not something which can be
completely annihilated. Once we understand that it
is something having eternal properties, we can
appreciate how rational, and also how natural the
‘life-after-death’ theory is. Facts are simply crying
out that life does not consist merely of what can be
seen of the human body prior to death. There must
also be a life after death. If the human intellect ac-
cepts the passing nature of this world, the possessor
