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Article by Brothers Shaik Abdul Wadood & Mushafiq Sultan<\/strong><\/span>
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Assalamualaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barkatahu (May Peace, Blessings & Mercy of Allah Be Upon You)<\/span>
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INTRODUCTION<\/span>
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Islamic concept of rebirth is completely different from the concept of rebirth of other religions; rebirth in Islam does not mean cycle of birth and death.<\/span>
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Quran says,<\/strong><\/span>
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How can ye reject the faith in Allah?- seeing that ye were without life, and He gave you life; then will He cause you to die, and will again bring you to life; and again to Him will ye return. [Quran 2:28]<\/span><\/strong>
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Before a certain period of birth the humans are in a lifeless state and when a person is born, he lives his life in the world as per the decree and after that he dies and he will be in that state till the day of resurrection. On the day of resurrection he will be resurrected and will be judged and will find his abode either heaven or hell according to the deeds he had done in his life.<\/span>
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The above verse speaks of the order in which humans have to pass through. It also negates the belief of continued<\/strong><\/span> cycle of birth and death. When a person is returned towards Allah on the Day of Resurrection then there will be no death to him.<\/span>
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Life of the world:<\/span>
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Woe, that Day, to the deniers.<\/strong><\/span>
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[O disbelievers], eat and enjoy yourselves a little; indeed, you are criminals. Quran (77:45-46)<\/span><\/strong>
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Allah extends provision for whom He wills and restricts [it]. And they rejoice in the worldly life, while the worldly life is not, compared to the Hereafter, except [brief] enjoyment. Quran (13:26)<\/span><\/strong>
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Similarly there are many verses which termed the life of the world as a brief enjoyment<\/strong><\/span>. Those who try to enforce the belief of rebirth in Islam too agrees that the there are many verses which talks about the single worldly life which is brief (short period). It is an attempt to remove the belief in the Day of Resurrection, those who deny the Day of resurrection is indeed the real losers.<\/span>
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Does man think that We will not assemble his bones?<\/strong><\/span>
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Yes. [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips. Quran (75:3-4)<\/span><\/strong>
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The above verses completely remove the concept of rebirth wherein souls inhabit new bodies after bodily death. Even when the body of a person is decomposed after his death he will be resurrected from the grave with the same fingertips or say fingerprints which he had in his worldly life.<\/span>
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Generally, the concept of rebirth (in other religion) is referred to the concept of Karma 1, that the deeds which a person accumulates in this life will determine the state in which he will be reborn. If he was bad, he is reborn in the womb of a woman from a lower level of society (caste) and he has to do good deeds so that he may be reborn on a higher level. If, on the other hand, he was good, he is reborn in the womb of a higher caste woman as a pious or holy man and continues to be reborn to successively higher caste women more pious and holy until he reaches perfection as a member of the Brahmin caste. When he becomes perfect, the cycle of rebirth ends with his soul dissolving and reuniting with the world soul, Brahma, in a process known as “Nirvana”.<\/span>
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According to Islam and all divinely revealed religions, when a person dies on earth he will not be reborn until the Day of Resurrection. After the destruction of the world, all of mankind will rise up from the dead to be judged by Allah, the only God worthy of worship and the Greatest of Judges. From the time a man dies until he is resurrected, he remains in a suspended state known in Arabic as the “Barzakh”. [A partition]. “It should not seem strange to think that someone who died thousands of years ago, may be waiting for thousands of years before finally being brought back to life’, because the Prophet (SAW) had said that everyone’s death is the beginning of his resurrection. Time only exists for those living on earth. Once a man dies, he leaves the time zone and a thousand years becomes a blinking of an eye. Similarly people who awaken from long comas often think that little or no time has passed.<\/span>
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1 [Karma primarily means action, work or deed. In its secondary sense it signifies the effect of an action, or the sum total of ‘effects’ of past actions. Thus, it is stated in the Chandogya Upanishad (Veda) that those whose past deeds have been good will after death be reborn from the womb of a Brahman woman. Whereas those whose deeds have been evil will be reborn from the womb of an outcaste woman (See. Dictionary of Religions, p. 180).]<\/em><\/span>
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Refutation to the article of agniveer: <\/span>
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Agniveer states:<\/span> Rebirth forms the essential foundation of almost all the religions of the world. The reasons are obvious:<\/em><\/span>
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a. All religions and philosophies of world originate from the same source of Vedas which<\/em><\/span>
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is a manual of Theory of Karma that is unhindered by birth and death.<\/em><\/span>
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My Response:<\/strong>
\n1)<\/strong>“All religions and philosophies of world originate from same source of Vedas?” Strange claim!!. The fact is all other religion and philosophies are not originated from the Vedas. Nevertheless I will refute agniveer’s this claim through agniveer.<\/span>
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Agniveer in this article says : Qoute “The implications of this is obvious \u2013 in reality Muhammad believed in concept of rebirth.However he was confused due to lack of access to Vedic wisdom.” <\/span>And in another article says “the basic premise of the Abrahamic beliefs (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) are as follows:<\/span>
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  1. God is just, kind, perfect
    \n– This life is our first and last life
    \n– God is testing us here
    \n– Based on the marks we obtain in this test, we will go to either Heaven or Hell.”<\/span>
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    http:\/\/agniveer.com\/465\/god-crazy\/<\/span><\/a>
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    In the above given article agniveer accepts that the beliefs of Abrahamic beliefs (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) is different from the Vedas (in their understanding). Now agniveer exposed themselves as liers and an inconsistent lot.<\/span>
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    2)<\/strong> If many teachings and concepts within the Vedas are similar to those of Zoroastrian religion, then why should we not conclude that Vedic Religion has been derived from Zoroastrianism, beacuse the Parsis (Zoroastrians) consider their religion older than the Vedic Religion.<\/span>
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    ZOROASTRIAN SOURCES OF VEDAS<\/strong><\/span>
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