ARGUMENT FOR THE LIFE HEREAFTER

Argument for the Life Hereafter ~ 187 ~ Today we apprehend it as a probability; tomorrow we shall witness it as a fact. Once qiyamah (the Final Day) has been accepted as a probability, the second question that must be asked is: “Is there any life after death?” The answer to this tends, nowadays, to be in the negative because we are so used to thinking of life in terms of all the material elements of which it is apparently composed. We think of life developing when all the aforesaid elements are arranged in a particular order, and, as a corollary to that, we think of death as shattering that order and, in consequence, obviating all possibility of life after death. T.R. Miles regards the concept of resurrection as a symbolic truth and refuses to accept it literally: It seems to me that there is a good case for regarding ‘People have experiences after death’ as a literal, factually significant assertion capable in principle of being verified or falsified by experience. The only difficulty, in that case, is that, until we die, there is no means of discovering the true answer. Speculation, of course, is possible. It might be