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bloaaple · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject: the mystery of death , theology ,

"Death be not proud though
Some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful for, thou
art not so,"
John Donne, the founder of metaphysical poet from whom icon figure and vesatile writer T.S.Eliot
inspired much , was gigantic name in english literature of the 16th century. To,John Donne, death means death of 'death'.every
object of this universal wil have to decay. Time not only heal the wounds but also destroy gigantic bulidings.
Human beings are mortal and after spending some time in this materailistic world
they will fade away from face of world for ever. Every religion explain the word death in its own way. Hindus firmly believe in the
theory of incarnation of soul.
Islam , Christainity and judaism believe in the life after death.
According to thier doctrine soul from man traveled to God. According ot some Pagan
soul select its own body and for good poem the harmony among form and thought is inevitable so it is necessary for a soul to select right body.
Three months before CNN invited many scholars from different schools of thoughts and raised ths question in King larry programme that
what is death ?
No school of thought answered this question with satisfication.
The representative of atheist school , a young lady, firmly rejected this notion that religion and God exist in World
She further added that all religions and religions figures are myths and all religions are man made.She further told that there is no Jesus and Moses and Muhammad S.W
and there is no after death . On other hand jews, Christain, and Muslim Scholars declared that death is fact but life exist after death. According to those Scholar death is only the closing of one
chapter of life. If some bud, a child dies befor blooming,young age it does not mean that that bud is faded forever.
I mean to say that death is the closing of one chapter.Quran says that death is certain and no body can escape for the clutches of death.
*if some one know more and more about this topic, post it to this forum for the knowledge of lay man..........u may difer with my opinion but freedom of speech is the privalage of this forum.
Thanks
AJAB KHAN SHEIKH
Peshawar, Pakistan

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in my begining is my end, u jump i jump,,,,,,,,,,,,,, behonest with out the thought of heaven or hell

Sitaram · Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 1079

I just now finished watching a documentary on educational televison entitled "Mystic Iran: The Unseen World",..... which showed many scenes from among the Kurdish male and female Sufis, who chant and dance until they reach a mystical state of altered consciousness.

My personal sympathies lie closest with the mystic Sufis, and what I have read from Idres Shaw. I can feel closer to the spirit of Sufis and Rumi than I can to the Sunni and Shia Muslims.

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