By Sheik Muhammad Mitwaly Ash-Sha‘râwy
“In worldly life I am but a traveler who sought shade under a tree then he departed and left it behind.”
The Prophet Muhammad (May Allah bless him and grant him peace)
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent,
the Most Merciful
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Dedication_________________________________________ i
Introduction _____________________________________ ii
Chapter One____________________________________________ 1
What Was The Beginning? _____________________________ 1
A fruitless debate and sophistry _________________________ 3 Witnessing Allah in the immaterial existence ______________ 5 Forms of the creation of mankind _______________________ 6 Laws of life and death ________________________________ 8 What are the laws of sleep? ____________________________ 9 The beginning of life ________________________________ 11 Bestowal of life in the soul____________________________ 13 Existence … and the perception of existence ______________ 13
Chapter 2 _____________________________________________ 17
What Is Life? _______________________________________ 17
Inanimate beings cry, hear and talk _____________________ 20 Plants as well ______________________________________ 22 The ant speaks and the hoopoe has knowledge?____________ 24 A life… yet unknown to us ___________________________ 25 The Knowledge of Allah and that of mankind _____________ 27 All what is in the universe is alive ______________________ 30
Chapter 3 _____________________________________________ 32
What Is Death?______________________________________ 32
Life within the grave!! _______________________________ 34 The Barzakh life… out of the span of time _______________ 39 Him Alone gives life and causes death___________________ 43 Nimrod and his claim of causing death and giving life_______ 45
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Man And Immortality ________________________________ 50
The secret of life and its end __________________________ 53 The two cycles of creation: death and life ________________ 55 Names of the Supreme Self of Allah and Timelessness of His Divine Attributes ___________________________________ 57 We were…before coming to be ________________________ 58 Suicide and immortality in Hellfire _____________________ 59
Chapter five ___________________________________________ 64
The Life Of This World _______________________________ 64
True worship and how it should be?_____________________ 66 Who prepares food for us? ____________________________ 68 The Divine Law set before creation _____________________ 69 Man’s duty in life___________________________________ 71 The Divine Law and the work of the human mind __________ 73 Life from a male and a female _________________________ 75
Chapter six ____________________________________________ 78
The Life Of The Hereafter_____________________________ 78
Beyond the capacity of mind…but true indeed when it comes to the Power of Allah __________________________________ 80 The record is never lost ______________________________ 81 Proving Resurrection with tangible evidences _____________ 84 Paradise __________________________________________ 86
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After praising Allah and praying for the bestowal of blessings and peace upon our master, the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad, I beg Allah that these issuing books from my library be a step taken on the path of guidance and a light that may illumine the way towards Faith and we pray for guidance and success from Allah.
Muhammad Mitwaly Ash-Sha‘râwy
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