| Because of that, I thought the book was well written and the information was organized in a clean format | Al-Ashqar discusses the concept of the soul, what happens to the soul after death and the torments and struggles one can expect in when your soul is in limbo essentially a state called 'barzakh' where you are not alive and yet not resurrected to stand before God on the last day |
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| Al-Ashquar also presents various other views held by different sects and analyzes their underlying premises and evidence bases | Because of that, I thought the book was well written and the information was organized in a clean format |
I could easily use this book as a reference book due to it's organized format.
| Overall i thought it was quite an objective look at these areas | Muslims also believe in certain signs of the Last Day that will take place between the time of the Prophet Muhammad The first of 3 books dealing with death, the after life and heaven and hell |
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| Hadeeth the traditions of the Prophet pbuh and Quranic verses are used as a basis for the book and there has obviously been a lot of effort put in to research | There are helpful appendices at the back that give reference lists, Arabic translations etc |
There are also ten major signs that will happen immediately before the day of judgement including the emergence of the pseudo-christ or antichrist , the coming of Jesus peace be upon him and the hordes of Gog and Magog.
26| I personally learned a lot from it and I think the average reader would too | The topic itself was interesting and the amount of detail that was deduced from ahadeeth and the Qur'an was astonishing |
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| That is essentially the same thing |
I could easily use this book as a reference book due to it's organized format.