Happiness in Life and After Death: An Islamic Sufi View
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Science and Metaphysics
- Views of Religions and Cultures
- Islamic View of Death
- CHAPTER 1: LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
- Light
- Spheres of Consciousness
- The Purpose of Life
- Matter and Energy
- Origin of Creation
- CHAPTER 2: REFLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
- Love of Divine Qualities
- Potential Human Consciousness
- Levels of Consciousness
- Death and Higher Consciousness
- CHAPTER 3: BIRTH AND DEATH
- The One and The Many
- Cycles of Birth and Death
- Unifying Dualities
- Paradoxes of Life
- Remembering Death
- Death as Freedom
- CHAPTER 4: HUMAN NATURE
- Body, Mind and Soul
- Similarity of Human Souls
- The Changing and The Constant
- Soul Guidance
- Islamic Cosmology of The Self
- CHAPTER 5: THE ETERNAL QUEST
- Self-Soul Relationships
- Aspiring to The Highest
- The Constant Reference Point
- Resolving the Paradox
- The Ever-Present
- The Next Life
- Sacredness of Life
- CHAPTER 6: TWILIGHT AND DEATH
- Overcoming Fear of Death
- Courtesies Towards the Dying
- What Happens After Death?
- Near-Death Experiences
- Preparing For Death
- Ease and Difficulty
- CHAPTER 7: BURIALS AND GRAVES
- Respect for Body and Soul
- Courtesies and Ceremonies
- Burial Ritual
- Praying for the Departed
- CHAPTER 8: THE NEW REALM
- The Hereafter
- Experiences in the Grave
- The Garden and The Fire
- Angels and Jinn
- CHAPTER 9: COSMIC CATACLYSM AND RESURRECTION
- Cataclysm
- The First Trumpet Blow
- This World as a Metaphor for The Next
- Questioning and Judgment
- Resurrection
- CHAPTER 10: RETURN TO ORIGIN
- Identity Meltdown
- Universal Death, Resurrection and Return to Oneness
- Personal Accountability
- Final Gatheredness and Convergence to Unity
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