الحياة بعد الموت في الإسلام والبوذية

Abstract

This research studies life after death in Islam and Buddhism with a description of its importance in these two religions. This research tries to answer the following research questions: What is the reality of life after death and its importance in Islam and Buddhism? What is the relationship of life after death with good deeds and bad deeds in Islam and Buddhism? What is the rebirth according to the intellectual and Islamic perspective? This study aims to define the reality of life after death and its importance in Islam and Buddhism, the relationship of life after death with good deeds and bad deeds in these two religions and the description of the rebirth according to the intellectual and Islamic perspective. This research followed the descriptive and the analytical methods to achieve the expected goal. The most important findings of this study is that believe in life after death is one of the bases on which Islam and Buddhism are characterized in spite of divine source of Islam and earthistic source of Buddhism. On the one hand, the life after death in Buddhism centered on rebirth what is necessitated in terms of that the man finds the effects of his good or evil deeds, according to the doctrine of inevitable elimination what is known as Karma. There is no other way in Buddhism to account anyone’s individual works in his life except to repeat his return to this life in successive sessions. On the other hand the life after death in Islam is blessed or afflicted life of human being in heaven or hell and it starts since the man dies & is buried. And the resurrection, raise from the dead, judgment, scale, straight path, entering into heaven or hell, all this, according to the human action in the earth between obedience to God and his disobedience.