Question for Ustadh Hassan: Do you believe in an afterlife and accountability?

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- Haris Bukhari
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Question for Ustadh Hassan: Do you believe in an afterlife and accountability?
OP - June 27, 2016, 12:05 AM

Ustadh Hassan, I asked this on your FB but I think you must have missed it. Also it is a bit weird when a stranger ask such direct questions from out of the blue.

I hope your response will benefit others like me who are still searching for the truth.

As a deist and not to believe in the afterlife strikes me as akin to the polytheists at the time of the Prophet.
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Reply #1 - July 17, 2016, 06:53 PM

My belief in the afterlife is more aligned with Christian Spiritualists. The concept of heaven and hell are not places where people go to get rewarded or punished. Spirits who have harmed others and not worked through that will continue to work through after death. So hell is really a state of anguish and regret a person has. I do not believe in a fire and burning hell.

Maybe you think this is crazy. I have had a few spiritual experiences in my life. Three times my grandfather's spirit came to warn me and help me when my life was in danger. I have had a few other extraordinary experiences with spirits.

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Reply #2 - July 17, 2016, 07:04 PM

Quote from: Haris Bukhari on June 27, 2016, 12:05 AM
Ustadh Hassan,.............

As a deist and not to believe in the afterlife strikes me as akin to the polytheists at the time of the Prophet.

Hmm who is this Ustadh Hassan,.?? prophet reincarnated?? or the guy who gets kicked from all sides

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Reply #3 - July 17, 2016, 07:07 PM

Quote from: Bee on July 17, 2016, 06:53 PM
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Maybe you think this is crazy. I have had a few spiritual experiences in my life. Three times my grandfather's spirit came to warn me and help me when my life was in danger. I have had a few other extraordinary experiences with spirits.

hello Bee., you are making me nervous .......... I wish you could air such life changing stories in some special folder..........

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Reply #4 - July 17, 2016, 07:34 PM

Haris I honestly don't know.

I certainly don't believe in the ridiculous Abrahamic models of heaven and hell which are just man made myths.

I would love to think there is some sort of existence after we die and some sort of justice. But what that may be I have no idea and I suspect is just my wishful thinking.
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Reply #5 - July 17, 2016, 07:48 PM

Quote from: Haris Bukhari on June 27, 2016, 12:05 AM
Ustadh Hassan, I asked this on your FB but I think you must have missed it. Also it is a bit weird when a stranger ask such direct questions from out of the blue.

I hope your response will benefit others like me who are still searching for the truth.

As a deist and not to believe in the afterlife strikes me as akin to the polytheists at the time of the Prophet.

There is a breakdown here as deism is not polytheism. Polytheism is to believe in multiple Gods; Zeus, Ares, Athena, etc. Deism is still a single creator/god concept. It just dismisses revelation focusing on arguments from nature and logic. Most arguments for God outside of religious texts are deistic. First cause and Kalam are arguments from a deistic point not a revelation.
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