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Rebirth: Surah 2.28 Al Baqarah (The Heifer)

 

O How can ye reject the faith in Allah —

Seeing that ye werewithout life,1 and He gave you life;

Then will He cause you to die, 2

and will again bring you to life; 3

and again to Him will ye return.

 

surah 2.28 Al Baqarah (The Heifer)

(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.)

 

1. Allah informs humans that seeing them without life (dead) HE gave

them life. The only way they could have been dead is by being alive

before, and then succumbing to death. If there was no previous birth

then how is it possible for one to die? If one is not even born how

does one die? One has to be previously alive to be subsequently

dead. By Allah giving them life HE clearly confirms previous births

and ensuing deaths!

 

2. The same individual is brought to life again, and then caused to

die again, confirming yet another life or rebirth.

 

3. Yet again this same individual is again brought to life,

confirming yet another life or rebirth.

 

In this surah the same soul went through two deaths and rebirths and

there is no indication how many previous rebirths were there, or

when this cycle will end. In fact the very words " and again to

Him will ye return " strongly hint that the process will continue.

There is no acknowledgment of Judgement Day, an event that occurs

during Qiyamah!

 

Every death brings humans back to Allah and those marked for death

(as they have sinned beyond redemption) are held back, but the rest

sent back to continue the purification process. This process of

life, death, life, death, life, death continues relentlessly until

the individual — through sustained spiritual cleansing and

stepping up into higher consciousness — is eligible for

everlasting life in Paradise.

 

If this is not achieved then the process goes on until the Day of

Qiyamah when rampant anti-god activities have become intolerable,

and Allah's hope that humans will mend their ways fades. Then His

Truth is announced for those who want to enter His Kingdom and a

line drawn between the True Believers (Al-Mu'minun) and the rest

of humanity. This becomes His Grace of Qiyamah. When there are no

humans desiring salvation left on Earth, the End comes to those

remaining in the form of the Second Coming of Christ.

 

 

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The wise priest knows he now must reap the fruits of deeds of former

births. For be they many or but few, deeds done in covetousness or

hate, or through infatuation's power, must bear their needful

consequence. Hence not to covetousness, nor hate, nor to

infatuation's power the wise priest yields, but knowledge seeks and

leaves the way to punishment.

 

Anguttara Nikaya iii. 33 (Garland Sutra 10, p. 188.)

 

 

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Put not off from day to day and from cycle to cycle, in the belief

that ye will succeed in obtaining the mysteries,

When ye return to the world in another cycle.

 

Shri Jesus Christ (Pistis Sophia)

 

 

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" By the turn of the century, it is likely that among the most

preposterous will be the idea that we only have one life to live. "

 

Sybil Leek

 

 

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" My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated . . . and that

hereafter we shall suffer or benefit in accordance with what we have

done in this world. For example, the employer who sweats his

workpeople will be condemned to be sweated himself . . . "

 

David Llyod George (British Prime Minister 1916-1922)

 

 

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" A hundred years ago Bedlam would have been the place for anyone

who voiced the fact that in the future we would be able to

communicate with countries across the sea by seeing and hearing —

or with men on the moon. In a century to come perhaps science and

regressive hypnotism will have finally proven the fact of our many

lives. "

 

Clarice Toyne