Salam ZKAB90,
Apologies for the late reply; I have been preoccupied with school.
To recap from were we left off:
You made the following statement:
The punishment that will occurr in the barzakh will affect only the soul, not the body. So, probably the punishment will be only a nightmare, and this is in line whith the soul affected by punishment.
And you cited the following Qurnic verse to support that statement:
Do not think of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive...[Quran 3:169]
To which I asked:
If, as you've said, it is only the soul and not the body which will receive punishment in barzakh, then do you also believe that Allah is referring to the souls and not the bodies of the martyrs when He says of them that they are not dead, but rather alive?:
To which you replied by saying:
The soul is alive [read: conscious] that after the Judgment Day they will be amongst the winners, that is, they will enter into Paradise.
And with respect, that reply failed to answer the question of:
If the soul is solely alive and not reaping any rewards till after judgement day, then can the same not be said of the souls of the evil doers? i.e they, while in their graves, will be alive but only after judgement has been passed on them will they receive their due punishment?Furthermore, albeit unrelated to the main topic at hand, you made the following statements regarding
predetermination:
...your sentence is been choose before you're born.
To which I responded by asking:
Are you arguing that our sentence has already been decided for us before birth? So if I (God forbid) were sent to hell it is not because of any (evil) acts which I may have done on my own accord but rather because Allah has already willed it? Does that not seem unjust and unfair?
To which you then responded by saying:
The words "just" and "unfair" have surely different meaning to God.
With respect, you can cut it however you will.....it still seems unjust to me that Allah would have already predetermined out sentence for us (assuming by sentence you me punishments).
1)Of what purpose does life serve if Allah has already predetermined our course? Of what purpose do the many tests Allah places on us serve if He has already decided the outcome for us?
2) If Allah has already predetermined our lives for us, then can I really be held accountable for my evil ways?
3)Why would Allah be furious towards some of histories greatest tyrants (such as Pharaoh, Hitler, etc) and condemn them to the hell fire if they were simply carrying out the will of Allah?