By Victor M Fontane
Some religions teach you that after you have died, your family and Muslim community will conduct your Ghusl (full-body ritual purification) and then proceed to your Janazah (funeral prayer) which is a part of the Islamic funeral rituals. After this and many prayers, your body is then buried six-foot underground, alone and by itself.
After some time in your grave, you are then visited by two angels, known as Munkar and Nakir. They are assigned to test the faith of those dead within their graves. When they arrive, they sit you up in your grave and ask you the following: “Who is your Lord? Who is your Prophet? And what is your faith?”.
When this is completed, you have been determined to either rest in peace until the day of judgement or you are severely punished by the angels until Allah (SWT) determines otherwise, until the day of resurrection. You will have now entered the stage of Barzakh, the veil or barrier which stands between two things that are not able to meet. You can easily interpret this stage as a waiting period until the day of judgement, a separation between the living and the hereafter.
“That I might do righteousness in that which I left behind. No! It is only a word he is saying, and behind them is a barrier until the Day they are resurrected.” – (23:100) the Holy Quran.
Others teach you that when you die, if you was good to others in life and comply with Ten Commandments and the rules, you will go to a place called Heaven for eternity otherwise you will go to another place called Hell for eternity as well.
Just the teachings of the Far East, Hindu Vedas and Buddhism tells you that we are already pure consciousness in a process of evolution to achieve nirvana and our highest potential. For that to happen we have to work endlessly learning the teachings and doing spiritual practices until we completely understand the ultimate reality of all experiences and phenomena. No punishment or reward just spiritual evolution, nobody help you or do the job for you.
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