Hereafter

Shi'a Beliefs

Theology
Tawhid (Monotheism)	Tawhid of Essence • Tawhid in Attributes • Tawhid in Actions • Tawhid in Worship
Other Beliefs	Tawassul • Shafa'a • Tabarruk
Divine Justice
Bada' • Amr Bayn al-Amrayn
Prophethood
Infallibility • 'Ilm al-ghayb • Mu'jiza • Integrity of the Holy Qur'an
Imamate
Infallibility • Wilaya • 'Ilm al-ghayb • Occultation of Imam al-Mahdi (a) (Minor Occultation,Major Occultation) • Reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a) • Raj'a
Resurrection
End Time • Hereafter • Barzakh • Embodiment of Actions •Bodily Resurrection • Al-Sirat • Tatayur al-Kutub • Mizan • Hashr
Other Outstanding Beliefs
Ahl al-Bayt (a) • The Fourteen Infallibles • Taqiyya • Marja'iyya • Tawalli • Tabarri

From Death to Resurection

Simultaneous Events with Death Ihtidar Soul-taking Hardships of the Death

Obligations towards the Dead Ghusl of the Dead Hanut Shroud Funeral Procession Funeral Prayer Burial Talqin Prayer of Burial Night Ghusl for Touching the Dead

After Burying in the Grave Burial Night Questions in the Grave Punishment in the Grave Pressure of the Grave Barzakh Life in Barzakh Body in Barzakh

Resurrection Resurrection Blowing the Trumpet Judgment day/Day of Separation/Hereafter/Day of Encounter Stations of Qiyama Mizan Embodiment of Actions Shafa'a (Intercession) Al-Sirat Heaven or Hell Afterlife Bodies Eternity Others

Related Concepts 'Izra'il Record of Actions Raqib and 'Atid People of the Right Hand People of the Left Hand Visiting Graves Tawassul to the Dead Idda of Death Al-A'wad

Hereafter or Ākhira (Arabic: الآخرة) in the Qur'an, Islamic culture and Islamic tradition, is equivalent to the term afterlife and is used as an expression to refer to the "other world"; the world after this mundane world in which all the people will see their rewards and punishments. In all revealed religions, some discourse on afterlife can be found.

Meaning

The term akhira is used, as a single word (not combined with other words), 104 times in the Qur'an. Sometimes other phrases such as Dar al-Akhira (دارُالآخِرَة, the other residence) and Yawm al-Akhir (يَوم الآخِر, the other day) is used insted.

Afterlife in Hadiths

In hadiths by the Prophet (s) and Shi'a Imams (a), two terms of "الیوم الآخر" and "آخرة" are used in contrast to the term "الدنیا" (this world) and refer to the afterlife. Imam Ali (a) has stated:

“ "Whatever causes a decrease in mundane advantages and an increase in advantages of the afterlife is better than what decreases advantages of the afterlife and increases mundane advantages". ”

One of the Pillars of Islam

In the Qur'an, the faith in the afterlife along with the faith in God and in Prophet (s) is one of the three pillars of Islam (usul al-din). In thirty verses, two concepts of faith in God and faith in afterlife are mentioned together. All the Islamic denominations consider the faith in the afterlife as one of the necessary Islamic beliefs. They count the deniers of the afterlife as Kafir.

Indeed, the faith in afterlife, in the Qur'an and hadiths, plays a substantial role in the Islamic thoughts pertaining to the life after death. Barzakh, qiyama, hashr, sirat, hisab, shafa'a, paradise and hell, all are some realities of the afterlife in Qu'ran and people have been called to believe in them.

Some Attributes of Afterlife in Qur'an

General information about the characteristics of akhira can be found in the Qur'an in the following verses:

• There is none in the heavens and the earth but he comes to the All-beneficent as a servant. Certainly He has counted them [all] and numbered them precisely, and each of them will come to Him alone on the Day of Resurrection.(Qur'an 19:93-95)
• And that nothing belongs to man except what he strives for. (Qur'an 53:39)
• You were certainly oblivious of this. We have removed your veil from you, and so your sight is acute today.(Qur'an 50:22)
• On that day Allah will pay them in full their due recompense, and they shall know that Allah is the Manifest Reality.(Qur'an 24:25)
• (they will be served around with golden dishes and goblets, and therein will be whatever the souls desire and eyes delight in) 'and you will remain in it [forever].(Qur'an 43:71)
• Except him who turns back and disbelieves. Him Allah will punish with the greatest punishment.(Qur'an 88:23-24)
• Allah has promised the faithful, men and women, gardens with streams running in them, to remain in them [forever], and good dwellings in the Gardens of Eden. Yet Allah's pleasure is greater [than all these]; that is the great success.(Qur'an 9:72)
• No indeed! They will be alienated from their Lord on that day. Then they will indeed enter hell.(Qur'an 83:15-16)
• Observe how We have given some of them an advantage over some others; yet the Hereafter is surely greater in respect of ranks and greater in respect of relative merit.(Qur'an 17:21)

See also

• Resurrection
• Usul al-din
• Day of Separation