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As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)

One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:

Dear Brother,

GOD is concerned about the soul and not the body.  Without a breath human body is dust. If a person dies in the water or any other place and his body is not found, how will you burry him immediately.  You are on the wrong track.  Believe in JESUS and ask him to reveal you the truth of life. 

Don't pay attention on dressing, dead body, cleaning outside body.  None will take you to GOD.  But only by accepting JESUS as your saviour and with the good deeds (challenging with life to live without sin) you will reach GOD. Please refer to the below verse what it tells you.

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Answer:

Believe in jesus Christian

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."

John 5:24

“I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.

Your Statement: ….Believe in JESUS and ask him to reveal you the truth of life. 

Respected sister, you show me a person who calls himself a ‘muslim’ who declares that he DOES NOT believe in the Christ Jesus, son of Mary, and I will show you a disbeliever!

One of the tenets of the Islamic faith is the belief in Jesus, son of Mary, as the Christ and the Messiah. Any muslim who declares disbelief in Jesus Christ automatically leaves the fold of Islam!

• Every muslim bears witness that Jesus Christ was born of a miraculous birth.
• Every muslim bears witness that Jesus Christ miraculously spoke the Truth as an infant in the cradle.
• Every muslim bears witness that Jesus Christ was sent by the Lord Creator to reveal the ‘truth of life’.
• Every muslim bears witness that Jesus Christ was absolutely free of sin and error.
• Every muslim bear witness that each and every word spoken and each and every deed done was nothing but the absolute Truth.
• Every muslim bears witness that The Lord Creator revealed His Revelation of the Gospel unto Christ Jesus, son of Mary, as a book of guidance to the Truth.
• Every muslim bears witness that as promised, Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, will return to Earth for a second time to establish the Kingdom of God on this earth.

Respected sister, if any muslim does not believe in any of the above listed points, our Lord Creator is our witness, he ceases to be a ‘muslim’ and becomes a disbeliever in the Sight of the Lord Creator.

Your Statement: ….You are on the wrong track.

Our Lord Creator is our witness, those who do not believe in every word and every deed of Christ Jesus as the absolute Truth are indeed on the ‘wrong track’!

Christ Jesus, son of Mary, is held in such high esteem in the Islamic faith, and such is his rank and status in the sight of every muslim that you have to only read a few passages of the Final Revelation of our lord creator in the Glorious Quran to appreciate the truth.

The Lord Declares in the Holy Quran Chapter 19 Surah Maryam Verses 16-34:

16 Relate in the Book (the story of) Mary when she withdrew from her family to a place in the East.

17 She placed a screen (to screen herself) from them: then We sent to her Our angel and he appeared before her as a man in all respects.

18 She (Mary) said: "I seek refuge from thee unto The Most Gracious: (come not near) if thou dost fear God."

19 He said: "Nay I am only a messenger from thy Lord (to announce) to thee the gift of a holy son."

20 She said: "How shall I have a son seeing that no man has touched me and I am not unchaste?"

21 He said: "So (it will be): thy Lord saith `That is easy for Me: and (We wish) to appoint him as a Sign unto men and a Mercy from Us': it is a matter (so) decreed."

22 So she conceived him (Jesus) and she retired with him to a remote place.

23 And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree: she cried (in her anguish): "Ah! Would that I had died before this! Would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight!"

24 But (a voice) cried to her from beneath the (palm-tree): "Grieve not! For thy Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee;

25 "And shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree: it will let fall fresh ripe dates upon thee.”

26 "So eat and drink and cool (thine) eye. And if thou dost see any man say `I have vowed a fast to The Most Gracious and this day will I enter into no talk with any human being.'"

27 At length she brought the (babe Jesus) to her people carrying him (in her arms). They said: "O Mary! Truly an amazing thing hast thou brought!”

28 "O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil nor thy mother a woman unchaste!"

29 But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?"

30 He said: "I am indeed a servant of God: He hath given me Revelation and made me a Prophet;

31 And He hath made me Blessed wheresoever I be and hath enjoined on me Prayer and Charity as long as I live;

32 (He) hath made me kind to my mother and not overbearing or miserable;

33 So Peace is on me the day I was born the day that I die and the Day that I shall be raised up to life (again)"!

34 Such (was) Jesus, the son of Mary: (it is) a Statement of Truth about which they (vainly) dispute.

Your Statement: …GOD is concerned about the soul and not the body…….. Don't pay attention on dressing, dead body, cleaning outside body.  None will take you to GOD.

In their efforts to give the deceased a honorable burial, one party merely washes the deceased body, wraps the body in a simple white shroud, offers a short funeral prayer seeking forgiveness for the soul of their deceased brethren from the Lord, and places the body in an unmarked grave.

Another party dresses their deceased in the their ‘Sunday-best’ suits, puts their over-dressed deceased on display in a custom-made coffin, close family/friends are invited to climb the pulpit and give a flowery speech praising the deeds of the deceased, and with great fanfare the coffin is placed in a grave with an ornate epitaph!

We leave it to your fair judgment which party do you think is obsessed and paying ‘attention on dressing, the dead body, cleaning outside body.’!!!

Respected sister, to preach is easy….to practice what one preaches is priceless!

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to The Lord’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. The Lord Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

Burhan