Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 13
13 laws of nature account for such events? Nay, they only tell us that inferior power is vanquished when it confronts superior power and that the weak are destroyed at the hands of the strong. 9. We also believe that man will be raised after death and will be held to account for his deeds. Those who do good deeds will be rewarded and those who break God’s commandments will be severely punished. Nothing can save man from being raised again. Even if his body is eaten by the birds of the air or beasts of the jungle, or the worms of the earth disintegrate his body and transform it into other matter, or if his very bones are burnt to ashes, he shall still be raised and have to answer before his Creator. Divine Omnipotence is not dependent on the presence of the body to resurrect someone, for God can recreate him from the smallest particle of the body or the subtlest part of the soul. This indeed is how it will be, for the bodies may be reduced to ashes but their minute particles do not perish. Nor can the soul that is housed in the body be destroyed without the will of God. 10. We believe that those who deny God and oppose his religion, unless He forgives them out of His perfect grace, will abide in a place that is called Hell, wherein they will suffer chastisement in the form of fire and extreme cold. The object will not be to cause suffering, rather it will be to reform them for the future. They will do nothing but wail and lament and regret until the Mercy of God, which encompasses all things, will encompass them and the following promise will be fulfilled: