Stories of the Prophets in the context of "Afterlife"

⭐ In the context of the afterlife, how is the continuation of an individual’s existence typically conceptualized across various belief systems?

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⭐ Core Definition: Stories of the Prophets

The Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (Arabic: قِصَص الْأَنـۢبِيَاء, lit.'Stories of the Prophets') is any of various collections of stories about figures recognised as prophets and messengers in Islam, closely related to tafsīr (exegesis of the Qur'an).

Since the Quran refers only parabolically to the stories of the prophets, assuming the audience is able to complete the rest from their own knowledge, it became necessary to store the version the original audience had in mind to keep the purpose of the message, when Islam met other cultures during its expansion.

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👉 Stories of the Prophets in the context of Afterlife

The afterlife or life after death is a postulated existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body. The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spirit, which carries with it one's personal identity.

In some views, this continued existence takes place in a spiritual realm, while in others, the individual may be reborn into this world and begin the life cycle over again in a process referred to as reincarnation, likely with no memory of what they have done in the past. In this latter view, such rebirths and deaths may take place over and over again continuously until the individual gains entry to a spiritual realm or otherworld. Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism, and metaphysics.

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