ABSTRACT
Islamic beliefs concerning death and dying are important and intrinsic to the faith. Mainstream Islamic beliefs concerning the dead involve the process by which the dead are prepared for bliss or torment in the next existence. Qur'anic descriptions of the end of the world are cataclysmic in nature, due to occur at any particular time, and once it does occur, there will be no possibility of repentance for humanity. Mainstream Muslim belief holds that once the separation at the Day of Judgment happens it is final, and eternal in nature. Popular beliefs about death principally emphasize the idea that the deceased continue to exist in their graves or at least in some accessible form to the living. One of the major legal issues that has been raised during the contemporary period involves the question of the time of death, and whether it is permissible to revive a dead person.
