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Death & Afterlife Quotes

Quran and Hadith quotes about death, the Hereafter, accountability, and preparing for the eternal life.

Quran

كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ١٨٥

Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your full compensation on the Day of Resurrection.

Surah Ali 'Imran 185
Quran

إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ١٥٦

We belong to Allah, and to Him we return.

Surah Al-Baqarah 156
Quran

اللَّهُ يَتَوَفَّى الْأَنفُسَ حِينَ مَوْتِهَا٤٢

Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and that which has not yet reached its term during their sleep.

Surah Az-Zumar 42
Quran

فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِي ٱلصُّورِ فَلَآ أَنسَابَ بَيۡنَهُمۡ يَوۡمَئِذࣲ وَلَا يَتَسَآءَلُونَ١٠١

So when the Horn is blown, no relationship will there be among them that Day, nor will they ask about one another

Surah Al-Mu'minun 101
Quran

يَعۡلَمُ مَا يَلِجُ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا يَخۡرُجُ مِنۡهَا وَمَا يَنزِلُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا يَعۡرُجُ فِيهَاۚ وَهُوَ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ٱلۡغَفُورُ٢

He knows what penetrates into the earth and what emerges from it and what descends from the heaven and what ascends therein. And He is the Merciful, the Forgiving

Surah Saba 2
Hadith

Remember often the destroyer of pleasures — death.

— Hadith, Sunan at-Tirmidhi
Hadith

The world is the prison of the believer and the paradise of the disbeliever.

— Hadith, Sahih Muslim
Hadith

The believer's shade on the Day of Resurrection will be his charity.

— Hadith, Sahih al-Bukhari
Quran

الْمُمِيتُ٢٣

The Bringer of Death — He takes life at its appointed time

Surah Al-Hijr 23
Quran

الْآخِرُ٣

The Last — Nothing will remain after Him

Surah Al-Hadid 3

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