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Some Secrets of the Qur'an: Those Who are Killed in the Way of God are Not Dead

Contents
  1. Introduction
  2. God Answers Everyone's Prayers
  3. God Increases His Blessings on Those Who are Grateful
  4. Secrets of Submission to One's Fate and Putting One's Trust in God
  5. There is Good in Every Event
  6. There is Surely Ease with Every Difficulty
  7. God Obscures the Comprehension of Disbelievers
  8. God Bestows Understanding on Those Who Fear Him
  9. Those Who Do Good Meet Goodness
  10. There is Light in Believers' Faces, but Disgrace in Those of Disbelievers
  11. The Secret that God Erases Bad Actions
  12. Divine Purposes in Spending in God's Way
  13. The Effect of Good Actions and Good Words
  14. God Certainly Helps Those Who Help His Religion
  15. Quarrelling Causes Loss of Strength
  16. Only in the Remembrance of God Do Hearts Find Satisfaction
  17. The Cunning of Satan is Weak
  18. Obeying the Majority Misleads Man from the Right Path
  19. Secrets in the Expansion and Diminishing of Blessings
  20. Obedience to the Messenger is Obedience to God
  21. A Small Group of Believers Can Overcome a Vast Majority of Disbelievers
  22. God Makes His Religion Supreme When One Worships Him Alone
  23. The Life of the World is in Fact Very Brief
  24. God Casts Dread into the Hearts of Disbelievers
  25. Wisdom and Decisive Speaking are Blessings from God
  26. Man Will Also Account for His Thoughts and Intentions
  27. It is God Who Places Love in People's Hearts
  28. The Deaths of Disbelievers and Believers Will Not be the Same
  29. Prayer Keeps Man Away from Evil
  30. Those Who are Killed in the Way of God are Not Dead
  31. God is the Giver of Honour
  32. Secrets of Finding the Straight Path
  33. Man's Inner Self Commands Evil Acts
  34. Secrets of Abundance and the Wealth Given to People
  35. The Secret of Why God Does Not Immediately Punish the Disbelievers
  36. Conclusion

God has revealed in the Qur'an that those who die in His way are in fact not "dead", but are alive in His presence. This fact is related in verses as follows:

Do not suppose that those killed in the Way of God are dead. No indeed! They are alive and well provided for in the very presence of their Lord, delighting in the favour God has bestowed on them, rejoicing over those they left behind who have not yet joined them, feeling no fear and knowing no sorrow, rejoicing in blessings and favour from God and that God does not let the wage of the believers go to waste.

Surah Ali 'Imran: 169-171

Do not say that those who are killed in the Way of God are dead. On the contrary, they are alive but you are not aware of it.

Surat al-Baqara: 154

That guidance of martyrs is completed in God's presence, and the fact that they are welcomed to paradise is another secret God reveals in the Qur'an.

Their Lord responds to them:

'I will not let the deeds of any doer among you go to waste, male or female -you are both the same in that respect. Those who have left their homes or been driven out therefrom or suffered harm in My Cause and fought and were killed, I will erase their bad actions from them and admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, as a reward from God. The best of all rewards is with God.'

Surah Ali 'Imran: 195

Those who leave their homes in the cause of God and then are killed or die, God will provide for them handsomely. Truly God is the best Provider. He will admit them by an entrance, which is pleasing to them. God is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing.

Surat al-Hajj: 58-59

Facts revealed in the above verses about those who are killed in the way of God are among the secrets of the Qur'an, which are not known by people at large.