Life: Here and After

By Anwer

Religion is easy to follow. Just try to be near to perfection.

Religion is not merely chanting, ceremonies, and following family traditions.

Prayer is necessary to cure spiritual blindness.

Islamic philosophy followed a different course from Western philosophy despite their common roots.

The soul does not pass from parent to child, but animalism passes from parent to child.

Muslims are Christians without the Trinity.

Why do non-Arabs pray in Arabic?

Religion and Darwins theory of evolution are not mutually exclusive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 19, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477126738

Anwer

Mr. Anwer Ahmed was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on October 28, 1944. In the year 1967, he graduated from the University of Dhaka with a bachelor of commerce degree with honors. Then he joined Pakistan Air Force. He learned reciting the Qur’an and acquired Islamic knowledge during his captivity as a prisoner of war at Shagai Ford in the northwestern Pakistan. He repatriated to his native country, Bangladesh, in 1975 as a flying officer; and soon after, he migrated to the United States. It was in the United States that his student life started again; he earned his bachelor of science degree in accounting and finished his MBA in finance. He became an expert in federal government finance and accounting with the certification of Certified Government Financial Manager. He has in his credit twenty-five years of well-blended experience in all facets of federal financial and managerial accounting. This book is his first endeavor, and he intends to write more in future.

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Background of Humans

from the Perspective of Religion

Were there human beings on Earth before Adam? Leading progressive creationist Hugh Ross teaches something similar when he says that bipedal and tool-using large-brined primates roamed Earth for hundreds of thousands (perhaps a million) of years. Human fossils are found dated earlier than Adam’s genealogies could possibly allow.

Earth, with its entire natural growth process including living creature animals, was in existence when humans were still in heaven. Humans, which I intend to mean souls as opposed to bodies, were sent down to Earth; and the souls might have possessed the body of a man or manlike animal; let us call it man-animal. It was God’s plan that one day he would send a newly created soul to Earth. The combination of a man’s body and a soul creates a human in Earth. The Qur’an says, It is He who hath produces you… (6:98). Notice the difference here between creation and produce. In explanation, A. Yusuf Ali stated that the Arabic word Anshaaa is a process of creation, as a body has been created from earth or clay and a soul was given to that body to complete the creation of human.

According to Plato, This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence… The word soul is, according to several systems of thought, the connection between all living things on the planet to the world in much the same way that the soul is connected to the human body.

I believe a pre-Adamic stock of man did exist; otherwise, how could humans have multiplied to the numbers that we see today? The children of Adam and Eve surely did not marry their brothers and sisters. However, without human conscience, pre-Adamic stock must have been very different from human with souls. They had no spirit and no conscience. With the gradual integration of post-Adam stock with pre-Adam stock, spirit and soul are passed on to a new generation of mixed-Adam stock. This is where we are today.

If this theory is correct, then religion can be incorporated with Darwin’s theory of evolution, although it is not that simple, and it requires a whole lot of discussion. That is why we might have within us element of animalism and the element of humanity.

Soul does not pass from parent to child, but animalism passes from parent to child.

God created the human body with clay and with a plan to implant a soul into it and complete the process of creating humans. From the Qur’an, we can infer that God built the universe and the light long before God created humans when God ordered angels and jinn to bow down in front of mankind. Angels asked, Why create humans when we are all here to serve you, and these will create mischief and kill each other on the earth? Iblish (devil) said, You created human with clay, and I am made of fire. I am better than humans. From these statements from the Qur’an, it is possible to assume that the Earth was already in existence when Allah created