The Belief in Resurrection in the Pre-Islam Period

The Belief in Resurrection in the Pre-Islam Period

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The belief in the Resurrection and in the day when all dead people become alive again has been the subject of much debate among the followers of different religious schools of thought. Some support it but others ignore it. Providing historical, Quranic and literary proofs, the article underlines that, to the exclusion of few people, the people in the pre- Islam era did not believe in the Resurrection.After introducing an account about Dahriyyah, Zandiqah and Bulyah, three groups that were advocate of the idea of the Resurection; the article concludes that the people in the pre-Islam period did not believe in the Resurrection, though evidence confirms that the idea of Resurrection in that period was of the special concern of some people who used to inquire about it whenever theymet the Holy Prophet.pragmatism, Casirer's mystical theory, Wittgenstein's language games, and so on.

2) Religious language is intended to manifest reality and describe the facts i.e. (cognitive view), as in the case of the Islamic thinker's theory, Aquinas's theory of analog, Basil Michell's theory of falsifiability, John Hick's theory of otherworldly verifiability, and so on.To sum up, religious language doesn't have one particular function; it is a combination of different languages.