A New Body Is Bestowed in the Grave — Essence of Islam Vol. 2

14 Sep, 2026 Essence of Islam 0

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In this discourse from Essence of Islam (Volume 2), Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS), the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, expounds upon A New Body Is Bestowed in the Grave, presenting profound spiritual insights and scriptural verities.

Book Series: Essence of Islam (Volume 2)
Author: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (AS)
Section: Part 16: Resurrection
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righteous or disobedient, will be granted a definite bodily form of its own. That day has been appointed for the perfect manifestation of God when every person shall become acquainted fully with the existence of his Lord and shall arrive at the extreme point of his recompense. No one need wonder how God will accomplish this for He has power and does whatever He wills, as He has said Himself: 177 178
[Islami Usul ki Philosophy, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 10, pp. 402-407]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 414]

Islam sets forth the high philosophy that everyone is bestowed a kind of body in the grave which is necessary for experiencing delight and torment. We cannot say for creation of what material that new body is made, for this mortal body becomes dead and no one has observed it 177 Does not man see that We have created him from a mere sperm-drop? Yet lo! He is an open quarreller! And he coins similitudes for Us and forgets his own creation. He says, ‘Who can quicken the bones when they are decayed?’ Say, ‘He, Who created them the first time, will quicken them; and He knows every kind of creation full well.’—Ya Sin, 36:78-80 [Publisher] 178 Has not He Who created the heavens and the earth the power to create the like of them? Yea, and He is indeed the Supreme Creator, the AllKnowing. Verily His command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, ‘Be!’, and it begins to be. So Holy is He, in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things. And to Him will you all be brought back.—Ya Sin, 36:82-84 [Publisher]
[Kitab-ul-Bariyyah, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 13, pp. 70-71]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 414]

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