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Prince Ali
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The people at that time used their aesthetic, rational and moral consciousness and realized the truth brought to them by the Prophets. People were influenced very much by seeing the classic lives of the Prophets as well.
Life after death was biggest point to prove for Prophets because its perceptual experience was not possible. Allah answered all the doubts regarding this point in QURAN-E-PAK. When people of MAKKAH denied believing the possibility of life after death saying that how can dead be filled with lives again. ALLAH ALMIGHTY exposed the weakness of their stand by giving them the rational and logical argument in QURAN in surah 36 Ayat 78-81:
"And he (man) presents for us an example and forgets his (own) creation.
He says, "Who will give life to bones while they crumbled?" Say, "He will give them life who produced them the first time and He is, of all creation, Knowing." (It is), He who made for you from the green tree, fire, and then from it you ignite. Is not He who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the likes of them? Yes, (it is so); and He is the Knowing Creator."
Here Allah has clearly made the disbelievers speechless by reminding them that Allah has done it once already by giving them life and he can do it again and again as many times as he want to. But those who still don’t agree and are just stuck to believe in what their ancestors taught them they just don’t want to be logical. Allah then tells us what will happen in life after death.
Those who agreed will be awarded with a place in Heaven.
Those who disagreed will be punished in Hell.
Before the arrival of PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH) in Arab, People were indulged in all kind of bad things like, Wine, tribal feuds, gambling, plundering and murdering. But when they accepted Islam as their true religion all evilness was finished from their hearts. Some would have been scared of Hell and Allah's anger and some would have fallen in love with Heaven and Allah for His countless blessings. As everything that was presented to people was very logical people understood that this life is just temporary and a never ending life is what awaits them. And when they knew that this temporary life is just a test whose result would be declared in the life after death and on that result their never ending life after death would be decided (either Hell or Heaven). This is the main thing that would have encouraged people to embrace the risk of being totally alienated from their own worldly community and become the followers of One Allah and his Prophets.
