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== Similarities - but not exact parralels == | == Similarities - but not exact parralels == | ||
=== Souls fall 'asleep' at death === | |||
{{Quote|Reynolds, Gabriel Said. Allah: God in the Qur'an (pp. 72-73). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.|The Sleep of Souls This notion that souls will fall “asleep” at death is vividly depicted in two qur’anic stories. The first of these is contained in one verse of Sura 2 and has to do with a man and his donkey: | {{Quote|Reynolds, Gabriel Said. Allah: God in the Qur'an (pp. 72-73). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.|The Sleep of Souls This notion that souls will fall “asleep” at death is vividly depicted in two qur’anic stories. The first of these is contained in one verse of Sura 2 and has to do with a man and his donkey: | ||
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{{Quote|Reynolds, Gabriel Said. Allah: God in the Qur'an (p. 254). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.|6. This verse is related to an anecdote found in the Paraleipomena of Jeremiah (a Jewish text, also known as 4 Baruch, from the second century AD) by which Abimelech (see Jer 38:7–13) is made to fall asleep just before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians and is awoken sixty-six years later, when Jerusalem lies in ruins.}} | {{Quote|Reynolds, Gabriel Said. Allah: God in the Qur'an (p. 254). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.|6. This verse is related to an anecdote found in the Paraleipomena of Jeremiah (a Jewish text, also known as 4 Baruch, from the second century AD) by which Abimelech (see Jer 38:7–13) is made to fall asleep just before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians and is awoken sixty-six years later, when Jerusalem lies in ruins.}} | ||
=== Souls are taken away at night === | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|39|42}}|<b>Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those who have not died, in their sleep.</b> Then He retains those for whom He has ordained death and releases the others until a specified time. There are indeed signs in that for a people who reflect.}}{{Quote|{{Quran|6|60}}|<b>It is He who takes your souls by night,</b> and He knows what you do by day, then He reanimates you therein so that a specified term may be completed. Then to Him will be your return, whereat He will inform you concerning what you used to do.}}Tesei (2016) notes this idea may mimic a late antique Syriac Christian parallel in the poetical language used by Ephrem, who in the Nisibene hymns (7:15).[1]<ref>At the same time, the Quran also compares death to the “common sleep” that people experience on a daily basis. This seems to be the case in the cryptic statement found in Q 39:42 (cf. Q 6:60), “God takes the souls at the time of their death (ḥīna mawtihā), and [He takes] that which has not died, in its sleep ( fī manāmihā); He withholds that against which He has decreed death, but sets loose the other until a stated term”. This obscure passage appears to indicate that sleep is a death-like state; sleepers resemble the dead since their souls enter into a state similar to that which they will experience at the moment of death. However, unlike the souls of the dead, which will be raised only on the Day of Resurrection, the ordinary sleeper’s soul is sent back when he awakens―that is, of course, until the time of his death. This parallel between death and “common sleep” finds a fairly close correspondence in the poetical language used by Ephrem, who in the Nisibene hymns (7:15) affirms that: “The one who lies down to sleep resembles the departed and death resembles a dream, and the resurrection the morning”. <pp40-41> | |||
In these passages the Quran’s eschatological discourse is particularly close to that formulated by Babai, in whose ideas the belief in the soul’s sleep is intimately connected to the strong affirmation of the physical resurrection of the body on the Day of Judgment. <pp42> | |||
Tesei, Tommaso. (2016). 2 The barzakh and the Intermediate State of the Dead in the Quran. 10.1163/9789004301368_003. | |||
<nowiki>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344524709_2_The_barzakh_and_the_Intermediate_State_of_the_Dead_in_the_Quran</nowiki> | |||
Tesei, Tommaso. (2016). "2 The barzakh and the Intermediate State of the Dead in the Quran". pp. 40-42 In Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004301368_003</nowiki> (Open access)</ref> | |||
He mentions sleep resembles death, and Xtain writers wrote about sleep metaphorically Jesus's death and waking up like the resurrection; this taken literally by Muhammad, could well have been done by Arabic people pre-Islam. | |||
==Parallels in the hadith== | ==Parallels in the hadith== | ||