A Critical Analysis of the Relationship between Action and its Reward in the Afterlife from the Point of View of the Qur'an Commentators; with an Emphasis on Contemporary Interpretations

Abstract

The topics related to life after death are among the most complex theological topics, and one of these topics is the quality of reward for actions in life after death. The current research - using the library method in collecting information and the descriptive-analytical method in classifying data and the critical method in evaluating the views - has come to the conclusion that the commentators have presented five opinions about the quality of the hereafter reward. These views are 1) the manifestation of the book of deeds, not the deeds themselves, 2) seeing the punishment of the deeds, 3) the manifestation of the deeds themselves and good and bad morals, 4) the destruction of the worldly form and the manifestation of the afterlife form of actions, 5) the emergence of a real relationship between actions and rewards. This research evaluates these five points of view and in a novel discussion, identifies thirteen categories of Quranic verses in the framework of the research problem and analyzes the above five points of view with thirteen categories of verses and shows them in the end. The combination of Sadra's and Allameh Tabatabai's views is the correct answer to the research question, and other views are not completely compatible with the Quranic verses.

Keywords

• resurrection
• hereafter
• punishment of action
• interpretation of quran
• reward and punishment