11 Preface ۞ قُل يَتَوَفّاكُم مَلَكُ المَوتِ الَّذي وُكِّلَ بِكُم ثُمَّ إِلىٰ رَبِّكُم تُرجَعونَYusuf AliSay: “The Angel of Death, put in charge of you, will (duly) take your souls1 then shall ye be brought back to your Lord.” If death is certain, as it is, and this life by itself in no way satisfies our instincts and expectations, we may be sure that the agency which separates our soul from our bodies will bring us into the new world. If we believe in a soul at allthe very foundation of Religion?we must believe in a Future, without which the soul has no meaning.