20فَما لَهُم لا يُؤمِنونَMuhammad AsadWhat, then, is amiss with them that they will not believe [in a life to come]?1Since the inexorable movement of all that exists from stage to stage or from one condition into another corresponds to a fundamental law evident in all creation, it is unreasonable to assume that man alone should be an exception, and that his onward movement should cease at the moment of his bodily death, not to be followed by a change-over into another state of being.