There are many statements in the Qur'an such as these: "Some faces on that day shall be downcast", said of the wicked, and: "They will be as monkeys, despised and hated." The real meaning of the former is, "We will cause the brightness, or the happiness, of their expression to fade away by throwing light upon their hidden crimes which so long have kept them bright and happy." The meaning of the latter is, "Those who have imitated that which they were not, will be taken for that which they are in reality, and not for that which they falsely pretend to be"; in other words, "We will lay bare the mockery of the impostors."

In the Gospel we read (John ix. 1-3), "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, 'Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?' Jesus answered, 'Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.'" This needs no interpretation, for it plainly says that the man's blindness was not the punishment of his former sins.

In the Qur'an it is written, "It is He who multiplied you on the earth, and to Him shall you be gathered." This denies a return to earth. Mention is made, however, of another life in that sura. "Every soul must taste of death, and ye shall only be paid your reward in full on the resurrection day." Here the resurrection is spoken of, the making alive of the souls without the physical body, and it is plainly said that this existence will be as clear and distinct as is our life on earth.