[Saki]

I find it difficult to reconcile these two perspectives; despite the scientific miracles contained in the Quran, science suggests that after death we return to the state we were in before birth—implying that consciousness is a product of the brain and that a return to nothingness negates the existence of life after death. From a scientific standpoint, the cessation of subjective experience is akin to a falling stone. Here, a sharp contrast emerges between science and Islam: science views consciousness as ceasing completely and ceasing to exist, whereas Islam affirms its continuity after death. Is consciousness, then, the "soul"?

 

[Wood Pigeon]

If Jannah includes sight, hearing, touch, taste, and continued personal existence, then Islam clearly does not teach eternal unconsciousness. The idea that death means total oblivion is a materialist conclusion, not an Islamic one. The soul continues, and the body will be resurrected in a perfected state by Allah’s will.

As Salaamu Alaykum!
Wood Pigeon