What is the Shar'i (Islamic legal) evidence for the absence of worship after death?
The Hereafter is the abode of recompense, not an abode of action or trial. However, the people of Paradise will be inspired to glorify and praise God, as stated in the . Similarly, the believers will prostrate to their Lord in the plains of resurrection. Thus, some form of obligation and trial occurs after death. Ibn Kathir said that the Hereafter being an abode of recompense does not negate obligation in its plains before entering Paradise or Hellfire. He cited as evidence the verse: "The Day a Shin will be uncovered and they will be invited to prostration, but they will not be able" (68:42), and the prostration of theievers to God on the Day of Resurrection, and the inability of the hypocrites to do so.
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