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Is a person resurrected in another form after death and before the Day of Resurrection?

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When a human dies, their body decomposes and perishes, except for the ajb al-dhanab (a small bone at the base of the spine). At the advent of the Hour, Allah will send down rain, which will cause bodies to sprout forth from this bone, so that humans are recreated as they were before their death.

After emerging from the graves and the reckoning, the body will remain in its previous form. However, when the people of Paradise enter Paradise and the people of Hellfire enter Hellfire, Allah will alter their forms and appearances.

Description of the People of Hellfire: The distance between the shoulders of a disbeliever is a three-day journey for a fast rider. The molar tooth of a disbeliever is like Mount Uhud, and the thickness of their skin is a three-day journey.

Description of the People of Paradise: They will enter Paradise in the likeness of the full moon. They will not urinate, defecate, spit, or blow their noses. Their combs will be of gold, their sweat will be musk, and their censers will be of aloeswood (a type of fragrant wood). Their spouses will be the Houris (beautiful wide-eyed maidens). They will enter Paradise hairless, beardless, with kohl-rimmed eyes, appearing to be thirty or thirty-three years old, all in the image of one man, in the likeness of their father Adam, sixty cubits tall.

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