What is the ruling on a person saying: "If there were a way to return to this worldly life after death, I would not wish for it," while believing that there is no such way?
The aforementioned statement contains no religious impediment. The belief that the dead will not return to this world is true, and this does not contradict Allah's power. For He, glory be to Him, has decreed and judged that no one shall return to this world after their death, as was narrated in the of Jabir ibn Abdullah concerning his martyred father and his desire to return to this world to be martyred again, whereupon Allah Almighty said: "Indeed, it has already preceded from Me that they will not return to it [the world]." And regarding this, the verse was revealed: "{And never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead}."
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