Which created first by Allah. Life or Death?

This is very interesting question that might be in your mind but in most minds, it does not exist because people don’t care to think about these kind of topics. But one day I had heard a man who was answering this question and it really impressed me.

Let me first create a ground for this question. Suppose you get a job in an organization and you are given a good pay. Now you went to your office and started working there. Then you are told that the pay you will be given is not the actual pay. In this pay, your amount of your cafe, transportation and tea will be deducted. Now what would happen is that you will ask your boss about it and you would say that you had not told me about this before so I won’t accept your offer. Am i right?

Now take the scenerio in my question. If life was created first then we would have the chance to ask our God (Allah) that it is not fair that you had not told us about the death. So it is logically proven that death was created first so that people would not ask or tell that Allah didn’t told us.

I' like to start with a disclaimer: *The answer below is simply my opinion as in what I feel could be perhaps a possible answer. I do not know if there is anything written on it from islamic point of view. So, please do not take my answer as being islamically correct one, it is only my way of looking at things (for the time-being at least unless someone corrects me or I come across proper answers...).*

Imagine someone has an idea of creating a statue of a man. He creates that statue. It merely exists. Is it dead or alive? When do we say something is alive/living or dead? What is our conception and definition of life and death? The notion of soul plays an important part here. Lets say when the soul is blown into that statue, it will become alive. This very moment, when the soul is blown in, not only marks the beginning of that statue's "life", but also it's "death"...since we know that certain things in our life are predestined. So, in this sense, both life and death are created at the same time. Yes, we could argue that in order to be dead, something needs to be alive first, but this could be simply our of looking at things. A soul could be like that statue, which exists, but it is only when the soul enters the human body that it starts living and at that very moment it is also decided how long it is going to stay in that body. Does the soul afterwards die or is it still alive? It might not be doing the same things as when it was in the body, but it does not completely die or does it? I feel, our souls never really die, they just go through different journeys until they reach their final destination.

Just some thoughts.

If you are talking about human life than ofcourse life was created first in the form of Adam and Eve

i suppose life was created first because the concept of death was only exclusive upon man's existence. before that, there was no concept of death as there was no concept of temporary life on earth. as for the existence of non-men, i think they were not killed or put to death, i think they were imprisoned in Hell to be damned. but i could be wrong.

and Allah SWT knows best.

Hello all,

According to the Bible, God gave life to Adam, and God didn't create death, but death is simply the lack of life, same as dark is the lack of light. I hope that this will answer your question. May God Bless You All!

Dan D.