Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

In Bahá ' í belief, the coming of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, signals the fulfilment of previous eschatological expectations of Islam, Christianity and other major religions.

Ismaili Islam also has some of the characteristics associated with esotericism as defined by Faivre, e. g. the belief in an intermediate spiritual sphere mediating between humans and the divine.

In Islam, faith ( iman ) is complete submission to the will of God, which includes belief, profession and the body's performance of deeds, consistent with the commission as vicegerent on Earth, all according to God's will.

The unequivocal monotheism of Islam ( often described as the foundation of the religion and its most fundamental article of faith ) arose as a reaction to this belief system.

Islam teaches the belief in angels who always act on the command of the supreme God, most prominently the archangels Jibrail, Mikail, Israfil and Azrail.

* a movement of " Muslims who draw upon the belief, symbols, and language of Islam to inspire, shape, and animate political activity ;" which may contain moderate, tolerant, peaceful activists, and / or those who " preach intolerance and espouse violence.

A fundamental tenet of Islam is belief in the Day of Resurrection, Qiyāmah.

In Islam, Isa is believed to hold the task of killing the false messiah ( al-Dajjal, a figure similar to the Antichrist in Christianity ), who will emerge shortly before him during Qiyamah ( Armageddon in Islamic belief ).

Manama and its inhabitants were first introduced to Islam during the 7th century and by the 9th century began to lean to a more conservative almost socialist belief system that caused considerable friction with the surrounding Muslim lands.

Before the 1890 Mormon Manifesto against plural marriage, Mormonism and Islam also shared in the belief in and practice of plural marriage, a practice now held in common by Islam and various branches of Mormon fundamentalism.

The main belief of The Nation of Islam and its followers is that there is no other God but Allah.

Ian Stevenson reported that belief in reincarnation is held ( with variations in details ) by adherents of almost all major religions except Christianity and Islam.

The Muslims ' belief in the Torah, as well as the prophethood of Moses, is one of the fundamental tenets of Islam.

The Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all affirm monotheism, or belief in one God.

On 30 June 2000, Muslim nations that are members of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ) officially resolved to support the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, an alternative document that says people have " freedom and right to a dignified life in accordance with the Islamic Shari ’ ah ", without any discrimination on grounds of " race, colour, language, sex, religious belief, political affiliation, social status or other considerations ".

“ Pre-marital, extra-marital and same-sex relationships are all forbidden in Islam .” While most members of these groups don ’ t adhere to the strict nature of their religious organization ’ s belief on cohabitation, the pressure from other members of the group or religious authorities lead to a drop in cohabitation.

Some scholars take the view that " they may not have been Isamailis at all at the outset, and their conduct and customs gave plausibility to the belief that they were not merely heretics but bitter enemies of Islam.

As further described in the same online source, their ( matrilineal ) adat and their Islam religion each help the other to avoid the extremes of some modern global trends: Their strong belief in and practice of adat helps their Islam religion to not adopt a " simplistic anti-Western " version of Islam, while their strong belief in and practice of both Islam and adat helps the Minangs to limit or avoid some undesired effects of modern global capitalism.

The council agreed it should more firmly state its belief in and dependence on the Bible.

Schweitzer, the pastor's son, grew up in this exceptional environment of religious tolerance, and developed the belief that true Christianity should always work towards a unity of faith and purpose.

Despite the lack of a categorical counterindication, the belief that alcohol and antibacterials should never be mixed is widespread.

Carnegie wrote " The Gospel of Wealth ", an article in which he stated his belief that the rich should use their wealth to help enrich society.

" For Sakharov the indeterminacy of the future supported his belief that he could, and should, take personal responsibility for it.

While these plants are not sold anywhere for culinary use, their visual similarity to bay leaves has led to the oft-repeated belief that bay leaves should be removed from food after cooking because they are poisonous.

Brueys refused, in the belief that his squadron could provide essential support to the French army on shore, and called his captains aboard his 120-gun flagship Orient to discuss their response should Nelson discover the fleet in its anchorage.

For objectivists, probability objectively measures the plausibility of propositions, i. e. the probability of a proposition corresponds to a reasonable belief everyone ( even a " robot ") sharing the same knowledge should share in accordance with the rules of Bayesian statistics, which can be justified by requirements of rationality and consistency.

These are political positions based partly on a belief that individuals should not coercively prevent others from exercising freedom of action.

Defeasibility theory maintains that there should be no overriding or defeating truths for the reasons that justify one's belief.

Morris stands by the belief that a subject should not be paid for being themselves, even in front of the camera.

Constraint-induced therapy contrasts sharply with traditional therapy by the strong belief that mechanisms to compensate for lost language function should not be used unless absolutely necessary, even in everyday life.

The boldest, most radical notion in the book is [...] the belief that the individual can and should proceed toward truth by means of his own powers of perception and reasoning ; and that he can in this way discover truths previously unknown.

Mathematicians thus accepted his belief that geometry should use no tools but compass and straightedge – never measuring instruments such as a marked ruler or a protractor, because these were a workman ’ s tools, not worthy of a scholar.

Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka offered Ishirō Honda a chance to direct this film, but he strongly rejected the offer, because of what came of Godzilla in the 1970s, and his belief that Godzilla should have been permanently laid to rest after Eiji Tsuburaya's death.

Western powers chose to decline on this proposal, due to belief that Germany should be able to join NATO and that such a negotiation with the Soviet Union would be seen as a capitulation.

It is something of a mystery why popular belief should have firmly credited him with a discovery which in fact was made by others.

These are political positions based partly on a belief that individuals should not coercively prevent others from exercising freedom of action.

For McTaggart " philosophy can give us very little, if any, guidance in action ... Why should a Hegelian citizen be surprised that his belief as to the organic nature of the Absolute does not help him in deciding how to vote?

Would a Hegelian engineer be reasonable in expecting that his belief that all matter is spirit should help him in planning a bridge?

A 2007 survey of British Muslims showed that 61 % believe homosexuality should be illegal, with up to 71 % young British Muslims holding this belief.

" In his diaries, he expressed the belief that German diplomacy should find a way to exploit the emerging tensions between Stalin and the West, but he proclaimed foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, whom Hitler would not abandon, incapable of such a feat.

Wycliffe wanted to see his ideas actualised – his fundamental belief was that the Church should be poor, as in the days of the apostles.

Ribbentrop expressed his firmly-held belief that neither Britain nor France would go to war for Poland, but if that should occur, he fully expected the Italians to honour the terms of the Pact of Steel ( which was both an offensive and defensive treaty ), and declare war not only on Poland, but on the Western powers if necessary.