The form you had on your entrance into this world, and your present form, are not the same; hence there is no necessity of your perishing, on account of the perishing of your body.

Your spirit came into this world a stranger, it is only sojourning, in a temporary home.

From the trials and tempests of this troublesome life, our refuge is in God.

In reunion with him we shall find eternal rest--a rest without sorrow, a joy without pain, a strength without infirmity, a knowledge without doubt, a tranquil and yet an ecstatic vision of the source of life and light and glory, the source from which we came." So says the Saracen philosopher, Al-Gazzali (A.D.

1010).
In a stone the material particles are in a state of stable equilibrium; it may, therefore, endure forever.