The place of the belief of hereafter in terms of the method of invitation to the religion in the Koran and the example of the companions of the cave

In this study, it has been tried to show how an important and effective invitation method is the faith in the Hereafter while inviting to the religion by starting from the close relation between faith in Allah and faith in the Hereafter. Because the principles of faith of the Islamic religion have long been collected in three main titles, namely, tawhid (oneness), prophethood, and mead (hereafter). Our thesis consists of an introduction and three chapters. The basic principles of the Islamic belief, and especially tawhid (oneness), are discussed in the first part. It is mentioned about the place of the belief in the Hereafter and the states in the Hereafter in the Islamic thought. The second part is the main skeleton of the study. In this chapter, firstly, the view of the Hereafter of the ignorant people and believers in the Qur'an are studied. Mind preparation has been made to use the belief in the Hereafter as an effective method by submitting the presence of the life of the Hereafter with mental and transitory evidence. In the context of the Qur'an, it is revealed how the Qur'an, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and other prophets used the faith of the Hereafter in their invitation to religion as an effective method. In the third chapter, it has been mentioned about the aims of the parables in the Qur'an after giving general information about the parables which are the most effective methods of narration of the Qur'an. The Companions of the Cave (Ashab-i Kehf) parable is discussed in the context of the resurrection. The importance of the parable of the Companions of the Cave for an inviter is emphasized in the terms of the resurrection after death by carrying a ghayb (unseen/unperceivable) subject to the world that is seen/perceivable. Keywords: Hereafter, Invitation, The Companions of the Cave (Ashab-i Kehf), Resurrection, Parable.