المعنى الاصطلاحي

Allah resurrecting people in their graves after their death for being questioned by the angels, and resurrecting them on the Day of Judgment for reckoning and recompense.

الشرح المختصر

"I`aadah" is that Allah the Almighty resurrects people by restoring their souls to their former worldly bodies, and this restoration is of two levels: 1. Restoring the souls to the bodies in the graves for being questioned by the angels before the Day of Judgment. 2. Restoring the souls to the bodies on the Day of Judgment when Israfil blows into the trumpet for the second time, and Allah gathers all the scattered bodily parts, restoring each soul to its body for the reckoning and for receiving reward or punishment. This restoration does not mean the return to the known life that the soul has inside the body and its maintenance that requires food and the like; rather, the body comes to have a different kind of life in a different manner. One of the names of Allah the Almighty is "Al-Mu`eed", which means the one who restores people to death after life in this world, and to life after death on the Day of Judgment. Belief in the "Ma`aad" (restoration) is part of belief in the unseen, and it is proved by the Qur'an, Sunnah, intellect, and sound natural disposition. The Day of Judgment is the Last Day on which people will rise from their graves for the Lord of the Worlds.

التعريف اللغوي المختصر

"I`aadah": restoring something to its former state, also means repeating. Opposite: "ibtidaa" (initiating).

التعريف

To redo perfectly something that had been done because of a fault in the first action.