I believe afterlife. And I also believe our obsessions will not let us go until we get rid of our attachment to material things. For example a mingy person who only gives importance to money will be more obsessed when he dies and becomes a soul because he wont have money anymore. This will be his hell until he accept this. As you can see he has to be his own savior if he wants to get out of his hell. He is the one who will judge himself. Because he is also a part of god.

 You can say so.

As you know holly books use symbolism to express some abstract concepts to be understood easily by ordinary people. So they objectify these concepts and make them more understandable. For example in the bible sometimes stars represent those who radiate light, spiritual instruction(1) and sea represents restless masses of society, usually unruly and lawless.(2) Main question here is heaven and hell are also symbols or real places? Let´s see what two most well known İslamic scholar say about this matter.

İbn Sina (980-1037) who is known as Avicenna in the west tells(in his work "eş-Şifa") that human mind is not fully capable of understanding some abstract concepts and sometimes it needs concrete examples to fully comprehend them. He tells heaven and hell are symbols and there are not a garden-shaped heaven and a hell consists of fire.(3)

İbn Tufail(1105-1185) tells (in his philosophical novel "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan") that considering symbols same with symbolized things can confuse and misguide us. He tells, divine substances are beyond objects and they have no relations with them. They can only be described symbolically. So hell and heaven are only symbols.

If they are symbols what they mean? I think hell is a cage(metaphorically) which a person puts himself/herself in because of his/her blindly attachment to material things and heaven is a situation of a person freed himself/herself from this attachment.

(1) http://www.revelation-today.com/A1Bible%20Symbols.htm#Stars
(2) http://www.revelation-today.com/A1Bible%20Symbols.htm#Sea
(3) Dodurgalı, Abdurrahman, İbn Sina Felsefesinde Eğitim, İstanbul 1995, p. 181

 The biggest evil (thing) can be done to a person is to imprison him/her in a hope.

1)Hiçbir haber iyi haber değildir.(definition)

2)Hiçbir haber iyi değil. (situation)

 Because of old age.

vazgeçmemizi mi istiyorsun?
vazgeçmemizi istiyor musun?

Both correct. Emphasises are different.

Today I read Osman Şahin´s "Mahşer(Last Judgement)." It is a story book. There are two short and one long story that includes 8 sub-stories. When you look at the stories in general, you see a smooth and fabulous telling with great pastoral images. The long story(Last Judgement) that gave its name to book is reminding me "One Thousand And One Nights" tales. In this story the teller whose name is Huma was stuck in a cave with his dead husband and three bandits and she told folk tales to distract them because she could get raped. Each tale she told was about one famous bandit. She told the tales without knowing they belong to those bandits. Bandits were surprised. They thought that Huma was some kind of a mysterious woman maybe even a witch. And they left the cave without touching her.

The interesting thing is each blood-thirsty bandit had a tragic life that turned them into monsters. While Huma was telling their stories, they faced with their pasts and relived them. This was like a catharsis. As a reader I felt their sorrows.

As I mentioned before the telling is both "fabulous" as metaphorical and literal. It was a long time since I have read such great stories. The author has also a story book which contains 13 chosen stories of him translated into English. The title of the book is "Tales From The Taurus" You can get it if you want. Have a nice day.

Note: Huma is also name of a legendary bird.