Suffering, self and what comes after
Step 1 of 8
Is all life suffering?
Buddhist teaching (the Pali texts)
A Buddhist reader will say that the title is not what the Buddha taught. Dukkha is unsatisfactoriness, and not pain at every moment. Pleasure is real, but craving for what passes is the cause of dukkha, and ending craving ends it. Everything made and passing is dukkha, so the end of it must be won by one's own work. Islam's turning to God is questioned as one more craving.
The case for it
In the first sermon the Buddha says that rebirth, old age, illness and death are dukkha. In brief, he says, the five grasping aggregates are dukkha. Dukkha means unsatisfactoriness as well as pain, so the Buddha did not teach that every moment is agony.
Where it falls short
Granted, and this page says so. Dukkha is wider than pain. The Qur'an likewise calls the goods of this world a deception, and says that hearts find satisfaction in remembering Allah (﷾). It also says that life holds good as well as hardship.