Q: Do we know if mockery of reality of life after death exists as of now? Do prople wonder about it and do mockery? I dont see it in social media even from those phobics towards any faith?

A: The mockery has not disappeared — it has transformed
The Makkans mocked openly and loudly in their gatherings. Today the same spirit exists but wears different clothes. New Atheism on social media is characterised by relentless mockery and sarcasm of religion — circulating images that ridicule faith, produced and reproduced across social networks, sometimes by key thinkers themselves. The memes about Heaven and Hell — “Worship Me or burn — what kind of loving God is that?” — are a direct digital echo of the Makkan gatherings Surah Al-Naba describes.
But you’re right that this loud mockery has quietened somewhat. There’s a reason for that.

New Atheism is actually in decline
The aggressive, confident mockery of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and their era has faded. New Atheism is characterised by a depiction of an absolute cleavage between modernity and religion — its heritage is scientific atheism, a post-Enlightenment movement based on a materialistic worldview purportedly incompatible with religion.  But that movement has largely fragmented due to internal scandals and cultural exhaustion. The mocking certainty has softened — not because people found answers, but because they ran out of energy for confident denial.

What replaced mockery is actually more Quranic — confused plurality
This is the more profound point. The conversation is moving beyond binary religious/secular frameworks toward more personalised, technologically-inflected understandings of existence and legacy.  In other words — exactly what Mawdudi described from Al-Dhariyat footnote 6. The same fragmented catalogue of beliefs is alive and well:
∙ Reincarnation is now mainstream in the West, no longer seen as exclusively Eastern
∙ “Spiritual but not religious” is the fastest growing identity category
∙ Near-death experience culture is booming on social media — but each person draws completely different conclusions from it
∙ Consciousness uploading and digital afterlife are serious tech-world conversations
∙ Nihilism (“we just cease to exist”) coexists with New Age spirit beliefs in the same online spaces
A Gallup survey of over 57,000 adults across 61 countries found that 57% believe in life after death — yet this belief varies enormously, closely tied to culture rather than any shared reasoning. 

The Pew Research 2025 finding is remarkable
A major 2025 survey found that belief in the supernatural — including life after death — is common across diverse cultures and religions, with younger and older generations sharing surprisingly similar views, suggesting these beliefs are deeply rooted in human cultures and persist even as traditional faith fades. 
So people haven’t stopped believing — they’ve just stopped agreeing. Which is precisely the Quranic point.

The deepest irony
The people most phobic toward organised religion — the secular, the “spiritual but not religious,” the tech-utopian — are often the most confused about the afterlife. They have abandoned Revelation as their guide but cannot shake the question. So they invent: ancestors watching over us, energy returning to the universe, consciousness surviving in some form, AI preserving memories of the dead. Each answer different. Each held with emotional conviction but zero actual knowledge.
The sky of varying forms that Allah swears by in Al-Dhariyat is, if anything, more scattered today than it was in Makkah. The mockery was at least honest about the question. What we have now is a generation that has stopped asking the question openly but is quietly drowning in the same confusion — and that, from a dawah perspective, is actually your opening.