In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful.
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When an unbeliever is
about to depart from this world and go forward into the Next World, angels with black
faces descend from the heavens carrying rough hair- cloth and sit around him in
throngs stretching as far as the eye can see. Then the Angel of Death comes and
sits at his head and says, "Foul soul, come out to the wrath and anger of
Allah!" Then his soul divides up in his body and it is dragged out like a
skewer is pulled out of wet wool. Then the angel takes hold of it. When he has
grasped it, the other angels do not leave it in his hand even for the twinkling
of an eye. They take it and wrap it in the rough hair-cloth and a stench comes
out of it like the worst stench of a corpse on the face of the earth.
'Then they take it up
and whenever they take it past a company of angels, they ask, "Who is this
foul soul?" and the angels with the soul reply, "So-and-so the son of
so-and-so," using the worst names by which people used to call him in this
world. They bring him to the lowest heaven and ask for the gate to be opened
for him. It does not get opened.'
The Messenger of
Allah, May Allah bless him and grant him peace, and then recited, 'The gates of
heaven 'Will not be opened to them nor 'Will they enter the Garden until the
camel passes through the eye of the needle.' 'Then Allah, the Mighty and
Majestic, will say, "Register his
book in Sijjin in the lowest earth." Then his soul is flung down.'
The Prophet then
recited, 'whoever associates any- thing with Allah, it is as though he has
fallen from heaven and the birds snatch him away or the 'Wind sweeps him headlong
into a place far away. ''Then his soul is returned to his body and two angels come
and say to him, "Who is your Lord?" He replies, "Alas, alas, 1
do not know!"Then a voice calls from on high, "My slave has lied, so
spread out carpets from the Fire for him and open a gate of the Fire for
him!"Then a hot blast from it comes to him, his grave is made so narrow
for him that his ribs are pressed together, and a man with a hideous face and
clothing and a foul odour comes to him and
says, "Grieve on account of what has brought you disgrace for this is the
day which you were promised." He asks, "Who are you? Yours is a face which
presages evil." He replies, "I am your bad actions."Then he
says, "O Lord, do not let the .Last Hour come!"
Allah the Exalted says
in His Mighty Book regarding the words used by the two angels who question the
dead person in the grave, 'Allah confirms those who believe 'With the firm word,
in the life of this world and in the Next World. Allah leads astray the
wrongdoers, and Allah does whatever He 'Will. '
Courtesy of: An Abridgement of Ibn Al-Qayyim’s kitabur Ruh.
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