asalam
... He is lying on his death bed and his family are at his side. His father is calling for the doctor. His wife asks him: "To whom are you leaving us?". The man's little daughter asks him, "Why do you not answer me?", and his small boy cries but nobody responds to him. This is the situation Allaah, The Most High and The Most High, has informed us about:
"Nay, when the soul reaches the throat, and it is said: "Who will cure him now?". The dying person concludes that this is the time for departing. The leg joins the other leg." [Al-Qiyaamah: 26-29]
They place him in his shroud, his leg joins his other leg. Then he is carried upon the shoulders and taken to a dark hole...
If he was a transgressing criminal
He cries out:
"Woe to it! Where are you taking it?"
"The drive that day will be to your Lord" [Al-Qiyaamah: 30]
Then he is lowered into this ditch and dirt is thrown upon him until he is sealed in it. If he was a criminal, Allaah - The Most Perfect and The Most High - says:
"So he neither believed nor did he pray. Rather he belied and turned away." [Al-Qiyaamah: 31-32]
This transgressor will remain in his grave alone, there will be no-one to sit with him and no-one to keep him company. He will feel the heat of the fire, smell its foul odour, and be tortured therein. This man's grave will sqeeze in upon him so much so that the bones of his rib cage will cross each other. Despite all this punishment and all this torture and pain, he will hope that the hour will never be established. For this man knows that the hour is far worse and of he will be in greater loss on that Day.
The man hears 'As-Saakhah' from within his grave, and what is 'As-Saakhah'? It is the second blowing of the trumpet. This is when all that is in the graves shall be raised and ressurrected. So the criminal will cry:
"Woe to us, who has woken us from our resting place?"
It will be said:
"This is what the Ever-Merciful promised and the messengers where truthful."
The earth will be torn away from above him. This man will see the heavens being cleft assunder, the stars falling and being scattered, the oceans in their greatness bursting forth, burning, the graves will at that time bring forth their contents.
"Every person shall know what he has sent forth of good and bad deeds at that moment." [Al-Infitaar: 1-5]
Then he will raised up and driven to the crowding place: 'Al-Mahshar'...
If he was among the ones who obeyed their Lord in this world
When he is placed into his grave it is widened and made spacious for him. He smells the sweet fragrance of Al-jannah and feels some of its comforts. He sleeps in his grave like a bride on her wedding night who no-one shall awaken except her beloved. When the cry comes he is gathered to the crowding place and waits there for 50,000 years. This time passes as if it were the time between Zohar and Asr.
Then the Lord of the worlds comes to make judgement, so He calls His slave saying,
"Oh my slave, do you not remember that sin, do you not remember this sin."
So the slave replies,
"My Lord I have perished!"
So Allaah replies to him,
"I hid it in the world for you and this day I forgive it."
This good man is handed his book in his right hand. Due to his happiness he runs to the people and says
"Take it; read my book. Indeed I used to think I would meet my accounting."
"So he will be in a content life." [Al-Haaqah: 19-21]
from : A Party in Paradise and a Party in Hell
by Nabil Al 'Awadi
La ilaaha illa Allah ... Mohammed Rasoulu Allah
May Allah grant us good in both worlds and save us from the torment of the grave by His infinite Mercy...Ameen
