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The Death of a Kafir

The Death of a Kafir

A Non-believer's Death

When the time of a disbeliever's or denier's death arrives, dark faced, deadly looking angels descend from the sky along with a coarse, rough cloth, and sit opposite to that person. Then, the angel of death draws out the spirit from his body like a thorny branch is wrapped in wet wool and is pulled from it.  When this spirit comes out, its stink is more repugnant than the stink of a dead animal. The angels starts rising holding that spirit. The other angels that they meet along the way ask who that wretched person was whose spirit they are carrying. The carrying angels mention the worst of the titles with which that person was called in the world, and say that he is so-and-so. When they reach the first heaven and ask for the gate to be opened, the gate is not opened and the Decree is issued to place the record of his deeds in the Sijjiyeen[1], where the records of the disobedient are kept. That spirit is then thrown back into the grave, where it reenters the body. The angels sit him down and ask the same questions that are asked from the believer's spirit. In reply to all of those questions, this person says:

ھاہ ھاہ لا ادری

"Alas, I know nothing!" The floor of the Hell and the clothers from the Hell are provided to that person, and a door is opened towards the Hell, through which he keeps receiving the heat and fire from the Hell. And his grave is made constricted upon him.

 

 

[1] The lower place where bad spirits live from death until the Judgment Day

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