The Grave and Resurrection
221 questions
Does a person remember, after their death, the events of their worldly life, both good and bad, and does ill-treatment or the shortcomings of their children grieve them? And does the deceased remain asleep until the Day of Resurrection?
What happens when a believer's or disbeliever's grave is exhumed? Does that stop the torment or bliss of the grave? And what if a person was not buried at all, or if a disbeliever was buried with a Muslim?
What is the purpose of creating the universe and humankind, and is Allah in need of our worship? What is the meaning of developing the earth if everything will perish on the Day of Resurrection? And why is the punishment of disbelievers eternal despite the brevity of their worldly lives? Will those who did not receive the message of Islam be punished eternally, and how will those who never heard of the Prophet, peace be upon him, be questioned in the grave?
ما حكم من قال إن الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم حي، وهل تجوز الصلاة وراءه؟
What is the death agony? And how does the deceased know that the Angel of Death has come to him? And is it true that a disobedient believer is tormented on any day he dies, even Friday, and then the torment is lifted from him until the Day of Resurrection?
Do the souls of the deceased long for the living and ask about them, and does the soul of the deceased husband ask the soul arriving to them in heaven if his wife remarried after him?
ما هي الآيات الدالة على زيارة الميت لأهله؟
How can the grave be a garden from the gardens of Paradise or a pit from the pits of Hell, even though the body will decay and the soul will go wherever Allah wills?
Is what is stated in the message describing what the Quran does when a person dies — that a handsome man stands beside the deceased, enters between the shroud and the chest of the deceased, accompanies him when the two angels question him, and says, "I am the Quran that you used to recite" — authentic, or are these weak hadiths? And is the hadith mentioned therein, that the Quran will come on the Day of Resurrection as an intercessor for its companions, authentic?
Does a person's torment in the grave continue until the Day of Resurrection, and will they also be tormented in the Hereafter?
Are there any hadiths in Sahihayn that indicate the delights of the grave?
How can one deal with a married friend who insists on continuing an illicit relationship, which has negatively affected his family and social relations, and how can one intervene to rectify the situation, especially after the deterioration of the relationship with him?
How can one deal with parents who approve of their daughter committing sins, such as working without hijab, dating young men, and traveling with them, and who threaten to withhold money from their son if he tries to stop her or inform the grandparents?
To what extent is the hadith of Ka’b al-Ahbar sound, which mentions the descent of seventy thousand angels at the grave of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, at dawn and seventy thousand in the evening to pray upon him, and that the Prophet will emerge on the Day of Resurrection in the company of seventy thousand angels escorting him?
Does the Prophet's vision of Abraham and Ja'far in Paradise contradict his being the first to enter it on the Day of Resurrection?
Is the Prophet Muhammad, may God's prayers and peace be upon him, alive or dead, given that the prophets are alive, as mentioned in the incident of Al-Isra' and Al-Mi'raj?
Does the ruling on wrongfully taking a life apply to someone who killed a person that caused him to lose his livelihood and his children, believing that killing him was justified to preserve his family?
Will Jews and Christians be held accountable on the Day of Resurrection and in the grave, just like Muslims? And is allowing them to be buried next to Muslim graves a mockery of the religion?
What is the ruling on a wife's refusal to adorn herself and wear perfume, her refusal to leave the house, and her abstention from food, out of grief for the death of her brother, and what should the husband do about it?
How sound is the subject I read about the virtue of the Ummah of Muhammad, and what is the explanation of the phrases mentioned therein? And has the Ummah of Muhammad been honored with five distinctions: "that He created them weak so they would not be arrogant, and created them small in themselves so that the burden of food, drink, and clothing would be upon them, and made their lifespan short so their sins would be fewer, and made them poor so their reckoning in the Hereafter would be less, and made them the last of nations so their stay in the grave would be shorter"?
Do the dead speak to each other in the grave?
Is it permissible to recite the Quran for the deceased without ablution, and will the deceased be punished for that, and does Surah Tabarak save the deceased from the torment of the grave or only its reciter?
Is it permissible to publish the story "The Journey of the Soul in the World of Barzakh" by the visionary Asghar Bahmani, and if not, what is the reason for its prohibition?
What is the ruling on a man who commits adultery with a girl and her father refuses to marry her to him; should he marry her despite her father's refusal?