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FITNA OF THE GRAVE
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How Will It Be?
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We often hear of the Trials in the grave and how important the grave is in terms of our progression to Jannah in Al Akhirah, but how important really is the grave?
Uthmaan رضي الله عنه used to pass by graves and weep and the people enquired ‘Ya Uthmaan why is it when Al Akhirah (Jannah, Jahannam) is mentioned you do not weep, but when you remember the graves you weep?’ He رضي الله عنه replied ‘The grave is the first stage in Al Akhirah, if it is easy then the rest of the stages will be easy, if it is difficult and tormenting then the rest of the stages will be the same’
The grave is where our Soul is tested.
Everyone will answer and what they answer depends solely on what they did in their lives.
A man who didn’t worship Allah ﷻ nor did he practice Islam, how could he say My Rabb is Allah ﷻ and My Deen is Islam?
A man who strove to please his Nafs and his desires and became a slave to them, how can he say his lord was Allah ﷻ?
A man who didn’t strive to commit to the Sunnah of Prophet ﷺ and who didn’t make an effort to know him and love him as he should be, how will he say the man sent amongst us was Muhammad ﷺ?
We shall only be rewarded for what we strove for!
If we strove for Allah ﷻ, then with Allah ﷻ is our reward.
If we strove for worldly gain, then our reward is in that gain we made in the Dunya.
As Prophet ﷺ said in one narration ‘Every Deed is according to its intention, and every man shall get what he intended’
[Sahih al-Bukhari 54, Sahih Muslim 1907]
We may think that the beating from Munkar and Nakir and the squeezing of the grave is something we can comprehend and match to an experience in this Dunya, think again!
This is Al Akhirah, you cannot comprehend anything here! Don’t take this issue lightly, because Every Soul shall taste death.
The only way to avoid these things is to submit to Allah ﷻ and follow Islam as it should be followed.
For the believer a window looking into Jannah will be opened and he will lie in bliss knowing what awaits him next.
The disbeliever will be shown his eternal abode in the Hellfire and he will be disgraced.
In which category do you want yourself to be in?
May Allah ﷻ guide us and save us all.