BELIEF IN WHAT HAPPENS IN THE GRAVE

• WE believe in the Trial of the Grave, which is the questioning of the dead person in his grave about his Lord, his religion and about his Prophet. There “Allah confirms those who believe with the confirm say, in the present life and the Hereafter.” (14:27) The believer will say: “Allah is my Lord, Islam is my religion and Muhammad, peace be upon him, is my Prophet.” The unbeliever or the hypocrite will say: “I don’t know, I heard the people saying something and I said it.”
• We believe in the comfort of the grave for the believers. “Those who lives the angels take in state of purity, saying ‘peace be on you; enter Paradise for what you were doing.” (16:32)
• We believe in punishment of the grave for the transgressing unbelievers: “If you could only see when the evildoers are in the agonies of death and the angels are stretching out their hands, saying, ‘Give up your souls! Today you shall be rewarded with the punishment of humiliation for what you used to say untruly about Allah, and for scornfully rejecting His signs.” (6:93) The sayings of the Prophet are numerous and well known in this area. A Muslim must believe in all that is reported in the Quran and the Prophetic traditions concerning the unseen matters. He should not contradict by his worldly experience because the affairs of the Hereafter cannot be measured by the affairs of his life. The difference between them is very great. Allah is the source of help.