1. It is a well-known reality that everyone has to taste death. Allah Ta’ala
says in the Holy Quran: “Every soul shall have the taste of death”. (3:185)
2. The time of death is fixed for everyone. Every
single person’s age is fixed. It cannot increase from its fixed time nor can it
decrease. Nothing can save one from death. Wherever you are, death will find
you out, even if you are in towers built up high. When the time of death comes,
nothing can delay it.
3. When a person’s life is ending, Hazrat Izraeel
(alaihis salaam) comes to extract the dying person’s soul.
4. The person dying looks to his left and right and
sees Angels everywhere. The Angels of Mercy come to a Muslim and for the
Kaafirs, the Angels of Punishment appear. At this time, even the Kaafirs
believe the truth about Islam, but their faith at this time is not counted.
This is because faith is the name of believing the Message of Allah Ta’ala and
his beloved Messenger (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) without seeing proof. At
this time one sees the Angels and then believes and this is therefore, not
accepted as a Muslim.
5. A Muslim’s soul is taken out with ease and is
then taken with respect by the Angels of Mercy.
6. A Kaafir’s soul is taken out with great pain and
the Angels of Punishment take it with disgrace.
7. After death, the soul does not go into another
body and is then reborn, but it stays in the world of “Barzakh” till
the Day of Judgement. “Barzakh” means the interval between death and
resurrection.
8. To believe in reincarnation – that the soul goes
into another human body, or into an animal’s body, or into trees or plants,
etc. is wrong and is Kufr.
