The Pleasures of the Grave for the Believer
[‘Al-Qabr: ‘Athābuhu wa Na’īmuhu (pp.
22-24) by Shaykh Muḥammad al-
Waṣṣābī]
Translated and
Summarised by Abū Ruqayyah ‘Abd aṣ-Ṣamad
1. Width
2. Comfort
3. The grave
of the believer is lit like the full moon
in the night
4. The
opening of a door to Jannah
5. The
opening of a window to Jannah
6. The
believers’s clothes in the grave
7. His
righteous companions (i.e. his good deeds that are presented to him)
8. The
believer’s firmness at the time of questioning
9. The
believer’s request to the angels to be allowed
to pray
10. The
believer’s request to be returned to his family to give them glad tidings
11. The
believer’s supplication to his Lord asking
for the Hour to be established
12. The
believer’s love for wanting to meet his Lord when he comes near
13. The
believer’s happiness to meet Him and being spoken to
14. The
believer’s soul is wrapped in a shroud and protected by the angels in Jannah
15. The
believer’s soul is raised up to the seventh heaven
16. The
believer’s soul is mentioned in Jannah by the names most beloved to him
17. The
believer’s soul emanating the most beautiful
perfume from his/her scent
18. Allāh’s statement to the angels to write
the believer in ‘Illyīn’
19. The believer’s
statement of the shahādah
in the grave
20. The believer is shown his place in Jannah every day and night
21. The believer’s being a green garden
22. The angels place the soul of the believer in white silk
23. The believer, in the grave, is in a state of relaxation
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Abū Hurayrah mentioned:
The Messenger of Allāh (ṣal Allāhu ‘alayhi wa as-sallam) used to seek refuge [in Allāh] from the punishment of
the grave.
[Reported by Muslim in his Ṣaḥīḥ (no. 585)]
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