now we're going to look at uh some
emails which were sent in the first one
is from Miss
gesi she writes saying you know we've
been watching your programs for some
time now and we find it quite useful
we'd like you to answer a few questions
for
us the first one after death does one go
straight to heaven or
hell
well no
when a person dies they enter the state
of the
Barak or the state of the
Grave there the soul goes through a a a
Ser a journey this has been outlined in
in different books there's a book called
The Journey of the soul in English
available by Dr suib Hassan and uh you
can also find it described in great
detail in another book called The Myst
of the Soul by Abu Bal Al
Kennedy where the soul uh is when sold
is passed over by the angel of death to
the angels of the next life it's taken
up uh to the heavens uh the soul which
is good will be allowed entry in and
they will be it will be praised the soul
which is evil it will be cast back down
uh to reunite with the body or or the
body parts and uh then uh angels will
come to that individual in that state of
the grave and question them two angels
will come one by the name of mkar and
the other one called nakir and they ask
the question who is your lord what was
your religion and who was the person who
was sent to you the
messenger then uh one's deeds will be
shown
in the form of uh either a beautiful
smelling beautiful looking individual or
a
hideous uh nasty smelling stinky
individual will be these will be
personified and shown to us and we'll
question you know what is this who is
this and um oh I should also mentioned
that for the soul that was let into this
Heaven praise it
afterwards uh return back to the body or
the body parts right to the to maintain
its connection with the elements that
was its body and I say elements that was
its body as opposed to just saying to
the body because we know there are
people who are
burnt Hindus burn their bodies there are
people who uh allow the vultures to eat
the uh the the body uh for example like
the zor asrian they put the the dead up
on uh these like beds high beds and they
allow the birds to come and vultures to
come and devour the
person uh then you also have uh people
who die at sea and their body's cast
into the sea so some sharks come and eat
it up or whatever you know and a variety
of different ways that people may die so
uh where their body parts may be
scattered so we know that there is a
connection that remains with the body it
is maybe the body as a whole if it is in
one spot or the body parts wherever they
go the soul remains in contact how we
don't go into that this is what we know
so that what happens after that you know
there's a number of different uh
incidents the person was unable to
answer these questions in the grave and
of course uh it's not a matter that we
can say well okay I heard in this world
what the answer was so as long as I
remember it I memorize it I know what
the answer is I can say it then no the
person who was not a True
Believer who was a hipocrite who only
pretended to be a Muslim or called
himself a Muslim or herself a Muslim and
they really weren't Muslims they will
not be able to answer even though in
their minds they may know when they ask
who is your lord they know it's Allah
but they can't say it Allah will cause
them to only be able to say ah ah
they'll be stuck it won't come out of
their mouths
so uh they will experience this this is
part of the degradation the people who
have rejected belief in this life will
go through in that state of the Grave
prior to the resurrection now once we
step out of the time zone we're no
longer among the living we're in the
spirit world the world of the Barak of
course time does not affect us as it
affects us in this life so those people
who died 10,000 years ago or a million
years ago they are going through that
same process like in in a time frame the
same as everybody else so we're all
resurrected together it's not that some
people going to sit around in the grave
for or in the state of the Grave for M
you know thousands and thousands of
years no everybody goes through the same
process they're resurrected at the same
time and they're judged at the same
time but it is just not immediate you
don't go immediately Paradise into to or
to Hell uh there are some other points
which uh the person goes through you
know after uh it's clarified and and the
person's been it's becomes clear that
the person is in fact a disbeliever you
know great sinner Etc then the prophet
had said that a door from or window from
hell will open up and the hot wind
coming from the hell will will pass over
that person you know continually until
they're
resurrected and the one who was good is
Etc then a window from Paradise opens
and fragrant Pleasant uh air from
Paradise will pass over that person
until the time of Resurrection