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Your Beliefs 102 We also believe that the dead are moved to the afterlife. There are many hadiths from the messengers confirming the punishment in the grave for the opposers, the transgressors, and many blessings for the believers and the builders of good deeds. And we believe in that kind of thing, we do not need to go into detail about its nature, because the intellect is able to know its nature and reality, because it is as mysterious as heaven and hell, it is not in the realm that we can see. The intellectual capacity can be measured by comparison [estimating, concluding, and judging by what is known to be similar and by measurement [stated in the visible realm only). Likewise, the situation in the grave is a mystery that the senses cannot comprehend. And if the senses could have known, then the belief in mysteries would be of no use, and the doctrine of obligations would not have existed, and at that time mankind would no longer be buried. The Messenger said: "If you do not bury your dead, I will ask Allah to make you hear what we have heard of the torment in the grave." (Muslim: 2868, Nazi: 2058). Since this instinct was not related to animals, they heard and could feel the punishment in the grave.
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• Their lives. Of course, it is their turn to come, nothing has changed. Allah says: "So when their destiny comes, they cannot procrastinate, not even for a second." (Bible reading: 7:34)
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