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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Agonies of Death and the Difference in the Departure of the Soul Between the Believer and the Disbeliever

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The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh. It was narrated from after the incident that he said: If a group is mentioned from the gate of separation and we are scattered, they said, then they said this covers that.

The Shaykh:
The agonies and severity of death occur for both the disbeliever and the believer. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) suffered from the agonies of death, may Allah praise him, and he said:
Indeed, death has agoniesإن للموت مسكرات
He suffered. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), in the context of death, would place his shirt over his face; if he became distressed by it, he would remove it, and he would sprinkle water on his face, saying:
Indeed, death has agoniesإن للموت سكرات
So these are the things from which the one who is dying suffers. However, the extraction of the soul from the body differs between the disbeliever and the believer. For the believer, the soul departs easily and is called out gently.
As for the soul of the disbeliever, and may Allah protect us from that, it is pulled out with force.
(1) By those [angels] who extract with violence (2) And [by] those who remove with easeوَالنَّازِعَاتِ غَرْقًا وَالنَّاشِطَاتِ نَشْطًا
[An-Nazi'at 79:1-2]
. He said: "And the angels who pull out with drowning"—this is the pulling out of the disbeliever. "And the angels who pull out with ease"—this is the pulling out of the soul of the believer with speed and lightness. It comes out of his mouth like a drop from the mouth of a water skin.
"O reassured soul, (28) Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],يَا أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ارْجِعِي إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً
[Al-Fajr 89:27-28]
. So the extraction of the soul differs between the disbeliever and the believer. As for the suffering of the agonies of death, all of creation shares in this. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 10 من 36 /شرح العقيدة الواسطية (شرح قديم)/كل شيء هالك إلا وجهه/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:03:23)

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