The ruling on looking at the conditions of the dead after their death

Question:
This person is asking, may Allah protect you. He says: A discussion is going around among some of the young men about those who corrupted the land. They say, “Look, this is one of them after he was killed, and he is smiling. This one’s face is white after his death. This one’s body did not change after his death,” and so on. How should one respond to such talk?

Answer:
We say that the criterion is their deeds, not their faces. The criterion is not their faces, but rather their deeds: are their deeds good or evil? No one says their deeds are good; rather, they are evil deeds. So we look at their deeds, and we judge them by their deeds and their words. As for the fact that their faces are such and such, Allah knows best. Matters of the Hereafter and matters of the barzakh (the interval between death and resurrection), Allah knows best. Yes.