The Ruling on Hearing the Punishment of the Grave and an Explanation of the Layers of the Earth
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Question:
Peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Peace be upon you. May Allah make what we hear from it beneficial for us. His Excellency, and may Allah guide you. He asks, may Allah reward you. He says: A tape has circulated featuring one of the women, and at the end of this tape are the sounds of people being punished and screaming. So the point is that those sounds were recorded from the guardians of Tawfiq in the months of the earth, and they said with the sounds of people being punished in the grave. Is this true? And is there any evidence in the Shari'ah regarding the prohibition of listening to the people of the graves? Knowing that it was reported from Shaykh al-Islah Husayni ibn Iqam, may Allah have mercy on him, that Allah the Exalted reveals to some of His servants the punishment of His servants.
Answer:
[Al-Fatihah 1:1] The punishment of the grave is a reality, and the evidence for it has been transmitted by mass transmission, so it is established. The position of the people of the Sunnah and the community is to believe in the punishment of the grave, and that the grave is either a garden from the gardens of Paradise or a pit from the pits of the Fire. This is sufficient.
However, the punishment of the grave is among the matters of the Hereafter and among the matters of the unseen, which no one knows except Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). The deceased may be punished in his grave and we do not sense it, and even if we opened the grave for him, we would not sense it and would not see anything, because he is in a world and we are in another world. This punishment of the grave is among the matters of the Hereafter, which no one knows except Allah. But Allah may reveal it to some of the servants as a warning. And Allah revealed to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) some of the punishment of the grave in order to warn the people with it. It was reported from him (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: “If it were not that you bury one another, I would have asked Allah to let you hear of the punishment of the grave what I hear.” And he (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by two graves and said: “Indeed, they are being punished,”. So this is something that Allah revealed to His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and he mentioned it to the people so that they would take a lesson and remember.
As for what was mentioned in this tape about the Russians digging and reaching the bottom of the earth and hearing disturbing sounds, these are disbelievers, and we do not accept their news. We do not accept their news. But we do not deny the punishment of the grave; the punishment of the grave is a reality. However, we do not accept the news of these disbelievers. Also, it is not possible for disbelievers to reach the bottom of the earth. The earth has seven layers, like the layers of the heavens,[At-Talaq 65:12].
And you know what has come regarding the layers of the heavens, the heavens, concerning the distances between them and after their suns, each one of them, and the earth is like them,[At-Talaq 65:12], and it came in the hadith that Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 12:2048 indicates that the earths are seven, like the layers of the heavens, because Allah said [At-Talaq 65:12] So how can it be that the Russians or non-Russians reach the lower layer of the earth? This is something that is never true.
Peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Peace be upon you. May Allah make what we hear from it beneficial for us. His Excellency, and may Allah guide you. He asks, may Allah reward you. He says: A tape has circulated featuring one of the women, and at the end of this tape are the sounds of people being punished and screaming. So the point is that those sounds were recorded from the guardians of Tawfiq in the months of the earth, and they said with the sounds of people being punished in the grave. Is this true? And is there any evidence in the Shari'ah regarding the prohibition of listening to the people of the graves? Knowing that it was reported from Shaykh al-Islah Husayni ibn Iqam, may Allah have mercy on him, that Allah the Exalted reveals to some of His servants the punishment of His servants.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِHowever, the punishment of the grave is among the matters of the Hereafter and among the matters of the unseen, which no one knows except Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). The deceased may be punished in his grave and we do not sense it, and even if we opened the grave for him, we would not sense it and would not see anything, because he is in a world and we are in another world. This punishment of the grave is among the matters of the Hereafter, which no one knows except Allah. But Allah may reveal it to some of the servants as a warning. And Allah revealed to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) some of the punishment of the grave in order to warn the people with it. It was reported from him (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: “If it were not that you bury one another, I would have asked Allah to let you hear of the punishment of the grave what I hear.” And he (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by two graves and said: “Indeed, they are being punished,”
And they are not being punished for a small matter, but indeed it is a great matter. As for one of them, he used to walk around spreading backbiting, and as for the other, he used not to guard himself from his urine.
وما يعذبان في كبير، بلى إنه كبير، أما أحدهما فكان يمشي بالنميمة، وأما الآخر فكان لا يستدرئ من بولهAs for what was mentioned in this tape about the Russians digging and reaching the bottom of the earth and hearing disturbing sounds, these are disbelievers, and we do not accept their news. We do not accept their news. But we do not deny the punishment of the grave; the punishment of the grave is a reality. However, we do not accept the news of these disbelievers. Also, it is not possible for disbelievers to reach the bottom of the earth. The earth has seven layers, like the layers of the heavens,
It is Allah who has created seven heavens and of the earth, the like of them
اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ وَمِنَ الْأَرْضِ مِثْلَهُنَّAnd you know what has come regarding the layers of the heavens, the heavens, concerning the distances between them and after their suns, each one of them, and the earth is like them,
and of the earth, the like of them
وَمِنَ الْأَرْضِ مِثْلَهُنَّWhoever seizes a span of the earth without right, it will be wrapped around his neck on the Day of Resurrection from the seven earths.
من اغتصب شبرا من الأرض طوقه يوم القيامة من سبع أرضين،and of the earth, the like of them
وَمِنَ الْأَرْضِ مِثْلَهُنَّ
Source
سماع عذاب أهل القبور — alfawzan.live
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