Do the lightning bolts that strike and kill people make the one they kill a martyr?
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The questioner : Some people, when it rains and a lightning bolt strikes and burns them...
The Shaykh : The questioner asks: If a lightning bolt strikes a person and burns him, because it is a great electrical energy that burns him in an instant, is this of the same kind as dying by the burning of fire, and does he become one of the martyrs? We say: Yes, he is one of the martyrs, and it may be that Allah willed good for him in that he died in this state, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : The questioner asks: If a lightning bolt strikes a person and burns him, because it is a great electrical energy that burns him in an instant, is this of the same kind as dying by the burning of fire, and does he become one of the martyrs? We say: Yes, he is one of the martyrs, and it may be that Allah willed good for him in that he died in this state, if Allah wills.