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Some people die while smiling and talking? How it happens if there's really pain during death? Please explain

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Sutpor pain at death

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale Imraan verse 185:

185 Every soul shall have a taste of death: and only on the Day of Judgment shall you be paid your full recompense.

Allah Say sin the Holy Quran Chapter 32 Surah Sajdah verse 11:

11 Say: "The Angel of Death put in charge of you will (duly) take your souls: then shall ye be brought back to your Lord."

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 75 Surah Qiyaamah verses 26-30:

26 Nay, but when the life cometh up to the throat (at the time of one’s death)

27 And men say: ‘Where is the wizard (who can save him now)?’

28 And he knoweth that it is the parting (this world);

29 And agony is heaped on agony;

30 Unto thy Lord that day will be the driving.

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 50 Surah Qaaf verses 16-19:

16 It was We who created man and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein.

17 Behold two (Guardian Angels) appointed to learn (his doings) learn (and note them) one sitting on the right and one on the left.

18 Not a word does he utter but there is a sentinel (Angel) by him ready (to note it).

19 And the stupor (agony) of death will bring Truth (before his eyes): "This was the thing which thou wast trying to escape!"

Your Question: Some people die while smiling and talking? How it happens if there's really pain during death? Please explain

In light of the guidance of the Glorious Quran and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saws), there is just no defeating the intense agony and the unimaginable pain and stupor of death! No human being is excused from this experience of the stupor of death….not even the one whose obedience and whose worship of the Lord Most Majestic is not only exemplary, but superior to the obedience and the worship of all of mankind and Jinn put together….the self of the Last and Final Messenger of Allah, Mohamed ar-Rasool Allah (saws)!

Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 5.739 Narrated by Anas

(During the final hours) When the ailment of the Prophet (saws) got aggravated, he (saws) became unconscious, whereupon (his beloved daughter) Fatimah (r.a.) said, "Oh, how distressed my father is!" He (saws) said, "Your father will have no more distress after today!"

Respected sister in Islam, as much as one may have seen that some people meet their appointment of death while they were smiling, or talking, or dancing, or singing, or making merry…..we absolutely assure you in light of the guidance of the Quran and the Sunnah, that no human being is excused from the intense agony and the pain that each is Decreed to experience at the time when their souls are extracted from their worldly bodies! Only the one whose soul is extracted experiences that intense agony and the pain of the stupor of death…..one may have seen them smiling or even singing and dancing before ‘their’ souls were extracted, but when their souls are actually extracted from their earthly bodies, they and they alone experience that intense and inevitable agony that is decreed to accompany death. And Allah Alone Knows Best.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

Burhan