While everyone has to go what keeps me worrying is what must be happening to her in her Grave??
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As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa
Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)
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Assalamualykum
Brother
My
Dearest and Noblest Mother Passed Away this 15th of Ramadan. While everyone has
to go what keeps me worrying is what must be happening to her in her Grave?? Is
anything special meted out to those Muslims who die in Ramadan. Kindly answer
so as to let me live in peace.
JazakAllah
Also
request you to ask all the Memebers in this Noble Group to Pray for Magfirah
for my Mother.
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Answer:
Die in Ramadan
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 145:
145 Nor can a soul die except by Allah's leave; the term being fixed as
by writing (as Decreed and Pre-Ordained by Allah).
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 1.315 Narrated by Anas bin Malik
The Prophet (saws) said, "At every womb
Allah appoints an Angel who says, 'O Lord! A drop of semen, O Lord! A clot. O
Lord! A little lump of flesh." Then
if Allah wishes (to complete) its creation, the Angel asks, “(O Lord!) Will it
be a male or female? how much will its
provision be? what will be its (exact) age ? and whether it will
be wretched or blessed? ' So all that is written while the child is still in
the mother's womb."
Man has absolutely nothing to do with the determination of
one’s time of death; the exact time and place where one will meet with one’s
appointment of death is Decreed and Determined by Allah Subhanah, the Lord of
the Worlds. In light of the clear
guidance of the Glorious Quran, how and when one dies has absolutely nothing to
do with how one is treated in one’s life in the Hereafter!
Allah Subhanah has clearly, time and time again, Declared
in His Glorious Quran that the things that will determine whether one deserves
Allah’s Mercy and Forgiveness and thus Paradise, or one deserves His Wrath and
Anger and thus Hell Fire, is entirely dependant on the two things which each individual
chooses to do of his own ‘free will’:
- one’s
belief
- one’s
deeds
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 7 Surah
Aaraaf verses 40-42:
40 To those who reject Our Signs and treat them with arrogance no
opening will there be of the Gates of Heaven, nor will they enter the Garden
until the camel can pass through the eye of the needle! (ie. impossible!!):
such is Our reward for those in sin.
41 For them there is Hell as a couch (below), and folds and folds of
covering (of the same) above: such is Our requital of those who do wrong.
42 But those who believe and do righteous good deeds, no
burden do We place on any soul but that which it can bear, they will be
companions of the Garden; therein to dwell (for ever).
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 47 Surah
Muhammad verse 12:
12 Verily Allah will admit those who believe and do righteous
good deeds to Gardens beneath which rivers flow; while those who reject
Allah will enjoy (this world) and eat as cattle eat; and the Fire will be their
abode (in the Hereafter).
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 4 Surah
Nisaa verse 57:
57 But those who believe and do righteous good deeds, We
shall soon admit to Gardens with rivers flowing beneath, their eternal home:
therein shall they have companions pure and holy: We shall admit them to shades,
cool and ever deepening.
In light of the guidance of the Glorious Quran, it is an
absolutely baseless, unfounded, and false belief that every person that dies in
the Holy Month of Ramadan will not be held accountable for his deeds, or that
all his sins will be forgiven, or that he will go directly to
Your Statement: Also
request you to ask all the Memebers in this Noble Group to Pray for Magfirah
for my Mother.
We supplicate our Lord Most Merciful for your mother in
the very words through which the Messenger of Allah (saws) would supplicate the
Lord for a deceased believer:
May Allah, the Most Merciful of all those who show mercy,
forgive the deceased, bestow His Mercy upon her, give her peace and absolve her
from all her shortcomings and all her sins. May Allah receive her with honor,
and make her grave spacious; wash her with water and snow and hail; cleanse her
from faults as one wouldst cleanse a white garment from impurity. May the Lord Most Gracious requite her with
an Abode more excellent than her abode of this short and transient world, and
with a family better than her family she left behind. May The Lord Most
Bounteous admit her to the Garden, and protect her from the torment of the
grave and the torment of the Fire.
Ameen.
Beloved brother in Islam, may Allah Subhanah bestow His
Mercy and His Peace upon you and the bereaved family of the deceased, and
bestow upon you the patience to accept and submit wholeheartedly to the Decrees
and ‘Qadr’ of the Lord Most Exalted, Most High.
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
Wister