القَبرُ

THE GRAVE

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2– The Prophet (SAWA), when he passed by a grave wherein someone had been buried the day before, and the person's family was crying over the grave, said, ‘Two simple units of prayer that you deem insignificant are dearer to the person in this grave than the whole of your world.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 225]

3– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The first
[experience of the] justice of the Hereafter is the grave, it does not differentiate between the base-born and the noble.’
[Mustadrak al-Wasa`il, v. 2, p. 475, no. 2502]

4– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘I have never seen a scene more horrid than the grave.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 1, p. 284]

5– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Live near the graves and you will take a lesson.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4800]

6– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The grave speaks every day. It says: I am the house of loneliness, I am the house of gloom, I am the house of worms, I am the grave, I am a garden of the gardens of Heaven, or a hole from among the holes of Hell.’
[al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 242, no. 2]

7– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said at a graveside, ‘Verily the thing
[i.e. life] whose end is this
[grave] deserves to be spent in asceticism, and verily the thing
[i.e. the Hereafter] which begins with this
[grave] deserves to be feared.’
[Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 343, no. 1]

8– The Prophet (SAWA), with regards to Allah’s verse in the Qur’an:“Allah fortifies those who have faith with an immutable word in the life of this world and in the Hereafter”, said, ‘In the grave when the dead are interrogated’.
[ Bihar al-Anwar, v. 6, p. 228, no. 29]

9– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘A dead person will be questioned about five things: his prayer, his alms-tax (zakat), his obligatory pilgrimage (Hajj), his fasting, and his acceptance of our divine guardianship (wilaya), the ahl al-bayt. Our guardianship will address the other four from inside the grave, ‘Any deficiency that is in you, I will fill.’
[al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 241, no. 15]

10– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘A person will not be questioned in their grave unless they have total pureness of faith or total disbelief.’
[al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 236, no. 4]

11– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘O servants of Allah! That which comes after death for those who have not been forgiven is worse than death itself and it is the grave. So, be warned of its tightness, its hardship, its darkness and its loneliness ….. And the hard life that Allah has warned His enemies about is the punishment of the grave.’
[Amali al-Tusi, p. 28, no. 31]

12– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘If you were to see what the dead from among you have seen, you would become grieved, and you would be frightened, and you would listen and obey. However, what they have seen is veiled from you, and the veil will soon be lifted!’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 20]

13– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘Whoever’s bowings in his prayer
[ruku`a] are perfect will not experience fright in their grave.’
[Thawab al-A`amal, p. 55 no. 1]