Grave Punishment Before Judgment Day? | Mufti Abu Layth

your take on grave punishment before judgment day do you have a clip on it on grave punishment um so shukran much love wake for the super chat um i'm not sure if i have a clip on punishment of the grave i can't remember to be honest i've spoken so much i have definitely spoken on it in the past look punishment of the grave there's different ways to people read the quran they have the corpus of the islamic tradition and people

understand different things certain people they look at the quran and they say that right or they look at the whole corpus the whole tradition and they say there is going to be punishment in the grave they say that there is a stage between this life and the next life and it is a a kind of purgatory purgatory-like stage and this is called the grave realm even though it's not really in the grave but it so if you dig up the grave they're not there there but it's it's like a venn diagram between this realm and the next realm and the thing you have in the middle the the overlap of the venn that's the kind

of barzachar realm so in this realm is going to be punishments and pleasures and all of these things so there are many i would say possibly uh today even the majority i could say this i don't know without carrying out the exact research but let's say you could say the majority of the people believe this there have been other ulama that have also looked in islam they have looked at this and said well you know when you look at the quran it does not seem to suggest because the quran when you look at it it shows that people when they die they seem to be in the quran this allah is saying they

arise from from the dead saying oh were we asleep how long were we asleep wasn't it just half a day or was it just a moment or they seem to have no sense of time as though they couldn't tell what was happening so some people say well you know there's no such thing mentioned in the quran categorically of the punishment of the grave so maybe there isn't a punishment there isn't this but what it is is that maybe that experience that you're going through in those moments it may be shaded by a kind of dark experience or an enlightened experience based on

what is yet to come so it's like a a trailer kind of or a premonition exposure to the con the continuum of life so that's some way that people look at this um other people may say well no some verses in the quran hint two words there is a punishment fine some people say it probably doesn't some muslim philosophers may argue that no it's kind of just all consciousness once you go on it doesn't look people will believe many things it's not

i would say that these all of these beliefs are taken from islam they are taken from the quran and the tradition if you follow one that's fine if you follow the different one to me that's fine if you follow the other one that's fine if you follow another one that's fine it doesn't really to be honest i'll stop short of saying i haven't experienced death but not in the traditional sense so people nobody that has completely experienced categorical death

comes back to talk of it so in that sense this is all in the elm of allah that's what it is only allah knows i would say concern yourself with this world concern yourself with your life don't you don't need to worry about the qualitative texture of what will the other dimension feel like because you won't understand it anyway what would you understand about another life you couldn't understand it it's not from this realm so how do you understand another realm that you cannot

imagine think see smell so it's yeah but by all means if you already in whichever whatever you believe and you want to read up more on it feel free to do so i hope that helps yeah yeah exactly i mean who's been to the grave and has come back for certain but i wouldn't i wouldn't look what i wouldn't do i'll just add a little footnote to that don't make this a thing don't kind of you know people make these into

um inquisitions what do you believe will exactly happen when you die okay you are a kafir you are on the borders of islam you are a muslim but you're not a sunni muslim you are look don't make this a thing okay just have your faith try to be a good human being have love for allah have love for the quran have love for the prophet sallallahu alaihi and spread that love amongst humanity you know don't try to oh do you believe

the ribs will exactly penetrate into each other do you believe that there will be scorpions in the grave oh you don't believe they'll be scoping them okay well this guy but he does believe the ribs will say okay he can still be a muslim but he can't be a proper muslim and that person can't be this kind of a muslim he should be a kafir completely and that guy might as well just be jewish or he might as well just be you know don't do this it is insulting to islam okay just remember any if you preoccupy yourself with these things just remember that you will be

heading to that grave at some point this life is not don't you know if you try to to make yourself the gatekeeper of god's dominion of of what only allah has dominion over then you know that's it's a pity that's all i can say