بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم
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The book began giving us so much hope, because it began with telling us the cure, which is very easy. Then it teaches us that sins are a disease, and have many side-effects. There are no good effects that come out of committing sins. Any problem you have in life is due to your sins. Many times when we have a problem, we think about people, but we need to repent to Allah, because we do not know what sins we are committing.
Sins have a consequence and an effect in the Dunya, so that we will repent from them. If a person does not repent from them, he will be punished for them in the Hereafter.
A Great Hadith on the Punishment of Sins
From the Punishments of Sins: What Bukhari رحمه الله narrated in his Saheeh from the Hadith of Samurah bin Jundub, who said: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) very often used to ask his companions, "Did anyone of you see a dream?" So dreams would be narrated to him by those whom Allah wished to tell. One morning the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Last night two persons came to me (in a dream) and woke me up and said to me, 'Proceed!' I set out with them and we came across a man lying down, and behold, another man was standing over his head, holding a big rock. Behold, he was throwing the rock at the man's head, injuring it. The rock rolled away and the thrower followed it and took it back. By the time he reached the man, his head returned to the normal state. The thrower then did the same as he had done before. I said to my two companions, 'Subhan Allah! Who are these two persons?' They said, 'Proceed!'
So we proceeded and came to a man lying flat on his back and another man standing over his head with an iron hook, and behold, he would put the hook in one side of the man's mouth and tear off that side of his face to the back (of the neck) and similarly tear his nose from front to back and his eye from front to back. Then he turned to the other side of the man's face and did just as he had done with the other side. He hardly completed this side when the other side returned to its normal state. Then he returned to it to repeat what he had done before. I said to my two companions, 'Subhan Allah! Who are these two persons?' They said to me, 'Proceed!'
So we proceeded and came across something like a Tannur (a kind of baking oven, a pit usually clay-lined for baking bread)." I think the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "In that oven there was much noise and voices." The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "We looked into it and found naked men and women, and behold, a flame of fire was reaching to them from underneath, and when it reached them, they cried loudly. I asked them, 'Who are these?' They said to me, 'Proceed!'
And so we proceeded and came across a river." I think he said, ".... red like blood." The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "And behold, in the river there was a man swimming, and on the bank there was a man who had collected many stones. Behold, while the other man was swimming, he went near him. The former opened his mouth and the latter (on the bank) threw a stone into his mouth whereupon he went swimming again. He returned and every time the performance was repeated. I asked my two companions, 'Who are these (two) persons?' They replied, 'Proceed! Proceed!'
And we proceeded till we came to a man with a repulsive appearance, the most repulsive appearance, you ever saw a man having! Beside him there was a fire and he was kindling it and running around it. I asked my companions, 'Who is this (man)?' They said to me, 'Proceed! Proceed!'
So we proceeded till we reached a garden of deep green dense vegetation, having all sorts of spring colors. In the midst of the garden there was a very tall man and I could hardly see his head because of his great height, and around him there were children in such a large number as I have never seen. I said to my companions, 'Who is this?' They replied, 'Proceed! Proceed!'
So we proceeded till we came to a majestic huge garden, greater and better than I have ever seen! My two companions said to me, 'Go up' and I went up. The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "So we ascended till we reached a city built of gold and silver bricks and we went to its gate and asked (the gatekeeper) to open the gate, and it was opened and we entered the city and found in it, men with one side of their bodies as handsome as the handsomest person you have ever seen, and the other side as ugly as the ugliest person you have ever seen. My two companions ordered those men to throw themselves into the river. Behold, there was a river flowing across (the city), and its water was like milk in whiteness. Those men went and threw themselves in it and then returned to us after the ugliness (of their bodies) had disappeared and they became in the best shape." The Prophet (ﷺ) further added, "My two companions (angels) said to me, 'This place is the Eden Paradise, and that is your place.'
I raised up my sight, and behold, there I saw a palace like a white cloud! My two companions said to me, 'That (palace) is your place.' I said to them, 'May Allah bless you both! Let me enter it.' They replied, 'As for now, you will not enter it, but you shall enter it (one day). I said to them, 'I have seen many wonders tonight. What does all that mean which I have seen?'
They replied, 'We will inform you:
As Allah said regarding the Prophet ﷺ in Surah An-Najm [53:18]:
"Indeed he (Muhammad ﷺ) did see, of the Greatest Signs, of his Lord (Allah)."
And this is out of Allah's Support with His Messenger ﷺ.
This requires so much patience, because they did not tell him the answers until the end. Allah said in Surah Al-Anbiya [21:37]:
"Man is created of haste, I will show you My Ayat (torments, proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.).So ask Me not to hasten (them)."
You cannot explain everything that happens in your life; you will know the answer in the future. Imagine when you go to Paradise, what mysteries will be revealed to you. In your life just accept what Allah decreed for you, you do not need to know the wisdom right away.
-> As for the first man you came upon whose head was being injured with the rock, he is the symbol of the one who studies the Qur'an and then neither recites it nor acts on its orders, and sleeps, neglecting the enjoined prayers.
This man knows and takes the Qur'an but refuses it and sleeps through the obligatory prayers. He takes the Qur'an without accepting it and applying it in his life. Do not underestimate this sin; the consequence will be seen after you die.
Allah nurtured them in this life and showed them the effects of their sin but they did not accept, so their
punishment is not unfair. All the evil consequences of a sin while a person is alive is good, so they can repent, and be saved from this punishment.
-> As for the man you came upon whose sides of mouth, nostrils and eyes were torn off from front to back, he is the symbol of the man who goes out of his house in the morning and tells so many lies that it spreads all over the world.
This person would broadcast lies;- fabricated Hadiths, rumours, untrue jokes, etc. We understand this nowadays because we have devices where lies can spread around the world.
-> And those naked men and women whom you saw in a construction resembling an oven, they are the adulterers and the adulteresses.
-> And the man whom you saw swimming in the river and given a stone to swallow, is the eater of usury (Riba).
All the punishments are suitable to the sins the people commit.
-> And the bad looking man whom you saw near the fire kindling it and going round it, is Malik, the gatekeeper of Hell.
Malik is an Angel, but he is very ugly. Allah mentioned him in the Qur'an, in Surah Zukhruf [43:77]:
"And they will cry: "O Malik (Keeper of Hell)! Let your Lord make an end of us." He will say: "Verily you shall abide forever."
And the tall man whom you saw in the garden, is Abraham and the children around him are those children who die with Al-Fitra (the Islamic Faith). The narrator added: Some Muslims asked the Prophet, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! What about the children of pagans?" The Prophet (ﷺ) replied, "And also the children of pagans."
The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "My two companions added, 'The men you saw half handsome and half ugly were those persons who had mixed an act that was good with another that was bad, but Allah forgave them.'" [Bukhari #7047]
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