What is the reason why for the eyes of the dead person being open at the time of death? Does the eyes of the dead person being open or closed indicate anything?
- Does the fact that the eyes of the deceased are open or closed indicate anything or serve as a sign?
- Why do some people writhe a lot while giving their last breath?
- In some, this state does not occur. Does the opening or closing of the eyes indicate anything? We can even observe this in animals.
Dear Brother / Sister,
When a person dies, it is sunnah for the people who are there to close the eyes of the dead person. According to what is reported from Umm Salama, when the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) came to Abu Salama when he died, his eyes were fixedly open. He closed them with his hands and said:
“When the soul is taken away the sight follows it. (Therefore, the eyes of the dead person remain open.)”
Thereupon, some of the people of Abu Salama’s family wept and wailed. The Prophet (pbuh) said to them,
“Do not supplicate for yourselves anything but good, for angels say "Amin" to what you say.” He then said:
“O Allah! Forgive Abu Salama! Raise his degree among those who are rightly guided, grant him a successor in his descendants who remain. Forgive us and him, O Lord of the Universe, and make his grave spacious, and grant him light in it.” (Muslim, Janaiz, 4)
Therefore, when a person dies, his eyes are open. We cannot decree based on the open eyes that a person went to the hereafter in a good or bad way.
Questions on Islam
- Abu Salama (r.a.)
- Umm Salama (r.anha)
- Husayn (r.a.)
- When the people to whom women can display their beauty are listed, their slaves are also listed. How should we understand it?
- What can be done as charity, prayer and favor for a dead person? What supplications and chapters along with the chapter of Yasin should be read to decrease a dead person’s penalty in the grave?
- What can be done as charity, prayer and favor for a dead person? What supplications and chapters along with the chapter of Yasin should be read to decrease a dead person’s penalty in the grave?
- Could you explain the Quranic verse Verily We shall give life to the dead, and We record that which they send before and that which they leave behind, and of all things have We taken account in a clear Book (of evidence). (Ya Seen, 36:12)
- How will the grave punishment of the dead people whose corpses are not found be? Does the soul suffer the punishment of grave?
- Is the claim that the Companion Sa’d b. Muadh had some bad characteristics true?
- Will you give information about Hz. Danyal (Daniel)?
