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Death and After Death

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How long does it take Azrail to remove a person’s soul?

Will there be a trace / sign on the forehead of a person who will remain in Hell for a while and will go to Paradise after that?

What are the evidences that make remaining in Hell forever certain?

Is Saddam Husayn a martyr? How should we view the execution of Saddam?

Is it true that a person who utters kalima at-tawhid (La ilaha illallah) 70.000 times goes to Paradise directly even if he has no other deeds?

Why are the sins that are left to the hereafter given very severe penalties?

Is there salvation from hell? How should we understand verse 65 of the chapter of al-Furqan?

Is mourning permissible in Islam?

How should we answer those who allege that Paradise and Hell are not eternal, and that after a while (God forbid), Allah will feel bored and destroy Paradise and Hell?

Is there anyone who ever traveled back and forth between this world and the Hereafter?

Does a person go directly to Paradise if his thawabs outweigh his sins when deeds are weighed in the Gathering Place?

Will everybody know in the hereafter the sins that only Allah knows and that are committed secretly?

How is the death of believers, do they suffer; How does their death differ from that of unbelievers?

How can it be justice for unbelievers to remain in Hell eternally? Why should torture in Hell be eternal? Why did Allah create Hell though His compassion is more than that of a mother?

Is it permissible to wish death, to want to die and to pray for death?

How will life be in the realm of barzakh? Will people not feel bored waiting for such a long time?

Will we be called to account in the hereafter due to the sins that are few?

Will the majority be in Hell? This is understood from the verses of the Quran and hadiths...

Will the Quran be read in Paradise? What will Paradise be like?

Who are the people of A'raf (Purgatory) that will know the People of Paradise and Hell by their faces mentioned in verse 46 of the chapter of al-A'raf?

Will the language of Paradise be Arabic? Will Arabic be spoken in the hereafter? If so, is there a verse or hadith indicating this?

What language will we speak in the hereafter? How will those who do not know Arabic speak in Paradise?

Is it appropriate to pour water on the grave? How does our religion view this practice?

What are the benefits of visiting graves? Do the dead people see those who come to their graves?

Will the people whose thawabs will overweigh their sins in the hereafter go to Paradise directly?

Is it a sin to cry loudly after a relative who died at home or next to his grave? Does this give pains to the dead person?

Does martyrdom eliminate major sins as kaffarah (atonement)?