Torment in the grave and the grave’s squeezing the corpse are true facts. He who denies them does not become a kâfir, but he becomes on ahl-i bid’at since he has denied the hadîths that are well known. [Such people deny the torment in the grave because they doubt that those hadîths are true ones. If they accepted them as hadîths, they would believe it. For this reason, they do not become disbelievers, but they stray from the Ahl-i sunnat. But, he who says, “I do not believe in the torment in the grave, whether it is written in hadîths or not. Mind and experiments do not confirm it,” becomes a kâfîr. People who deny it in this manner today become disbelievers.] Since the grave is a pass between this world and the next torment in the grave is transient like worldly torment but resembles the torment in the next world. That is, in one respect, it is like worldly torment, while in another respect, it is like torment in the next world. The torment in the grave will be mostly done to those who fouled their clothes while urinating and to those who spread gossip among Muslims while they are in the world. Two angels named Munkar and Nakîr will ask questions in the grave. It is difficult to answer their questions. [‘Munkar and Nakîr’ means ‘(something) whose nature is not known’.
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