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Placed into an unwelcoming grave, his journey will now start.<br />
He is ab<strong>and</strong>oned; alone; as kith <strong>and</strong> kin helplessly depart.<br />
<strong>The</strong> grave for him is not just a gloomy hole, that will not bring benefit,<br />
but on the contrary it is a place of untold horrors <strong>and</strong> anguish acting as<br />
a stepping-stone between the disobedience of All\h <strong>and</strong> eternal<br />
damnation in becoming a denizen of <strong>Hell</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> same people who were there for him, to help him <strong>and</strong> defend him<br />
in the world, upon being rendered helpless return home in tears after<br />
the burial, where soon after forgetting about the deceased, they start to<br />
fight <strong>and</strong> argue about who inherits what of the estate in such a way as if<br />
it was hoped that the deceased would die.<br />
Far off in the darkness of the grave, two figures appear,<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir sight alone is horrendous, yet still they draw ever near.<br />
In various narrations, the mention of two angels appears. <strong>The</strong> name of<br />
one is Munkar, <strong>and</strong> the other is Nak|r (both are derived from the<br />
infinitive ‘nakar’ meaning to be harsh, <strong>and</strong> to be disliked, which will be<br />
true here). <strong>The</strong>y are sent to the deceased to question him about his<br />
Lord, his religion <strong>and</strong> his prophet.<br />
al-Bukh\r| <strong>and</strong> Muslim. Names mentioned in at-Tirmidh| <strong>and</strong> Ibn *ibb\n<br />
With hammers behind them, <strong>and</strong> breaths of fire, they do not care,<br />
<strong>The</strong> vicious eyes knifing through darkness, do more than merely scare.<br />
‘Leave me alone! Leave me be!’ <strong>The</strong> soul cries, but to no avail.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y pay no heed to his cries towering over him they prevail.<br />
Without any other purpose they close in on the soul to dem<strong>and</strong> the<br />
answers to the three questions. <strong>The</strong>re is no such thing as a second<br />
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