Islamic Scriptures and Important Texts

Quran: Death and Sleep

 Category: Islam
Written by Muhammad

And with Him are the keys of the secret things; none knoweth them but He; He knoweth whatever
is on the land and in the sea; and no leaf falleth but He knoweth it; neither is there a grain in the
darknesses of the earth, nor a thing green or sere, but it is noted in a distinct writing.

It is He who taketh your souls at night, and knoweth what ye have merited in the day: then he
awaketh you therein, that the set life-term may be fulfilled: then unto Him shall ye return; and
then shall he declare to you that which ye have wrought.

Supreme over his servants, He sendeth forth guardians who watch over you, until, when death
overtaketh any one of you, our messengers take his soul and fail not:

Then are they returned to Allah their Lord, the True. Is not judgment His? Swiftest He, of those
who take account!

[...]

Verily We have revealed the Book to thee in Truth, for (instructing) mankind. He, then, that
receives guidance benefits his own soul: but he that strays injures his own soul. Nor art thou set
over them to dispose of their affairs.

It is Allah that takes the souls (of men) at death; and those that die not (He takes) during their
sleep: those on whom He has passed the decree of death, He keeps back (from returning to
life), but the rest He sends (to their bodies) for a term appointed. Verily in this are Signs for
those who reflect.

What! Do they take for intercessors others besides Allah? Say: "Even if they have no power
whatever and no intelligence?"

Say: "To Allah belongs exclusively (the right to grant) intercession: to Him belongs the dominion
of the heavens and the earth: In the End, it is to Him that ye shall be brought back."

Excerpted from The Quran6:59-62; 39:41-44

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