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Believing in the Hereafter with Certainty 31

This fact is stated in the Qur'an as follows:
Those the angels take in a virtuous state. They
say, 'Peace be upon you! Enter the Garden for
what you did.' (Surat an-Nahl: 32)
The greatest terror will not upset them and
the angels will welcome them: 'This is your
Day, the one that you were promised.' (Surat
al-Anbiya': 103)
In the case of a man who has not lived his life in
accordance with Allah's approval, no matter how his body dies,
what his soul experiences will be the beginning of a life full of
torment. Allah warns these people in the Qur'an:
How will it be when the angels take them in
death, beating their faces and their backs?
(Surah Muhammad: 27)

For these reasons, trying to visualise the moment of death
in your mind's eye will cause you to behave with one hundred
percent sincerity and conscientiousness.
Death may come to you while driving, or doing something
that you do routinely. Suddenly the sight in front of you will
change and you will meet two angels of death. Angels of death
may assume a horrifying appearance to those who have not
lived their lives in accordance with Allah's good pleasure and
ignored death and the hereafter. In the Qur'an, it is told that
they stretch out their hands to the person whose life they have
come to take away, pull him close to themselves and declare to
him a degrading, endless torment, while beating his face and
back. Separation of the soul from the body causes great pain.
At that point, the man realises what is to happen next. This
moment is described in Surat al-Qiyama:
Faces that Day will be glowering, realising that