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THE DEATHS OF DISBELIEVERS AND BELIEVERS WILL NOT BE THE SAME

Who could do greater wrong than someone who
invents lies against God or denies His Signs, or who

says, 'It has been revealed to me,' when nothing has
been revealed to him, or someone who says, 'I will
send down the same as God has sent down'? If you
could only see the wrongdoers in the throes of death
when the angels are stretching out their hands,
saying, 'Disgorge your own selves! Today you will
be repaid with the punishment of humiliation for
saying something other than the truth about God,
and being arrogant about His Signs.' (Surat al-
An'am: 93)
Do not let their wealth and their children impress
you. Through them, God merely wants to punish
them during their life in the world, and for them to

expire while they are disbelievers. (Surat at-Tawba:
85)
In accordance with this secret revealed in the Qur'an, a
disbeliever may seem to have peacefully died in his bed. It
may seem to the people around as if he had by no means
gone through any pain or suffering in the course of death, but
that his eyes had just closed. However, God informs us that a
disbeliever feels a deep agony. How angels take disbelievers
in death is explained in the Qur'an as follows:
How will it be when the angels take them in death,

beating their faces and their backs? That is because
they followed what angers God and hated what is
pleasing to Him. So He made their actions come to
nothing. (Surah Muhammad: 27-28)