Page 118 - The Day of Judgment

TRUE LIFE BEGINS WITH

DEATH

here is a difference between what the believers, who
spend their lives abiding by the morality of the Qur'an
T and obeying Allah's commands, receive in return for
their obedience, and what the unbelievers, who spend their lives
chasing their desires, forgetting Allah and the Day of Judgment,
receive in return for their rejection. This difference makes itself
known at the moment of death. Whereas the angels take the lives of
believers nicely, they take the unbelievers' lives in a most agonizing
manner. The angels greet the believers and give them the good
tidings of Paradise and gently draw out their souls. All believers
come face to face with the gateway to the eternal life (death), having
prepared for it throughout their lives, knowing its inevitability.
On the other hand, the unbelievers meet death with
overwhelming pangs of regret, having tried to evade it all their
lives, having known its existence and yet still having ignored its
reality. The Guards of Hell reach out for them, striking their faces
and their backs, plucking out their souls harshly, which causes
much pain, and then send them to a humiliating and burning
punishment. It is revealed in one verse as:

If only you could see when the angels take back those who did