1. It is a well-known truth that everyone has to taste death. Allah Ta’ala says in the Holy Quran:
“Every soul will have the taste of death”. (3:185)
2. The time of death is predetermined for everyone. Every single person’s age is fixed. It cannot maximize from its fixed time nor can it minimize. Nothing can save one from death. Wherever you are, death will find you out, even if you are in towers built up high. When the time of death comes, nothing can postpone it.
3. When a person’s life is ending,
Hazrat Izraeel (alaihis salaam) comes to extract the dying person’s soul.
4. The person dying looks to his left and right and sees Angels everywhere. The Angels of Mercy come to a Muslim and for the Kaafirs, the Angels of Consequence appear. At this time, even the Kaafirs believe the truth about Islam, but their faith at this time is not observed. This is because faith is the name of believing the Message of Allah Ta’ala and his beloved Messenger (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) without seeing proof. At this time one sees the Angels and then believes and this is therefore, not recognized as a Muslim.
5. A Muslim’s soul is taken out with relieve and is then taken with respect by the Angels of Mercy.
6. A Kaafir’s soul is taken out with great pain and the Angels of Consequence take it with disgrace.
7. After death, the soul does not go into another body and is then reborn, but it stays in the world of “Barzakh” till the Day of Judgement. “Barzakh” means the interval between death and resurrection.
8. To believe in reincarnation – that the soul goes into another human body, or into an animal’s body, or into trees or plants, etc. is wrong and is Kufr.