If a Muslim who sins dies, is his soul taken by the angels of mercy or
the angels of wrath? Please note that he prays, but he commits some
sins such aslooking at haraam things or listening to music.
May Allah reward you withgood.
Praise be to Allaah.
Firstly:
The majority of texts that speak of this matter dividepeople into two
categories:
1. Believers. The angels of mercy take their souls and lift them
up to heavenwith great care, coming with glad tidings, calling them by
the most loved oftheir names, so they feel joy, blessing and happiness
which makes them steadfast.
2. Disbelievers and hypocrites. The angels of wrath take their
souls, coming with harshness and warnings, and the gates of heaven are
closedin their faces, so they are thrown in the earth to face woe and
punishmentsas recompense for what they did in this world of
wrongdoing, disbelief and enmity.
Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, mentioned that in the Holy
Qur'aan, where He says (interpretation of the meaning):
"By those (angels) who pull out (the souls of the disbelievers and the
wicked) with great violence.
2. By those (angels) who gently take out (the souls of the believers).
3. And by those that swim along (i.e. angels or planets in their orbits)"
[al-Naazi'aat 79:1-3].
Al-Haafiz ibn Katheer (mayAllah have mercy on him) said:
Ibn Mas'ood, Ibn 'Abbaas, Masrooq, Sa'eed ibn Jubayr, Abu Saalih,
Abu'l-Duha and al-Suddi said: "By those who pull out" refers to the
angels, i.e., when they pull out the souls of the sons of Adam. There
are some whose soul is taken forcefully andthey suffer when it is
taken out, and there are some whose soul is taken gently, which is
referred toin the verse, "and those who gently take out." Thiswas
stated by Ibn 'Abbaas.
It was also narrated from Ibn 'Abbaas that al-naazi'aat refers to the
souls of the disbelievers, which are taken out, then plunged into the
Fire. This was narrated by Ibn Abi Haatim. End quote.
Tafseer al-Qur'aan al-Kareem, 8/312
Secondly:
There is fear for the Muslim who commits sin or is an evildoer -- and
what is meant is the one who persists in committing major sins or
transgresses against people and dies in that state. To which of the
two groups mentioned above does he belong? Is his soultaken by the
angels of mercy and treated in the same manner as the believers, or is
it taken by the angels of wrath and treated in the same manner as the
disbelievers?
This is a matter of the unseen and we have not found any text that
clearlyand definitively states the situation of the one who commits
major sins.
But there are some references that may indicate that the angels of
wrath take the souls of those who commit major sins. For example:
1.
The hadeeth about the man who killed one hundred people, then he
repented to Allah, may He be glorified and exalted. When he died, the
angels of mercy and the angels ofwrath disputed as to which of them
would takehis soul and take it up to heaven. The story was narrated by
Abu Sa'eed al-Khudri from the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be
upon him):
The angels of mercy and the angels of torment disputed over him. The
angels of mercy said: he came repenting and turning wholeheartedly
towards Allaah. The angelsof torment said: He never did anything good.
Then an angel in the form of a man came to them and they appointed him
(to decide) between them. He said: Measure the distance between the
two lands, and whichever is closer, that is where he belongs. So they
measured it and they found that he was closer to the land that he was
heading for, so the angels of mercy took him."
Narrated by al-Bukhaari (3740) and Muslim (2766).
Think about how the angels of wrath wanted totake the soul of this
sinnerwho had killed one hundred people. Were it not for the sincerity
of his repentance, his soul wouldhave fallen to the share of the
angels of wrath. So there is the fear for all of those who commit
major sins that the angels of wrath may take their soulsif they do not
repent to Allah, may He be glorified and exalted.
2.
There are many hadeeths which describe how the angels come to take the
soul of the one who is dying and take it up to thehighest heavens;
these hadeeths compare and contrast the situation of the believers and
that of the disbelievers. In some of these hadeeths it says al-faajir
(evildoer) instead of al-kaafir (disbeliever). And in some of them it
describes him as al-rajul al-su' (the bad man). This may also indicate
that the one who commits major sins is in great danger in this regard.
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