Gardens of the Righteous — Page 90
90. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS 156. They will turn one to another asking questions. They will say: Before this among our people we were apprehensive: but Allah has been gracious unto us, and has saved us from the torment of the burning blast. We used to pray to Him aforetime. Surely, He is the Beneficent, the. Ever Merciful (52. 26-29). 399. Ibn Mas'ud relates that the Holy Prophet said: Everyone of you gets ready for his birth in the womb of his mother in the condition of a spermdrop for forty days and then as a clot for forty days and then as a lump of flesh for forty days and then an angel is sent who breathes the soul into it and is commanded to record four things about it: its provision, its term of life, its conduct and whether it will be unfortunate or fortunate. Then by Him beside. Whom there is none worthy of worship one of you behaves like the dwellers of. Paradise till there is left between him and it but the space of a hand and then that which is recorded overtakes him and he begins to behave like the denizens of the Fire and eventually enters it. On the other hand, one of you behaves like the denizens of the Fire till there is left between him and it only the space of a hand then what is recorded overtakes him and he begins to behave like the dwellers of Paradise and eventually enters it (Bokhari and Muslim). 400. Ibn Mas'ud relates that the Holy Prophet said: On the Day of. Judgment hell will be brought and it will have seventy thousand bridles, each bridle being pulled by seventy thousand angels (Muslim). 401. Nu'man ibn Bashir relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say that the least tormented of the denizens of the Fire will be a person who will have two brands of fire under his feet whereby his brain will be on the boil. He will imagine himself the worst tormented person and yet he will be the least tormented of them (Bokhari and Muslim). 402. Samurah ibn Jundub relates that the Holy Prophet said: Some will be caught in the Fire up to their ankles, some up to their knees, some up to their waists and some up to their necks (Muslim). 403. Ibn Umar relates that the Holy Prophet said: Mankind will face the. Lord of the worlds while some of them will be sunk in their perspiration up to the middle of their ears (Bokhari and Muslim). 404. Anas relates: The Holy Prophet delivered an address to us the like of which I had never heard from him before, in the course of which he said: If you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much. Thereupon those present covered their faces and fell to sobbing (Bokhari and Muslim). . Another version is: Some tidings reached the Holy Prophet concerning his companions upon which he addressed them and said: Paradise and the Fire were presented to my view, so that I have never seen the like of this day in good and in evil. If you were to know what I know you would laugh little and weep much. His companions then passed through an experience of suffering