nevitable ll Beye ea Life ere 1 at | " ea te Muhammad Mustafa al-Jibaly at se Pa oe aoe Al-Kitaab & as-Sunnah Publishingesl Ml pall — Cagis oll GLI THE INEVITABLE JOURNEY ~ PART IV All a LSI LIFE IN AL-BARZAKH BY a pore MUHAMMAD AL-JIBALI aur, pusii cof ted AL-KITAB & AS-SUNNAH PUBLISHINGTABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS v PRELUDE ix Introduction 20... 6. eee eee eee ix Our Da'‘wah and Objectives... 0.2... eee eee eee x General Approach in This Work ... 0.0... 0. cece ee eee xv Translating and Transliterating Arabic .................- Xvi Translating and Referencing Qur'an and Hadith .......... xviii Notable Utterances ... 00.06. ccc ee eee eee xix PREFACE xxi Al-Barzakh 160... xxi This Book + Xxi References 0.0.0... cece xxii Acknowledgements ........-. 60.00 cece eee eee eee xxiii CHAPTER 1 THE APPROACH OF DEATH | Loving to Meet Aah 26... eee eee 1 Allah Hesitates to Take a Believer's Soul ...........- 2 Satan's Presence at the Time of Death .............. 3 The Disbeliever's Wish to Return to Life 3 Agonies of Death 22.0... 2... e eee eee eee 4 Too Late for the Disbelievers to Declare Faith 4 wn The First Step into the Hereafter ...............-.0-00. CHAPTER 2 TEXTS DESCRIBING AL-BARZAKH 7 1. Al-Bara’s Hadith ..... 2. Aba Hurayrah’s First Hadith . Aishah’s Hadith .........0 0.00000 .0005. : 4. Abii Hurayrah’s Second Hadith ...........0 0.00 2000- 17 5. Abi Hurayrah’s Third Hadith ........-. 00.0.0 00 0000s 18 v