The grave

When the inward parts are set right, the grave sins are forgiven.

And one whose house is the grave — how should he be glad at what he builds in the abode of this world?

Since happiness is the lost thing the human species goes seeking, and man is worthy of pursuing it so that his life shall not be squandered away between care and grief, delusion and fancies, sicknesses and pains, expansion and constriction, hardship and ease, poverty and wealth, honour and abasement — all of which, the moment he enters his grave, becomes a tale of what once was — it is a duty upon …

So the best of you is he who takes of this and of that and joins the two matters together, his service of the spirit prevailing, so that he becomes alive in his life, in his grave, in his raising and in his gathering, and is threaded into the file of the spiritual ones and merged into the company of those brought near before a Sovereign beautiful and all-powerful.

Let no man brought low be pleased with the fineness of his attire — and does the excellence of a shroud gratify one buried?

So we believe in the questioning of Munkar and Nakīr in the grave, and that in the grave there is bliss or torment for the body and the spirit together, even though the living among us does not apprehend that by his senses, the life of the grave being among the things God has veiled from some of His creatures — and this contrary to the Muʻtazilah, who say that all of it is spiritual and not bodily.