A sahîh hadîth-i-sherîf is quoted: “A person who drinks wine will be brought to the place of mahsher (gathering for judgment) with his wine-container of fire hanging down his neck and his wineglass in his hand, and he himself exuding the foulest odour of the earth and being damned by all the earth’s contents.” People who lost their lives as a result of torment are brought to the place of mahsher in the state of torment that they were subjected to. It is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf that is sahîh: “People who are killed and who attain martyrdom as they struggle in the way of Allah will rise and come to the place of mahsher with their wounds still bleeding. Blood in colour, and yet like musk will it smell. They will remain in that state until they are gathered for the Hudhûr-i-Mawlâ.” At that time angels dispatch them in groups and crowds. Each one of them comes to the place of mahsher, mounted as they are on the people who tormented them in the world. Human beings, genies, devils, ferocious animals, and birds are gathered at a place. At that time the earth is flat and white like silver. Angels have made a circle around all the living creatures on the earth. Their number is more than ten times that of the occupants of the earth. Thereafter Allâhu ta’âlâ orders the angels of the second layer of heaven to make a circle around the angels of the first layer of heaven and around the other creatures. Their number is more than twenty times that of the whole lot. Thereafter angels of the third layer of heaven descend, and they make a circle around the entirety of the others. And the number of these newcomers is more than thirty times that of the sum of the others. Thereafter angels of the fourth layer of heaven circle the entire crowd already existent. Their number is more than forty times that of the whole crowd. Thereafter angels of the fifth heaven descend and surround them. They are more numerous than fifty times the sum of the former ones. Thereafter angels of the sixth heaven descend and mke a circle around the others. Their number is more than sixty times the number of all the rest. Finally, angels of the seventh heaven descend and make a circle around all, and their number is more than seventy times the number of all the beings that they surround. People are in utter confusion during that time. So tightly packed is the entire crowd that they step on one another’s feet. All people are immersed in their own perspiration, its amount depending on the amount of their sinfulness. All of them have become soaked in their own perspiration, which reaches ears with some of them, necks with some, chests with some, shoulders with some, and knees with others; it is as if they were in a steam bath. And there are some people whose perspiration is no more than that of a thirsty person who has just drunk some water. People called Ashâb-i-rayy are possessors of minbar. People called Ashâb-i-rishh are those who perspire (at the place of mahsher). People called Ashâb-i-qa’beyn, [i.e. those who perspire up to their ankle bones,] are people who were drowned in water. Angels say to them, “There is no fear or grief for you now.” I have been informed by some (spiritually mature people called) ’ârifûn that the Ashâb-i-qa’beyn are also called Awwâbûn and that Fudayl bin ’Iyâd ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’, (d. 187 [803 A.D.] Mekka,) and other people like him are among the Ashâb-iqa’beyn. For, our blessed Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “A person who makes tawba for his sin(s) is like one who has never committed sins.” This hadîth-i-sherîf is (one of the group of hadîth-i-sherîfs called) mutlaq. That is, it is not dependent upon a condition. These three classes of people, (i.e. the Ashâb-i-rayy and the Ashâb-i-rishh and the Ashâb-i-qa’beyn,) are the groups of people with white faces, as is purported in the hundred and sixth âyat-i-kerîma of Âl-i-’Imrân Sûra: “On that Day when some faces will be (lit up with) white, and some faces will be (in the gloom of) black: ...” The faces of people other than these three groups are black (on that day). How could anguish and perspiration be helped, with the sun so close to people’s heads. In fact, it feels as if you would touch it if you held out your hand. to be followed
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