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A worrying thought then came to my mind. I asked Saleh:
“By the way, how did you come to know about it? Does everyone
know about it as well?”
“No, no... Abu-Bakr is very kind-hearted; he did not say a word. As
for me, I know about it as God sent a message to him regarding it
through me. Anyway, your statement is correct. Guess, what was the
message that the Almighty asked me to take to Abu-Bakr?”
He answered his own question without waiting for my reply:
“Look after my servant. In his humility, he is about to neglect his
responsibility.”
I bowed my head with mixed feelings of embarrassment and
gratitude.
After a few moments, I inquired from Saleh:
“How is the accountability process going on in the Plane of
Judgement?”
“The evidence against nations of various prophets is being
presented. All prophets and messengers are testifying that they had
passed the message of God to their respective nations. After that, the
sins of all those people whose deeds were largely in accordance with
the teachings of the prophets are forgiven and their success is
announced”. Saleh replied.
I recalled everything. Saleh had told me earlier that after the initial
period of accountability, general accountability would begin. I had a
faint hope that perhaps at that stage a decision for the salvation of my
son Jamshaid may be announced. However, obviously I could not do
anything for him.
I inquired from Saleh:
“What is the state of people over there?”
“Don’t ask! No one is able to comfort anyone. Furthermore, no one
knows what is going to be his fate.”
We were walking behind the entourage, talking, when suddenly we
heard a loud noise. The reason for it was that a huge crowd of Muslims
was heading towards the Prophet
PBUH
On seeing this, the Prophet, peace be upon him, called the leader of
the angels. He asked him for the reason this treatment was being meted
out to those people, despite the fact that they claimed to be his
followers, ascribed their faith to him, and mentioned his name in their
proclamation of faith.
chanting his name. They were
screaming, crying, and begging the Prophet to help them, saying that
they were his followers. However, the angels were beating them with
lashes to keep them away. They had become so fed up due to the
hardships in the Plane of Judgement that despite being beaten up, they
were still trying to move towards the Prophet. The Prophet appeared to
them as the only ray of hope.
The angel answered with utmost respect, “O Prophet of God, no
doubt they take your name, but you are not aware of all sorts of
innovations, alterations, and changes that these people had introduced
in your religion after you had left the world.”
On hearing this, an expression of extreme dislike appeared on the
face of the Prophet and he said:
“May those people be distanced from me who distorted my religion
after I had left!”
Saying this, the Prophet
PBUH
I was also about to move forward but Saleh stopped me by saying:
turned towards the pond of Kauthar
and walked away, with the rest of the people in the convoy following
suit.
“Wait and see what happens here.”
I saw that the angels then started to attack these people
heartlessly. In the meantime, more angels joined them from the left of
the Plane of Judgement. They started to beat them mercilessly. Their
strength was such that when they lashed out once with a whip,
thousands of people were hit by it and were thrown yards away, crying
and screaming. In a short while, the entire area close to the pond was
cleared of such people. Beaten up and crying in pain, they, who had
invented new beliefs and actions in the religion of Islam, left that place,
moaning and groaning on their humiliation and ill-fate.
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