[47] Surah Muhammad: Ayat 027-028

২৭. ফেরেশতা যখন তাদের মুখমন্ডল ও পৃষ্ঠদেশে আঘাত করতে করতে প্রাণ হরণ করবে, তখন তাদের অবস্থা কেমন হবে?  

২৮. এটা এজন্যে যে, তারা সেই বিষয়ের অনুসরণ করে, যা আল্লাহর অসন্তোষ সৃষ্টি করে এবং আল্লাহর সন্তুষ্টিকে অপছন্দ করে। ফলে তিনি তাদের কর্মসমূহ ব্যর্থ করে দেন। 

Ayat 27. Then how (will it be) when the angels will take their souls (of disbelievers) at death, smiting their faces and their backs?

Ayat 28. That is because they followed that which angered Allah, and hated that which pleased Him. So He made their deeds fruitless.

Tafseer of Surah Muhammad  Peace be upon him] Ayat 27. But how (will it be) when the angels take their souls at death, and smite their faces and their backs? It is all very well for them to practice hypocrisy in this life. How will they feel at death, when they find that the angels know all, and touch the very pots they had taken such care to conceal? Their faces and their backs: there is a subtle metaphor. The face is what looks to the front, the side you present to the outer world; the back is what is not shown, what is hidden from the world. The hypocrites will be hit at both points. Or, the face is what they boast of, what they are proud of; the back is the skeleton in the cupboard, the things they dare not utter, but which yet haunt them. The hypocrites are hit on ever} 7 side. Cf. 8:50. Ayat 28. This because they followed that which called forth the Wrath of Allah, and they hated Allah’s good pleasure; so He made their deeds of no effect. 

Hazrat Abu Said Al-Khudri (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: Messenger of Allah  [SAWW](PBUH) said, "When a dead body is placed on a bier and men carry it on their shoulders, if the deceased was pious, it (the corpse) will say: `Take me in haste'; but if he was not, it will say (to its bearers): `Woe to it. Where are you taking it?' Everything except man hears its voice. Had a human being heard its voice, he would have surely died".  [Al-Bukhari, Book 02, Chapter 23, Hadith # 400] 

Lesson: as mentioned above in Surah Muhammad  Peace be upon him] Ayat 27. Then how (will it be) when the angels will take their souls (of disbelievers) at death, smiting their faces and their backs?” The speech of a dead is a matter of the realm of the Unseen (or Al-Ghaib) which is mentioned in this Hadith. A deceased person will certainly say what has been disclosed here. A Muslim must have absolute faith in it. Almighty Allah is certainly capable of endowing the power of speech on a deceased person as he does speak with the angels (Munkar and Nakir) when they come to the dead in the grave and question him. This Hadith is intended to induce people to virtues so that after death, one has not to say: "Woe to me! Where are you taking me?” One should spend the life in such a manner that after death when he is taken to the graveyard for burial, he should be in a position to say: "Hasten to take me to my grave so that I can enjoy Divine blessings there".