5. Its connection to the body during the Day on which bodies will be: 2) Tonnent and Pleasure in the Grave

resurrected. It is the most inclusive connection between the body and the soul, and it cannot be compared to the aforementioned kinds of connection, for it is a kind of connection with which the body cannot be dead, asleep or decayed

The opinion of the Salaf (early Muslim scholars) and scholars of the Muslim nation is that when someone dies, he is either in torment or pleasure which is experienced by both his body and his soul. They agree that the soul of the deceased feels pleasure or suffers torment after being separated from the body. The soul is sometimes joined to the body and feels the pleasure or suffers the torment. The Adherents of the Sunnah and Muslim Community agree that the soul feels pleasure or suffers torment while it is separated from the body and also feels pleasure or suffers torment while it is joined with the body. Thus, the soul and the body may feel the pleasure or the torment together; and the soul may feel either of them while it is separated from the body. However, can the body feel the pleasure or suffer the torment without being joined with the soul? There are two different opinions, concerning this issue, adopted by the people of HadUh and Sunnah, and the people of Scholastic Theology. Proofs of Tonnent and Pleasure in the Grave from Qur~an: 1Allah, Exalted be He, says: <~nd if you could but see when the wrongdoers are in the overwhelming pangs of death while the angels extend their hands, [saying], <Discharge your souls! Today you will be awarded the punishment of [extreme] humiliation for what you used to say against Allah other than the truth and [that] you were, toward His verses, being arrogant.' " (Quran: AI-An 'am: 93) The people addressed in the verse cited above are the unjust people on their deathbed. In the same verse, the angels, who are truthful, tell us that those unjust people are to suffer the punishment of extreme humiliation and were this torment delayed until the end of this world, then it would not be said to them ".•• Today you will be awarded•.•" (Quran: AI-An'am: 93). Thus, the torment referred to in the verse is the torment in the grave. The above b.adith and those related b.adiths, which bear the same meanings, verify a number of points: 1. The questioning happens when the dead person is placed in his grave, which refutes the views of the innovators like AbUl-Hudhayl and Al­ Mirdsl, who have said that the questioning happens at the time between the two blows 17. 2. Calling the two angels 'Munkar' and 'Naldr' is a reply to those Mu'tazilah (Mutazilites) who claim that it is impermissible to call them so. They (Mu'tazilah) mistakenly interpret their names in the b.adiths by saying that 'Munkai means the dead persons hesitation in answering back while 'Naldr' refers to the angels' scolding of the dead person. 3. The dead persons soulis returned to him in his grave atthe time ofhis questiorung, where he sits and is interrogated. This is a response to Abu Muhammad Ibn Hazm who denies that the deceased persons soul is returned to him in his grave. But ifhe means to deny that the returning ofsouls in the graves is different from the normal life ofthis world, this will be true. The returning ofthe dead person's soul in his grave differs from its returning in this life, although it may be more comprehensive in some respect, just as the creation of man in the Hereafter is different from that in this world, though it is more comprehensive. Every place, whether in this life, the Barzakh or the Resurrection, has its special conditions. That is why the Prophet (PBUH) has said that the grave ofthe deceased person is widened for him, that he is questioned and so on. Thus, even if dust does not change, souls are returned to and withdrawn from the bodies ofthe dead. The soul is attached to the body in several ways, which are illustrated below. The Connections between the Soul and the Body The soul is connected to the body through five different kinds ofconnections, each of which has its own ruling: 1. Its connection to the body in the mother's womb as a fetus