what happens to a Muslim soul for 40 days after death?

Question

is it true that the Muslim soul roams back to his/her dwelling place/home for 40 days?
Is there any Hadith(Hadis) about this aspect? or is it just a belief?
Salaam

Answer 1

No..it was nothing like that at all. I think you've heard it wrong..what I've heard and read is,after you're dead,your soul taken up to meet with God. There God will decide where is your place,Hell or Heaven. After that..your soul will make a pit stop at your house,looking at how people taking care of your dead body,the sadness of your family. You will remain there till your dead body are buried,and in your grave you get what you deserve based on your deeds. Your grave(more accurately the place for your soul) can be a blessful Garden or tormenting Hell. This is the realm of the spirits..where no soul can escape nor can they return to their family or the world. Here..any bad souls will lament over their misfortune and ask God permission to return once again to the world so they can be a better person. But God says No..and there's a wall that they cannot break(separate them from the world of the living). Something like that.. :)

Answer 2

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Barzakh - It is situated between 'dunya' (physical world) and 'akhirah' (Hereafter), where all the souls of mankind are separated from their bodies and remain there till Judgement Day. Muslims believe that during this transition, the soul can face a hard time or a pleasurable one. It depends on the kinds of deeds you have done in this world. One of the things that the soul will go through is a questioning session. The angels will come and ask : 1. Who is thy Lord and Sustainer? 2. Who is thy Prophet? 3. What is thy religion? 4. What is thy Book? 5. Where is thy Qibla (direction of prayer)? 6. Who are thy Imams? If the soul has been a good Muslim he/she will be able to answer these questions without a problem. I know they seem like easy questions but in a world like barzakh, we believe only our good deeds & strong iman (faith) can help us. And just roughly about Judgement Day we believe that all the souls will be resurrected and God will balance out your good deeds to your bad deeds (your book of deeds). This is getting lengthy, so if you'd like to know more details everything is in the Quran.

Answer 3

There are two contradictory stories that you will hear. One says that when a Muslim dies fighting aginst infidels they will go straight to Paradise and get the virgins etc. the other says that when you die you go to a holding facility to await the Day of Judgement (which could be millions of years in the future). On Judgement Day God will reconstruct everyone from all the atoms that were once in their bodies and then make a judgement about whether you go to paradise or downstairs to hell. Major problem with the latter story is that lots of atoms are recycled through the food chain and so it would be impossible to reconstruct everyone as the atoms have been used over and over again by different people and animals through the ages.

Answer 4

Nothing happens to any Soul, Muslim or otherwise, after death. No one really knows what is the Soul and if it really exists. All the Religions have their own theories and fairy tales about this, but, there is not a single, solitary soul that has ever returned to tell us about this.



It is not true that the soul of any one, Muslim or otherwise, returns as a ghost or gets tortured in the grave or anything else. When you die, you die, period.



All of that fantasy is merely blind belief.



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Answer 5

40 days after death of a Muslim, Angeles of God take his soul to place known as BARZAKH. It is located somewhere on 2nd to 6th skies. I don't remember exactly on his sky where BSARZAKH is located.

Answer 6

Wa alaykum salam Really a Muslim soul for 40days after death and buried will live in barzah The soul will be questioned by angels and the soul will have grave rewards or grave punishment according to his/her good deeds or bad deeds during his/her living on this earth If the soul has much bad deeds it will be tortured which is called "grave punishment" based on hadith The punishment will be stopped temporary if someone put the fresh leaves on the grave based on hadith when Muhammad pbuh visited the graveyards and he heard the crying inside the grave

Answer 7

Who knows? But god and angels

this is religious stuff, i was born in a pakistani american muslim family

I really have no idea about this stuff

Answer 8

If you are trying to meet the ghosts of your dead ancestors in the place where they dwelled and talk to them--you are committing shirk!



Don't talk to your dead ancestors, only talk and answer to Allah! Talking to your dead ancestors means you give them powers that are associated with Allah and it is shirk.



If you are not trying to meet ghosts, then disregard this.

Answer 9

Nothing. They like everyone else just go back into the earth.

Answer 10

Nothing.It will be cared by Allah.

Answer 11

LIFE AFTER DEATH



"We have ordained death among you, and We are not to be overcome, so that We may change your state and make you grow into what you know not." (The Holy Quran 56:60-61)





"O soul who is at rest, return to thy Lord, well-pleased (with Him), well-pleasing (Him). So enter among My servants, and enter My garden." (89:27-30)





"It (hell) is the fire kindled by Allah which rises over the hearts." (104:5-6)





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48. What does Islam teach about life after death?



It teaches that a human being not only has a body, but also has a 'spirit' given to him or her by God. The spirit is the seed from which a higher form of life grows within man, higher than physical life, just as the body has developed from a small 'seed'. Just as in the world around us higher forms of life evolve from lower ones, similarly from the life of the individual in this world is evolved his higher 'spiritual' life. During his life, man's deeds shape and mould his spirit, for better or worse, according to his deeds. When a person dies, the physical body is finished, but the spirit remains, as he or she had moulded it by their deeds when alive. That is the life after death.



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49. How is the spirit shaped during our life here?



Just as our physical actions and habits affect the body and leave their impressions upon it, so does the good or evil of our deeds affect the spirit and leave an impression upon it. Sometimes we can even feel something of the effect of a good or bad deed upon us. If we nourish the spirit through prayer to God and, with the strength we get from this, do good and righteous deeds, the spirit will develop and grow properly. But if the spirit is neglected, and bad deeds are done, it suffers harm. It is as if God has given each person a piece of soft clay. It is then up to the individual to shape it into something beautiful or ugly by his deeds.



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50. Is man rewarded after death for his good deeds and punished for the bad ones?



As has been said above, good deeds benefit the spirit and evil deeds harm it. This effect upon the spirit is what constitutes the reward or punishment for one's deeds. In this life we can occasionally feel this effect, but only very faintly and vaguely. After death, when only the spirit is left, bearing all the impressions of deeds done throughout life, the effects of those deeds will be felt clearly and vividly. It is this which is the reward for good deeds and suffering for evil deeds.



One reason we know the Christian system is false is that it is unjust. For murderous Nazis (like Hitler) to be rewarded for eternity simply for accepting the bloody human sacrifice of a man to "wash away their sins," before they finally died, while the peope he murdered, who had harmed nobody, but had rejected that man, spend an eternity in a Hell is clearly unjust.



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51. What are heaven and hell?



Heaven and hell are not actual places somewhere in the universe, but really our inner conditions or the condition of the spirit resulting from our deeds. Heaven and hell begin in this life within a person's heart. The feelings of bliss and contentment at doing good is the heaven in one's heart. And the guilt, shame and greed felt by an evil doer is the hell of the heart. After death, the heaven or hell that developed in the heart is unfolded before us and becomes the world in which we live, and we live in it not with the physical body of this life but the 'spiritual' body made from our deeds.