Hadith 43

Tafseer Imam (Hassan Al-Askari-asws) – ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘‘There is none from a servant nor from a maid who gave allegiance to Amir-Al-Momineen-asws in the apparent, and broke it in the hidden, and stood upon being hypocritical to him-asws – except that when the Angel of death comes to capture his soul – Iblees-la and his-la assistants are resembled for him. And the Fires and the types of its Punishments are resembles for his sight, and his heart, and his seat from its narrowness. And there are resembled for him as well, the Gardens and its houses therein – had he remained upon his Eman and been loyal with his allegiance. So, the Angel of death is saying to him, ‘Look! Those are the Gardens which cannot be measured, the extent if its extensiveness, and its joys and its pleasures, except by Allah-azwj, Lord-azwj of the worlds. These had been prepared for you, if only you had remained upon the Wilayah of the brother-asws Muhammad-saww, Rasool-saww of Allah-azwj, your destination would have been to it on the day of Decisive Judgment. But you broke (the allegiance) and opposed, therefore those Fires and the verities of its Punishments, and the its Zabaniyya (Angels of Hell), and their hammers, and its open-mouthed serpents, and its scorpions with their pointed tails, and its predators their long tentacles, and the rest of the types of its Punishments, it for you and to it is your destination. So, during that he would be saying, Alas! If only I had grabbed hold of the way along with (leading to) the Rasool [25: 27], by accepting whatever he-asws had ordered me for and necessitated the friendship of Ali-asws what was necessitated upon me’’. [55]