Death 16item Please explain the Shia opinion on the After Death World? Why do people fear death and what are the reasons for it? Pleases explain this issue. After death, in the grave, during questions and answers, will Hazrat Ali (a.s) be present or our 12th Imam (a.s) or both or all Imams. In order to help the Mo’mineen support your answer with Ahaadees? What is the life after death experiences of a two or three years old baby girl? Can he/she experience the life beyond the grave as normal individual? I have got a question regarding the Grave and the punishment inside it. Recently I came across some of the pictures of mass graves in the time of Saddam Hussein May Allah curse him. It is very clear that he killed many of the Shias as well. Many of the bodies were in very bad shapes. They were just all bones. Therefore my question to you is that how come when these people were unjustly killed, their bodies were not preserved? Is it true that souls of people are taken in the presence of Allah? How does the body remain alive without the soul in this case? What does it mean when people say, “The soul of a deceased person has awareness of what happens in this world”? How is it so? Is it through the angels? Where are the spirits of people who have died in very remote times e.g. the time of Prophet Ibrahim (a.s) or during the Sassanid government, the Safavi period and in recent times? I am asking this question because we believe the spirits of people have to wait until they are held responsible for their deeds on the Day of Reckoning or the day when people are held accountable for their deeds? In fact, there are good and bad, educated and uneducated people, artists, mystics, clerics, and scientists among them who have lost their lives? Have they all been gathered in the same place? How have they been sorted out and categorized? Do the alms we give and the charity we set up on their behalves have any impact on their lives in the Hereafter? Aren't their spirits contained in a place and doesn't time run on them? Is it possible that after death a mu’min husband and wife will live together? If it’s possible, under what conditions? What does it mean when people say that some people are able to choose their own deaths or to choose when they die (voluntary death)? Please mention sources from the Holy Quran and traditions in your answer. What type of feeling does one get in his grave? Is there a way to create a better environment there for ourselves? If we were to die, and would wish to come back to this world, and Allah was to grant this wish, would we be better people after coming back? I have heard that following the Day of Resurrection or the Day of Reckoning, some people enter Paradise as a reward for their good deeds, and some others enter Hell as a punishment for the bad deeds they have committed in this world. In other words, it is either the Paradise or Hell they go to. Thus, they are either rewarded or punished. My question does not revolve around the bounties and punishment in the Afterworld; rather it has to do with divine bounty and punishment in the grave after one passes away and before the Day of Resurrection. Do the believers receive any rewards or divine bounty in the grave? What about the disbelievers? Are they punished therein? In his Tafsir al-Kashif volume 1 page 407, Allamah Muhammad Jawad Mughniyah (may Allah bless him) discusses the punishment which a dead person receives in the grave. The author divides mankind into four groups. I request you to throw some light on those four groups especially the third and the fourth ones. When it comes to the third group of people, Shaykh Mufid (r.a) describes them as doubtful. What is meant by 'doubtful' here? As for the fourth group, he says that they are dead and they will remain dead until the Day of Resurrection. Kindly, explain the fourth group of people as to who they are? Shaykh Mufid uses as evidence a tradition from the Infallible Imams who said: "Some of the dead people are not punished in the graves." I am anxious to learn more about what Islam has to say about death. I have a question. When a good Muslim dies, will that Muslim be able to know if he or she will be going to paradise? Please give me proof from the Quran and the Hadith, when answering my question. 12