THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaum Arba'à, 1st day of Jumaadal Aakhir 1440, (Wednesday, 6th February, 2019). THE MAJOR SIN FOR WHICH A MUSLIM WILL BE PUNISHED IN THE GRAVE. BismilLah As Muslims, there is something wrong with us if we don't get panic each day due to the information we have about the punishment of the grave. Our judgement day starts as soon as we die. Our grave will be the gate for our Paradise or hell waeeyaazulLah(may ALLAH protect us from it). Let's remind each other about the major sin that can cause punishment of the grave if we don't regret and seek sincere repentance. Shirk (associating others with ALLAH) and kufr (disbelieving in HIM). ALLAH says: “And if you could but see when the Zaalimoon (polytheists and wrongdoers) are in the agonies of death, while the angels are stretching forth their hands (saying): ‘Deliver your souls! This day you shall be recompensed with the torment of degradation because of what you used to utter against ALLAH other than the truth. And you used to reject HIS Aayaat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) with disrespect!’”[al-An’aam 6:93]. When death approaches the kaafir, the Angels tell him or her of what is awaiting of him of punishment, chains and fire, and the wrath of ALLAH; his soul disperses in his body and refuses to leave his body, and the angels beat him until his soul comes out of his body, saying, “Deliver your souls! This day you shall be recompensed with the torment of degradation” [al-An’aam 6:93]. Evidence that shirk is one of the causes of punishment in the grave is to be found in the hadeeth of Zayd ibn Thaabit (may ALLAH be pleased with him) who said: When the Prophet (peace and blessings of ALLAH be upon him) was in a garden belonging to Banu’l-Najjaar on a mule of his and we were with him, it stumbled and nearly threw him. There he saw some graves, six or five or four. He said: “Who knows the occupants of these graves?” A man said: I do.” He said: “When or how did these people die?” He said: “They died in shirk.” He said: “This people are been punished in their graves. Were it not that you would not bury one another, I would pray to ALLAH to make you hear what I hear of the torment in the grave.” Then he turned to us and said: “Seek refuge with ALLAH from the punishment of Hellfire…” Narrated by Imam Muslim 2867. The words in this hadeeth, “They died in shirk,” indicate that shirk is a cause of the punishment in the grave. The most common shirk nowadays is our going to fortune tellers or soothsayers (The so called Maalam booka), pastors etc for spiritual help believing in their lies they obtain from evil jinns. Please also advise your non Muslim relatives and friends before it's too late that whoever dies a non Muslim hearing about Islam and refusing to accept what the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam brought to mankind will enter the hell fire no doubt about that says the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Don't wait for them to die then start wasting your time helping with their burial and funeral arrangements. May ALLAH (Al-Haadi, The Guide) keep guiding us and protect our family from any acts of shirk. Aameen.