But when a disbeliever is buried, the earth says: You are not welcome.

But when a disbeliever is buried, the earth says: You are not welcome. Before this I detested your coming to me. Now that you are in my custody, you will see how I deal with you. At that moment he would be squeezed in such a way that his bones will merge into each other. A life of hardships that the Almighty Allah has promised to the disbelievers in the grave includes ninety-nine large serpents who will chew his flesh and crush his bones. This will continue till Judgment Day.

If one of those large serpents were to blow on the earth, nothing would ever grow on it again. O people, protect your weak selves and bodies that have lived in a tender way. Protect your bodies from the hardships, which they are unable to bear.

Do that which the Almighty Allah likes and keep away from acts, which He has prohibited.”[^4] The Holy Prophet (S) remarked about cause of the squeeze of grave that Saad had to suffer: “He was harsh and bad-tempered with his wife.”[^5] The Messenger of Allah (S) said: “Squeeze of grave is due to wasting of the bounties.”[^6] It is because of such traditions that most scholars have concluded that faith in questioning of grave is a fundamental principle of Islamic faith.

Mulla Mohsin Faiz Kashani writes: Questioning, and punishment and reward of the grave is one of the necessary fundamentals of Islamic faith since there are a large number of traditions in this regard in Shia and Sunni sources, which remove every kind of doubt about it.[^7] Shaykh Tusi writes in Tajreedul Itiqad: Chastisement of the grave is definite and imminent and also an inordinate number of traditions have come down about it from Ahle Bayt (as).[^8] The chastisement of Purgatory (Barzakh) and its rewards are matters on which Muslims have consensus.[^9] Therefore questioning and chastisement of the grave should not be doubted about; however its actual process requires discussion and research.

Whether man would hear the questions posed by the angels through these same worldly ears and would he reply through this same tongue or it is through some other types? How is it possible for a body, which has lost the functioning of the heart, brain, organs, ears, eyes, tongue and other limbs and which has cooled down to hear the questions of the angels with the ears and how is it possible to answer them with the tongue?