Abraham (Prophet Ibrahim, peace be upon him), as we are told on p.

Abraham (Prophet Ibrahim, peace be upon him), as we are told on p. ‘79 of Ibrahim Muhammad al-Jamal’s book on life . after death, asked the angel of death (as) to show him how he takes away the soul of a good servant of Allah, one who has performed his prayers and observed the fast and all other obligations, so he told him to look the other way. He did, then he looked at the angel and saw a young man wearing good clothes, smelling good, and his complexion was radiant.

Ibrahim (as) said, "By Allah! Had a believer enjoyed nothing more than casting a look at your face, he would have felt contented." Then he asked him how he took the souls of the disbelievers away. "Look the other way," said the angel of death to Ibrahim (as). When Ibrahim (as) looked again, the angel of death appeared to him in human form: a person as dark as coal with his feet on earth and head in the skies, the ugliest the eyes can ever see; each hair on his body was a flame of fire.

Ibrahim (as) then said, "By Allah! Had a disbeliever cast one look at you, it would have sufficed him." Chapter 21 : What is Sirat Al-Mustageem?

The significance of fast will be realised during a much more critical time: when the souls are to pass on al-Sirat al-Mustaqeem, the Straight Path, the path regarding which the believers pray Allah to keep their feet firm as they pass on it, the one mentioned in Surat al-Fatiha and regarding which they plead to the Almighty at least ten times a day (twice in each rek’a) saying: "Guide us to the Straight Path (al-Sirat al-Mustaqeem)" (Holy Qur’an, 1:6).

Imam Ja’fer al-Sadiq (as), as recorded on p.41, Vol. 1, of Tabatabai’s (1His full name is: Muhammad I-Iusain ihn Sayyid Muhammad ibn Sayyid Husain ibn Mirza Ali Asgher al-Tabrizi al Tabatabai, the judge. He was born in 1892 in Tabriz and died in Oum in 1981. His 2l-Volume exegesis, AlMizan, is only one of his numerous works. The edition utilized for this book was published in 1991 by AI-A’lami Establishment of Beirut, Lebanon.