“Woe to you, O Yazid! Who will pray on your behalf after you die? Who will fast on your behalf after you die? Who will please your Lord on your behalf after you die?”

He would then declare, “O people! Why don’t you weep and weep for yourselves the rest of your life? You, whose destination is death, whose home will be the grave, whose bed will be the ground and will have worms as companions. As if this is not sufficient, you still await the greatest horror [Day of Resurrection], so how will your condition be like?

—Yazid ar-Riqqashi

(al-‘Aqibah, p. 40)

(Read on pg 106, Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Qasim, Silent Moments: The Description of Before & After Death Aspects. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2004.)