Dear Islamic brothers! The word “curse” – laꜤnah in Arabic - means to be deprived and distanced from Allah Almighty’s mercy.

Let us think about this for a moment. Imagine how disgraced a person must be for angels to send curses upon him. Imagine the lowliness and condition of such a person.

How would such a person ever have his hardships be eased? How can he ever attain success? Above all else, if such a person dies without repenting, what will become of him in the grave, on the Day of Judgment, and upon the Ṣirāṭ?

The severe consequences of speaking ill about the Shaykhayn

It is narrated that there was a man named Abū Khaṣīb, known for distributing burial shrouds. Whenever somebody passed away and their family could not afford a shroud, he would provide one for them.

One day, he was told there was a death in a certain household. Abū Khaṣīb took another person with him and rushed there. He said, “I saw people gathered with the deceased lying before them, a brick placed on his abdomen. They were praising him, recounting his good deeds.”

Abū Khaṣīb asked, “Why have you not ritually bathed him?” They replied, ‘We have no shroud.’ He sent his friend to fetch one, assigned someone to dig a grave, and the family began heating water to bathe the body.

As Abū Khaṣīb sat near the body, the corpse suddenly began to move. The brick fell away from the body, and the dead person sat up, screaming, “The Fire! The Fire.”

Abū Khaṣīb exclaimed, “Say لا إله إلا الله!” The dead man replied, “This will not benefit me now! May Allah send laꜤnah upon that old man from Kufa who misled me; the old man who told me to swear at Abū Bakr and ꜤUmar (رَضِیَ اللهُ عَنْهُما)!”

In another narration, the dead person said, “I was taken to the Fire and shown my place in it. It was said to me: ‘Go back and tell the people of your fate! You will return to this very Fire.’” After saying this, he collapsed and died once more.^[1]