When a person dies and is destined for Paradise then Allah SWT will not punish those people who carried his bier, proceeded behind it and offered the funeral prayer (Daylame).

* The very first reward a Believer will be given after death is that all of the attendees of his Funeral will be forgiven (Bazzar).

* After the bathing the Quran then settles between the deceased chest & shroud.

* The Quran emerges inside the grave upon the arrival of Munkar & Nakeer (as) blocking their path to the deceased.

* After Munkar & Nakeer (as) leave, the Quran then ascends requesting Allah SWT for some of the Blessings of PAradise to be now granted to the deceased.

* Such are the blessings that 1k Angels are required to descend with it.

* The Quran however descends to the deceased quicker than the Angels and apologises for the deceased temporary loneliness in his absence,

* The Angels furnish the grave into a garden of the gardens of PAradise.

* The Angels ascend whilst the deceased is observing them

* The deceased is informed of his family's affair either once or twice daily making appropriate supplications.

The pact of brotherhood between Sa'ab ibn Jath'thaamah & Awf ibn Malik (raa).

The Quran begins to accompany the reciter even before burial.

The Quran stands by the head of the deceased as he's being washed.

Every deceased that dies perceives the one who bathes him (Daylamee) and perceives the one who carries him & lowers him into the grave (Ahmad).

The deceased says to the one bathing him, 'I make you swear by Allah SWT that you be gentle with me in the bathing (Sharus Sudoor).

Allah SWT forgives 40 grave sins of the one who bathes a deceased and then hides his imperfections (Tabarani).

The one who shrouds the deceased then Allah SWT will make him wear the attire of Sundus (fine silk of Paradise) (Tabarani).

He who expresses condolences to a troubled person, then Allah SWT will make him wear 2 such attires from the attires of Paradise... (Tabarani).

The snakes will be let loose on the unbeliever, one near the head the other near the legs (Ahmad).

I am the abode of isolation.

I am the abode of loneliness.

I am the abode of dust.

I am the abode of worms & vermin (Tirmidhi).

The grave says, O Man! Have you forgotten me ? (Tabarani).

Umar ibn Abdul Azeez (rah) and the inspired grave.. The shrouds of the dwellers of the grave do not decay for those who fear Allah SWT whilst performing good deeds (Ibn Abee Dunya).

The belver in the grave is approached by a devil, at the hands charity comes as a defence, stomach and the fasting defends, legs the standing in salah defends.... (Ibn Mandah).

The Eleven Glorious Guards in The Grave

Ablution

Salah

Dua

Zikir

Fasting

Zakat

Sadaqa

Walking to the Masjid

Doing good to others

Campaigns

Enjoin the good forbidding the evil

Hajj, Umrah, Tawaaf and other deeds have their unique status.

The snakes will be let loose on the unbeliever, one near the head the other near the legs (Ahmad).

I am the abode of isolation.

I am the abode of loneliness.

I am the abode of dust.

I am the abode of worms & vermin (Tirmidhi).

The grave says, O Man! Have you forgotten me ? (Tabarani).

Umar ibn Abdul Azeez (rah) and the inspired grave.. The shrouds of the dwellers of the grave do not decay for those who fear Allah SWT whilst performing good deeds (Ibn Abee Dunya).

The belver in the grave is approached by a devil, at the hands charity comes as a defence, stomach and the fasting defends, legs the standing in salah defends.... (Ibn Mandah).

The squeezing of the grave is like the mother squeezing an absent child.

Be cautious of the Earth for it's your mother. No matter what a person does on it, be it good or evil it will inform thereof (Tabarani).

You will be tried in the grave to an extent similar to the trial of Dajaal (Bukhari).

Munkar & Nakir begin to interrogate, your deeds come to your defence, salah, zakat, Quran...

A believer is afflicted due to 2 reasons, due to a sin that can only forgiven due to it or due to a status that can only be reached through it.

The grave will become a garden of Paradise for the one whom the remembrance of death frightens (Jam'ul Jawwami).

When a disciple of Prophet Isa (as) was lowered into the grave, he said

Were you not in a more constricted place than this when you were in your mothers womb, but if Allah SWT wishes to expand something He expands it (Ibn Abee Dunyaa).

The earth weeps for 40 days over the death of a Muslim (Al Wakee)

'Time is a sword -you either cut it or else it will cut you. Occupy your soul with the truth or it will occupy you in falsehood' (Ibn Qayyeem [rah]).

'Remember death often as it will keep you busy from futile matters.'

Continue in supplications for you do not know when they will be answered.

Give thanks regularly for this brings an increase' (Abu Nu'aym- Al Hillyah).

So the heaven & earth wept over them not, Surah 44 v27.

'Whoever is safe in the morning in his burrow, healthy in his body and possesses food for the day is then just like someone who owns the entire world '(Ibn Hibbaan).

Umar (ra), 'By Allah SWT, Compared to the Hereafter, this world is like the distance of one rabbit's hop' (Ibn Adee Duyaa).

It took a man in a suit to inform me I'm going to die-  Allah SWT had informed me all my life and I did not believe Him SWT, Ali Bannat.

'Sell this life for the next and you will then win in both' (Abu Nu'aym).

'When a person fails to do good deeds then Allah SWT puts him in trial through worries' (Ziyaadat Al Zuhud).

Quran Class

Surah 24 v56-58, 26th Session.

Social etiquettes

Leave them alone to eat and to please themselves, let false hopes amuse them, soon they will know.

Surah 30 v7, they know of the outer things in life and are heedless of the hereafter.

Abdullah ibn Abbas (ra) 3 verses which are no longer acted upon

V58 relatives seek permission to enter a dwelling

Surah 4 v8 the sharing of the inheritance with non-inheritors

Surah 49 v13 the lack of Taqwaa, folk focus on wealth & houses.

Call the prayers by their declared names!

Tawafoon- when one is served.... the caring of cats is the same reward as looking after the needy.

Gratitude to parents

Offering 5 prayers is gratitude to Allah SWT

Supplications for parents is a sign of gratitude towards them (Sufiyan ibn Uyana (rah).