حدثنا محمد بن القاسم المفسر الجرحاني - رضي الله عنه - قال: حدثنا أحمد بن الحسن الحسيني، عن الحسن بن علي الناصر[ي]، عن أبيه، عن محمد بن علي، عن أبيه الرضا، عن أبيه موسى بن جعفر عليهم السلام، قال: قيل للصادق عليه السلام: صف لنا الموت. فقال: للمؤمن كأطيب ريح يشمه فينعس لطيبه وينقطع التعب والألم كله عنه، و للكافر كلسع الأفاعي ولدغ العقارب أو أشد. قيل: فإن قوما يقولون إنه أشد من نشر بالمناشير وقرض بالمقاريض ورضخ بالأحجار وتدوير قطب الأرحية في الأحداق. قال: فهو كذلك هو على بعض الكافرين والفاجرين. ألا ترون منهم من يعاين تلك الشدائد فذاكم الذي هو أشد من هذا إلا من عذاب الآخرة فهذا أشد من عذاب الدنيا قيل: فما بالنا نرى كافرا يسهل عليه النزع فينطفي وهو يتحدث ويضحك ويتكلم وفي المؤمنين أيضا من يكون كذلك وفي المؤمنين والكافرين من يقاسي عند سكرات الموت هذه الشدائد؟ فقال: ما كان من راحة للمؤمن هناك فهو عاجل ثوابه وما كان من شديدة فتمحصيه من ذنوبه ليرد الآخرة نقيا نظيفا مستحقا لثواب الأبد لا مانع له دونه، وما كان سهولة هناك على الكافر فليوفى أجر حسناته في الدنيا ليرد الآخرة وليس له إلا ما يوجب عليه العقاب وما كان من شدة على الكافر هناك فهو ابتداء عقاب الله له بعد نفاد حسناته ذلكم بأن الله عدل لا يجوز.
1.	We were told by Muhammed bin Qasem, the exegete, al-Jarjani, may Allah be pleased with him, that he said: We were told by Ahmad bin Hasan al-Hussaini, from Hasan bin Ali al-Nasiri, from his father, from Muhammed bin Ali, from his father, al-Rida, from his father, Musa bin Ja’far, peace be upon them, that he said: It was said to al-Sadiq, peace be upon him: Describe death to us. He said: To the believer, it is like the best perfume he smells, and so he becomes sleepy due to its goodness, and all tiredness and pain is stopped in him, and to the disbeliever, it is like the stinging of snakes, the pinching of scorpions and even worse. It was: A people are saying that it is more severe than being sawn with saws, clipped with swords, stoned with stones and the rolling of the grinding machine. He said: It is like that to some disbelievers and dissolute people. Do you not see from them those who observe those hardships? That is what is more severe than this, except (that it is not more severe) than the torment of the Hereafter, for that is more severe than the torment of this world. It was said: Then what is it with us that we see a disbeliever whose death struggle is easy upon him, by which he turns off while telling, laughing and speaking, while among the believers as well there are those who are like that? Also, among the believers and the disbelievers (alike) there are those who endure these hardships during the intoxication of death? He said: That which is of comfort to the believer there (during that stage), is his reward that was rushed to him, and that which is of distress is purification of him from his sins in order that he may reach the Hereafter clean, pure and deserving of the reward of the everlasting that has no obstacle to it. That which is of ease there to the disbeliever, is for him to be granted the reward of his good deeds in this world in order that he may reach the Hereafter while not having but what necessitates punishment upon him, and that which is of distress upon the disbeliever there is the commencement of the punishment of Allah to him after his good deeds have finished. That is because Allah is (An Enforcer of) Justice, He does not tyrannize.