Is purgatory universal?

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The philosophy about purgatoryconnection the souls have with this world

Are all those who have left this world and have gone to purgatory have a life full of awareness or is it for some as a deep sleep full of unawareness and that they will rise on the Day of Reckoning after thousands of years but believe it to be a sleep of a few hours?

Verse 55 of Surah Rum says”

“On the Day the Hour is established, the sinners will swear that they tarried not but an hour (In purgatory).”

But this will be when we do not take the purgatory to be something inferior to the Day of Judgment (Reflect).

Some verses like verse 100 of Surah Muminun have a universal connotation and speaks about all the disbelievers:

“And Behind them is the Barzaq (purgatory) until the Day they are raised again.”

( We can take the first verse to be special and the second to be common) and the traditions tell us that only two groups of people will be subjected to question, those who are pure in their believe and those who are total disbelievers but the rest will be exempted.

We have mentioned these traditions in our previous discussions but for more information please see volume 4 of Behar-ol-Anwar page 260 hadiths 97 to 100.

The term “and they will be exempted” does not mean that they will not go to purgatory but it means that they will not be questioned in the graves. On the reverse side we find from the traditions about (Fishari Qabr) that this issue is universal and except for a few chosen people all will suffer from it. (We have mentioned the hadiths about this earlier.)

 

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