One day he was sitting contemplating in the graveyard of Wadi-as-Salaam in Najaf – where many great personalities are buried. He saw that some people had just buried a man.
Suddenly, for a brief moment, the veils were lifted from before his eyes and he saw angels descending from the heavens with whips of fire with which they began to strike the dead man. He started to scream and shriek in pain, but none of the mourners heard or saw anything unusual; there was a man sitting near the grave reciting Qur’an and another was distributing dates and fruits, and another was weeping, but none saw what was happening to that man.
However, the terrible sight that the Shaykh saw in those brief moments made him ill for one whole week.
Source: “Karamat wa Hikayate Ashiqane Khuda” – “Miracles and Anecdotes of the Close Servants of Allah”, pp 61-64.Translated AJ/231105
Lessons from the Lives of Ulema