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Imam Ali ibna Abu
Thalib and Hadrat Fatimah once visited the Prophet SAW and found him in
tears. They asked him the cause and he replied: "O Ali, on the night
of my ascension (Miraj) I saw women of my ummah who were being severely
punished that I became concerned for them and started crying. I saw a woman
who had been hung by her breast. Then I saw a second woman who was eating
her own flesh and fire raged below her. A third woman was hanging by her
tongue and boiling water was being poured down her throat. A fourth was
bent over, her hands and feet were tied together, and snakes and scorpions
were crawling all over her. A fifth was deaf, dumb, and blind, enclosed in
a cage of fire, her brain oozing out of the holes in her skull. Her body
fell apart due to leprosy. Another was hung by her feet, inside and over.
Yet another woman's body was being shredded to pieces by scissors made of
fire. One woman had head of a pig and a body of a donkey and was given
several punishments. Another had the face f a dog, fire was entering her
body from her posterior and come out of her mouth and the angels were
beating her with iron rods." Fatimah then inquired her father,
"Please, tell me, what did these women do (to deserve such
punishment)?" Then the Prophet SAW said: "Listen my dear; The one
who was hanging by her breast used to deny her husband, his rightful
pleasure; The one hanging by her feet used to go out of her house without
her husband's permission; The one eating her own flesh used to beautify
herself and show her body to man other than her husband; The one who's
hands and feet are tied together and covered with snakes and scorpions
never to care impurity and wasn't careful about ghusl, thus taking her
prayer lightly; The deaf, blind, and dumb, used to bear children through
adultery but claim the children belonged to her husband; the one whose body
was being cut by scissors made of fire never observed hijab in front of non
mahrem men. The one whose body was burned and who was eating her own
intestines used to provide other woman for sex; the one with the face of a
pig and a body of a donkey was a back bitter and a liar. And those with the
face of a dog and who had fire entering her behind and coming out of her
face was a jealous woman."
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