{"id":24532,"date":"2026-05-09T05:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/fatwa\/the-difference-between-the-taking-of-the-soul-in-sleep-and-the-taking-of-the-soul-in-death\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:52:37","slug":"the-difference-between-the-taking-of-the-soul-in-sleep-and-the-taking-of-the-soul-in-death","status":"publish","type":"fatwa","link":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/fatwa\/the-difference-between-the-taking-of-the-soul-in-sleep-and-the-taking-of-the-soul-in-death\/","title":{"rendered":"[The Difference Between the Taking of the Soul in Sleep and the Taking of the Soul in Death]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Allah, exalted is He, said: \u201cAnd He is the One who takes you in death by night and knows what you earn by day; then He raises you up therein.\u201d [al-An\u2018am:60] Is the \u201ctaking in death\u201d (wafah) here a complete taking like the death of one who has died, in the sense of the soul leaving? And how do you explain the movements of the sleeping servant if there is no soul in him? And dreams \u2013 such as desire, for example \u2013 to whom are they ascribed: to Allah, to the servant, or to Satan? And does Satan have any connection to the dead person?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Allah, exalted is He, said: \u201cAnd He is the One who takes you in death by night and knows what you earn by day; then He raises you up therein.\u201d [al-An\u2018am:60] Is the \u201ctaking in death\u201d (wafah) here a complete taking like the death of one who has died, in the sense of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/fatwa\/the-difference-between-the-taking-of-the-soul-in-sleep-and-the-taking-of-the-soul-in-death\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[The Difference Between the Taking of the Soul in Sleep and the Taking of the Soul in Death]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1647,"featured_media":25060,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jet_sm_ready_style":"","_jet_sm_style":"","_jet_sm_controls_values":"","_jet_sm_fonts_collection":"","_jet_sm_fonts_links":"","almufti":[]},"fatwa-mufti":[780],"fatwa-subject":[850],"class_list":["post-24532","fatwa","type-fatwa","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fatwa-mufti-al-sayyid_al-allamah_al-hujjah_muhammad_ibn_abdullah_awad_al-muayyidi_may_allah-preserve-him","fatwa-subject-the-fundamentals-of-religion-the-book-of-justic","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fatwa\/24532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fatwa"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fatwa"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fatwa-mufti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fatwa-mufti?post=24532"},{"taxonomy":"fatwa-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fatwa-subject?post=24532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}