16/07/2025
I went to visit my great aunt's house a few days ago. My aunt's religious life has always impressed me—she is very pious, prays and fasts regularly, and her mouth is always filled with verses from the Quran or a hadith.
One afternoon, while I was standing in front of the mirror, applying nail polish to my hands and feet, my aunt suddenly came and stood next to me and said,
"Mitali Ma, don't apply nail polish... it's an obstacle to ablution."
I said with a little laugh,
"Aunt, everyone does it now!" "If you apply remover, it will come off, don't be so scared!"
Aunt also fell silent, maybe she was just praying to Allah—that this girl would understand herself one day.
Then a few days later, an incident happened—which even today, when I go to sleep at night after seeing it with my own eyes, makes me shudder!
A woman I knew next door to my aunt—polite, veiled, and well-spoken—suddenly died at 1 am. A natural death. Everyone thought that the funeral would be held in the morning—that the burial would take place around noon.
The body was kept on ice. The whole house was filled with the sound of crying, the weight of grief was such that the house would collapse.
In the morning, when Imam Sahib's wife went into the house to bathe him, she suddenly saw—dark-colored nail polish shining on the dead woman's hands and feet!
She came out without saying a word and called her husband, whispering in his ear—
"You are bathing... but there is nail polish on her nails!"
Imam The master stopped. He quickly came and saw the body. Then he called the woman's children and said: "Your mother cannot be buried now. There is nail polish on every nail. She has not performed ablution, nor has she taken a bath. Until the nail polish is removed, there will be no funeral, nor will there be a burial." This is the rule of Sharia."
Everyone's mouth went dry.
Everyone's hands and feet were shaking, crying stopped and anxiety began.
Remover was brought... it didn't work!
Kerosene, blade, cotton—nothing could remove the nail polish.
By then, the body had swollen.
A strange smell was coming from the whole body.
Insects and spiders were swarming all over.
New ice was brought and placed again.
Still... the nail polish wouldn't come off at all!
Night had come.
The time for Isha had passed.
A mother, a wife, a Muslim woman—was suffering waiting for the earth.
Everyone requested the Imam,
"Sir, can't you bury me like this? I can't keep me anymore!"
The Imam said slowly,
"If I bury her in this condition, her punishment will be much greater. The part of the body that is not ablution, that part will be burned in the fire—this is not a story, it is in the Hadith."
Finally, everyone decided together—
Every nail of hers will be cut off!
They cut it off one by one—a co**se does not have the ability to withstand the blow, but we had to endure it like this due to our mistake.
She was buried after Fajr—a co**se whose ablution was complete but whose nails were lost…!
Dear sisters,
I saw this incident with my own eyes.
Even today, the pain of that co**se seems to have entered my heart.
Was nail polish really necessary?
A shocking death, and a co**se—whose funeral was delayed just because of our slight negligence.
Even today, I never apply nail polish again.
I tell you—decorate your hands with lots of beautiful henna, ablution is done, and there is no sin.
Come, let's promise today—
"Oh Allah, I will no longer use nail polish No—I repent, please forgive me…!"
Death is not inevitable,
Someone can die before their age in any accident.. But we should be prepared… shouldn't we? 🍃
May Allah grant us death with faith. May our nails, eyes, mouth—everything be pure during that last journey… 🤲🏻
