Cage of Fire: A Tale of the Consequences of Associating with the Kuffar

Hadhat Thanvi (rahmatullah alayhi) narrated the following episode, which he heard from Moulana Muhammad Ya’qub (rahmatullah alayhi):

It happened prior to the 1875 mutiny (i.e. the uprising against the British). A wealthy Pathan resident of the town of Jalalabad, dist. Muzaffarnagar, had supported the Hindus in the construction of their shrine. The wealthy Pathan after sometime became very ill. Molvi Ghulaam Husain Saheb who was a hakeem in Thanabovan, and also among the auliya, went to Jalalabad to attend to another patient. The wealthy man’s relatives called the hakeem to attend to him. After feeling his pulse, the hakeem said that there was no longer any hope for the sick man (i.e. the wealthy Pathan). So saying, he stood up to leave, but the sick man grabbed his hand and implored: For Allah’s sake don’t leave me. Just now two men with a cage of fire appeared in front of me, telling me that they will be taking me away locked in that cage. When you appeared, they moved off saying that they would soon return to take me. If you go they will come.
Thereafter the man died. Several people in their dreams were instructed to abstain from all acts of islae-thawab for this man because he had died a kafir. Na-uthubillah!

Hadhrat Thanvi (rahmatullah alayhi) added:

The barkat of Ahlullah (Auliya) is such that the Angels of Punishment withdrew. Some sins while thought to be insignificant are exceptionally grave in the ultimate end. Participation in the customs and festivals of the kuffaar is of this kind.

Malfoozat of Maulana Thanwi (Rahmatullah ‘alaih)