77. After all, you have a treasure of good works stored up with God Most High, which will not be shown to you until the last days.
78. But to answer your question about death: When God Most High has pronounced the final decree that a person shall die, the soul leaves the body to return to the one who gave it. Immediately it praises the glory of God Most High.
79. Let me explain first about people who had no use for the ways of God Most High and hated those who worshipped him.
80. There is no place where their souls can go for rest; they must wander about for ever in torment, grief, and sorrow. Their torment will progress in seven stages.
81. Firstly, they ignore the Law of God Most High.
82. Secondly, they can no longer make a sincere repentance and obtain life.
83. Thirdly, they see the reward stored up for those who put their faith in the covenants of God Most High.
84. Fourthly, they think about the torment that has been stored up for them in the last days.
85. Fifthly, they see angels guarding the homes of other souls in complete silence.
86. Sixthly, they recognize that they must soon be tormented.
87. Seventhly, and worst of all, when they see the glory of God Most High, they are sick with remorse and shame. They cringe in fear, because while they were living they sinned against him. And now they are about to come before him to be judged on the last day.
88. “Now let me explain about those who followed the ways of God Most High and what will happen when the time comes for them to leave their mortal bodies.
89. While they lived on earth, through constant difficulty and danger, they served God Most High and carefully kept the Law given by the Lawgiver.
90. This is what they will receive:
91. they will rejoice when they see the great glory of God. He will receive them, and they will enter their rest in seven stages of joy.
92. The first joy is to have struggled hard and won the victory over the evil impulse which was formed in them, but which did not succeed in leading them from life into death.