75. I replied: "If I have found favor with you, Lord, show this also to your servant: After death, as soon as each person gives up his or her soul, will we be kept asleep until the time comes for you to begin to renew creation, or will we be tormented right away?"
76. He replied to me: “I will show you this too. But don’t associate yourself with those who have shown contempt, and don’t count yourself among those who are tormented.
77. You have a treasure of works stored up with the Most High, but it won’t be shown to you until the last times.
78. “Now a word about death: When the final sentence goes forth from the Most High that a person should die, when the spirit recedes from the body so that it may be sent again to him who gave it, the first thing is to stand in awe before the glory of the Most High.
79. If the spirit belonged to one of those who showed contempt and didn’t keep the Most High’s way, if it was one of those who despised his Law and who hates those who fear God,
80. these spirits don’t go into their dwellings but will immediately wander about in torments. They will constantly grieve and be sorrowful for seven reasons:
81. The first reason—because they despised the Law of the Most High.
82. The second reason—because they can’t now effectively change their hearts and lives so that they might live.
83. The third reason—because they will see the reward laid up for those who have believed the Most High’s testimonies.
84. The fourth reason—because they will consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days.
85. The fifth reason—because they will see the dwelling places of others, guarded by angels in great silence.
86. The sixth reason—because they see the torment coming upon them from now on.
87. The seventh reason, which is greater than all the previously mentioned reasons—because they will melt away in confusion and be consumed in disgrace.“They will wither in fear when they see the glory of the Most High, before whom they sinned when they were alive and before whom they are to be judged in the last times.
88. “The arrangement for those who kept God’s ways is this when they begin to be separated from the corruptible body.
89. In the time of their exile here they labored hard to serve the Most High. Every hour they endured danger so that they might keep the Law of the lawgiver perfectly.
90. Therefore, this is the word about them: