Fear of hell, advice please

[GrandizerII]

I also read a search for Muslim NDEs by Kreps, where he collects a few, but even he says he would have expected many meetings with Muhammad in these NDEs as people report dreams with him or visions of him, so again, I don't get why they cannot hallucinate him.

Well, think as much as you can of all the possible explanations for these differences, without invoking the supernatural or the divine. I've already thought up at least three off the top of my head in less than a minute.

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Here, let me list these three (among many) possible explanations, and you weigh them against your current preferred explanation:

1. NDEs are a rather rare phenomenon among Muslim communities. And due to that rarity, you are less likely to stumble upon reports of Muslims visioning Muhammad in their NDEs.

2. Muslims do experience NDEs as much as Christian communities (and in which they often vision Muhammad), but Muslims rarely report these NDEs due to fear of punishment/ostracization, since it may be considered sacrilegious to do so, given that Muhammad is not a deity of death in the Islamic faith.

3. Kreps just couldn't go as far as he wanted, considering that most of the reports (if not all of them) came from online sources, so he had less stuff to work with than he had desired.

Also, this is what Kreps notes in his report:

With all of these observations in mind, I began searching for Muslim NDEs, expecting to see many accounts of Muslims meeting with the Prophet Muhammad in the afterlife. This expectation was even stronger given that there are numerous accounts of Muslim saints known as awliya (friends of Allah) meeting Muhammad either in dreams or in daytime visions. Two of the more notable saints involved in these kind of meetings were Abu Hassan ash-Shadhili, originator of the great Sufi tariqat, the Shadhili Order, and Ibn al-Arabi, the great Andalusian Sufi also known as the Sheikh al-Akbar, or the greatest Sheikh. I will describe his account, which is very similar to an actual NDE, later in order to highlight the specificity of the Islamic perspective on Ultimate Reality.

So those who have reported seeing Muhammad in their dreams or daytime visions aren't exactly ordinary laypeople, are they? Perhaps that's an important factor to consider as well.