Remember the condition of a sleeping person. He sees in a dream the sting of a serpent and feels also its pangs. Even it occurs that he rises up suddenly with a loud shriek, removes the sweat of his face and shifts elsewhere.

He suffers pangs as a man in a wakeful state suffers pangs of a snake-bite. You see his body in a peaceful state and do not see any serpent around him. Yet it is a fact that he sees the serpents and feels their sting but it is not true in your case.- Therefore there is no untruth in the saying of the Prophet Sallallahu Alyhi Wa Sallam.

You know that a serpent itself cannot give you pangs, but the poison which it throws in you gives you pangs. The poison itself is not pang, but the reaction which is creates in you gives you punishment. If the reaction is caused without poison, it is sufficient as a punishment.

~ IHYAA ~