Barzakh means barrier, and the intermediate state has a fuller liturgy attached to it than most outsiders expect. The talqin — prompting the dead with the answers to the three questions — is recited at the graveside in much of the Muslim world, and it is one of the practices Salafi reformers object to as innovation. Sunni and Shia both hold the questioning; the Shia version adds a question about the Imams. The punishment of the grave, adhab al-qabr, is a standard part of Sunni creeds, and the daily prayer includes seeking refuge from it. It is also one of the first things modernist theologians reach for when arguing that eschatological language is symbolic, which puts them at odds with the funeral rites their own communities perform.