A blatant Reminder
So spent my day at office today looking at the pic's our friend took for the tragic fire at the Viellagio mall and what I saw in those photos was death coming right in front of me, and all I felt was fear. What will happen when it comes for me?
Or you?
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The man lying there on the rooftop, weak, taking the last breaths of his life.All the little loved ones whose's lungs were suffering to exchange oxygen, their bodies emaciated and numb due to the overwhleming heat and smoke. their hair falling off, leaving only a few strands, and their eyes half shut as their souls tried to escape into the other world.
I was thinking of my own soul and how it would rise from my body, and prayed it would do so with ease. As I ontinued watching the naked man lay there, I started to wonder what he could see perhaps the Angel of Death?
I could not bear to look at the pic any more my emotional stability quickly falling every moment. I thus closed the post and went to another one to try and figure everything out and to look into duas and verses that should be recited at the time of death.
These were among the many narrations on death by our Prophet and it pretty much says it all. We can today do all we like,enjoy all of life's golden moments, eat drink and be merry, live our life to the fullest so to speak, but when death comes to us...
I know what you mean. I have done that too. My mom was by my uncle's side whilst he was dying a painful death, but said of how in his last moment he looked intently at a fixed place ahead, then suddenly smiled a relieved smile brighter than he had ever smiled in his life, before dropping. He always, for some reason,wanted to die during the call for prayer, and he did! I keep imagining what did he see? how did it feel to know your end is here?
I only ever pray for martyrdom. That's how I wanna go. Our Prophet did wish for us ""May you wear new clothes,live well, and die a martyr"
Funerals and deaths of others are always reminders that our own may not be very far away! May Allah grant us all blessed ends..Aameen.
Horrible tragedy indeed.
Unfortunately, when driving to work on Al Waab street this morming, the daily stream of grazy landcruisers zigzagging through traffic started again; two were even driving on the sidewalk.
Oh yes, tragedy will never happen to me, right ?
Fatimah. AMEN...