9. THE REALITY OF DEATH
Just like everyone else, I feel sad for the death of a relative, and I feel sad each time I imagine how bodies get disintegrated in the grave.
I used to read some Prophetic traditions but never used to think about them. For example his saying: “The soul of a believer is a bird that sits on the trees of Paradise until Allah orders it to return to its owner’s body on the day of resurrection.”
I believe that departure will be towards comfort. This body is nothing because it will disintegrate and be revived on Judgment Day, so people should not think about its disintegration. Instead people must think about how souls will relocate towards comfort. This way a person will not feel too sad, and will realise that meeting loved ones will be near.
Sorrow remains because people are attached to appearances. A person only sees a good figure that disintegrated, so he feels sad for that. A body is not ‘the human’-, it is only the thing in which the soul rides. Souls do not get disintegrated in any way.
You must not feel sad for the disintegration of the body of a loved one.
Remember the joy that souls will receive and the nearness of resurrection and the quickness of meeting.
Thinking about such things will lessen sadness and make things easy
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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