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Remembrance of death

ذكر الموت

The destroyer of pleasures and the sharpener of the heart.

The classical doctrine of dhikr al-mawt — why the scholars made remembrance of death a daily practice, and how it clarifies everything that remains.

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From the Pen of

Imam al-Ghazali

27 passages
  1. "Ali rose saying tighten your waist for death for death will indeed meet you do not be troubled by death if it lands in your valley"

  2. "indeed you are to die, and indeed they are to die. Then on the day of resurrection, you will dispute"

  3. "How can we rejoice when death is behind us, the grave before us, the resurrection our appointment,"

  4. "The narration of Anas, death is the resurrection, whoever dies his resurrection has commenced,"

  5. "to death. If they fall ill, death is not distant, and those heedless of death's timing should"

  6. "death, the resurrection after death, accountability, paradise, hell, and all of fate."

  7. "is the praise. He gives life and causes death, and he is alive and does not die. In his hand is all"

  8. "The hadith of Uthman bin Affan, The grave is the first of the hereafter's stages, was transmitted"

  9. "visibly lead to death, repelling natural instincts. What lies beyond death is not witnessed here,"

  10. "The generality of the major resurrection in relation to the specificity of the minor resurrection"

  11. "fire and the trial of the fire, from the torment of the grave and the trial of the grave, from"

  12. "of God and his knowledge will find his consolation unbroken by death. Death does not dismantle"

  13. "Love is intended for the hereafter, and if it is cut off before death, the deed is nullified."

  14. "remember death and the loneliness of the grave whenever his heart feels confined by solitude."

  15. "Whoever reaches this rank will long for meeting Allah, wanting death, but dislikes death only"

  16. "drop, he created you, determined your path, then caused you to die and placed you in a grave."

  17. "performing Umrah until the day of resurrection, and dying in one of the two Harams and being"

  18. "He has seen the face of the angel of death, tasted the bitterness of death, and been assured"

  19. "us, the grave will gather us, the resurrection will unite us, and Allah, the Most High, will"

  20. "By this world, I mean your state before death, and by the hereafter, I mean your state after"

  21. "Abu Hazim once said, All this is inevitable, but we also must face death, then resurrection,"

  22. "death, or resurrection. They cannot prevent blindness, speechlessness, deafness, or illness."

  23. "bring benefit or harm, nor possess life, death, or resurrection for themselves. In your town"

  24. "the heart, and the death of the heart is pursuing the world with the work of the Hereafter."

  25. "caused us to die, and to Him is the resurrection, was recorded by al-Bukhari from Hud Haifa"

  26. "understanding the hereafter, heaven and hell, the punishment of the grave, the bridge, the"

  27. "They are the examiners of the grave, and their questioning is the first trial after death."

From the Pen of

Ibn Kathir

4 passages
  1. "Noah lived for 1,780 years. Regarding his grave, it is narrated that Noah's grave is at the sacred"

  2. "power but was amazed. So Allah sent the angel of death who seized his soul, causing him to die"

  3. "Some of the children of Israel doubted Pharaoh's death, with some claiming he could not die."

  4. "of the Hereafter, and the bitterness of this world is the sweetness of the Hereafter. Indeed"

From the Pen of

Ibn Battuta

5 passages
  1. "For each grave, three horses were erected over every chief's grave, and one horse per grave for"

  2. "grave of Abu al-Darda, his wife Umm al-Darda, the grave of Fadala ibn Ubaid, the grave of"

  3. "In the zawiyah, there is a grave inscribed as the grave of Hud, son of Abir, may peace be upon him."

  4. "neither in his life nor after his death. When the rumor of the sultan's death spread, he fled to an"

  5. "Abraham's grave and said, Descend and pray two units of prayer here, for here is the grave of"

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