Remembrance of death
ذكر الموتThe 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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Imam al-Ghazali
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"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"
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"indeed you are to die, and indeed they are to die. Then on the day of resurrection, you will dispute"
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"How can we rejoice when death is behind us, the grave before us, the resurrection our appointment,"
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"The narration of Anas, death is the resurrection, whoever dies his resurrection has commenced,"
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"to death. If they fall ill, death is not distant, and those heedless of death's timing should"
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"death, the resurrection after death, accountability, paradise, hell, and all of fate."
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"is the praise. He gives life and causes death, and he is alive and does not die. In his hand is all"
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"The hadith of Uthman bin Affan, The grave is the first of the hereafter's stages, was transmitted"
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"visibly lead to death, repelling natural instincts. What lies beyond death is not witnessed here,"
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"The generality of the major resurrection in relation to the specificity of the minor resurrection"
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"fire and the trial of the fire, from the torment of the grave and the trial of the grave, from"
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"of God and his knowledge will find his consolation unbroken by death. Death does not dismantle"
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"Love is intended for the hereafter, and if it is cut off before death, the deed is nullified."
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"remember death and the loneliness of the grave whenever his heart feels confined by solitude."
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"Whoever reaches this rank will long for meeting Allah, wanting death, but dislikes death only"
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"drop, he created you, determined your path, then caused you to die and placed you in a grave."
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"performing Umrah until the day of resurrection, and dying in one of the two Harams and being"
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"He has seen the face of the angel of death, tasted the bitterness of death, and been assured"
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"us, the grave will gather us, the resurrection will unite us, and Allah, the Most High, will"
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"By this world, I mean your state before death, and by the hereafter, I mean your state after"
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"Abu Hazim once said, All this is inevitable, but we also must face death, then resurrection,"
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"death, or resurrection. They cannot prevent blindness, speechlessness, deafness, or illness."
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"bring benefit or harm, nor possess life, death, or resurrection for themselves. In your town"
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"the heart, and the death of the heart is pursuing the world with the work of the Hereafter."
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"caused us to die, and to Him is the resurrection, was recorded by al-Bukhari from Hud Haifa"
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"understanding the hereafter, heaven and hell, the punishment of the grave, the bridge, the"
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"They are the examiners of the grave, and their questioning is the first trial after death."
Ibn Kathir
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"Noah lived for 1,780 years. Regarding his grave, it is narrated that Noah's grave is at the sacred"
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"power but was amazed. So Allah sent the angel of death who seized his soul, causing him to die"
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"Some of the children of Israel doubted Pharaoh's death, with some claiming he could not die."
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"of the Hereafter, and the bitterness of this world is the sweetness of the Hereafter. Indeed"
Ibn Battuta
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"For each grave, three horses were erected over every chief's grave, and one horse per grave for"
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"grave of Abu al-Darda, his wife Umm al-Darda, the grave of Fadala ibn Ubaid, the grave of"
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"In the zawiyah, there is a grave inscribed as the grave of Hud, son of Abir, may peace be upon him."
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"neither in his life nor after his death. When the rumor of the sultan's death spread, he fled to an"
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"Abraham's grave and said, Descend and pray two units of prayer here, for here is the grave of"
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