of his skin from head to foot. (imagine the excruciating pain when your skin is being peeled of your body whilst you are alive) So, who can imagine the severe pain at the moment of death throes? Pious predecessors have stated: Agony of death is more severe than being struck by sword, whilst being ripped open with a saw and being cut up with a scissor, because when the sword hits the body then it feels pain due to its connection with the soul. Now ponder seriously, how painful it would be when the sword strikes the soul directly? Further, one can beg for help when injured with a sword because his tongue and body still has energy whereas a dying person’s voice and screaming seizes due to the extreme pain of death.

At that moment the extreme difficulties and anguish of death  overpowers his heart and saps out the entire energy from his body leaving him with no strength in any part of his body; it even overpowers the sense of thinking and understanding and leaving him dumb as well as disabling his other parts of body. Even if one longs to seeks to cry, scream or shout for help, he cannot. If there is any strength left in him, it would only enable him to make a low gurgling sound or the sound of burping of a cow. As the soul leaves, the body begins to change into dusty-colour as if he was made of dust and dust manifests itself in the end of his life. The soul is extracted from every vein as a result the pain spread throughout the entire body, internally and externally. His eyeballs roll upwards, his lips dries up, his tongue become slack and his fingers turn yellow. The soul is extracted from every vein. Don’t ask about the state of that person undergoing this. Imagine if one vein had to be pulled out of the body, how unbearable the pain will be. Imagine that the soul is not extracted from just one vein but from all the capillaries, veins and arteries how more unbearable that pain is going to be. The gradually every part of the body is overcome by death. First the feet grow cold; then the shins and thighs, and then each and every limb feel the misery and agony. This continues until the soul pulled towards the throat. At this point all his hope on the world and its people is finished and door of repentance was closed a while before and remorsefulness and wistfulness overwhelm him in all direction. (Ihya-ul-‘Uloom, vol. 5, pp. 511 to 512)

نزع میں رَبِّ غَفّار تجھ سے            موت سے قبل بیمار تجھ سے

طالبِ جلوۂ مُصطفٰے ہے               یا خُدا تجھ سے میری دُعا ہے

وِردِ لب کلمہ طَیّبَہ ہو                   اور ایمان پر خاتمہ ہو

آ گیا ہائے وقتِ قضا ہے                یا خدا تجھ سے میری دُعا ہے

(Wasail-e-Bakhshish, pp. 135, 137)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! Have you heard the awfully horrifying state of death throes of a dying person who becomes paralysed with the intense pain? His brain is disturbed and disorientated, it makes his body weak and silences his tongue.

Remember that since Deen-e-Islam is a complete Deen, it guides us in every sphere of our lives. Therefore, Deen-e-Islam has blessed us with Madani pearls in this regard as well; if a patient suffers such kind of condition then what is our duty. Thus some important Madani pearls are stated in this regard from Bahar-e-Shari’at and acting upon them will not only be very beneficial for us but also for the one who dies and it will become easier for us to comply with Shari’ah on this very critical occasion too. Sadr-ush-Shari’ah,  Badr-ut-Tariqah, Mufti Muhammad Amjad ‘Ali A’zami عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَـوِی has mentioned: