and then the thighs, and then each and every part of the body faces agony after agony and pain after pain, until the soul is pulled out up to the throat. At this point, the dying person’s hopes from the world and its people come to an end, whereas the door of repentance has already been closed and then he is surrounded by deep remorse and grief from all four directions.

(Ihya-ul-‘Uloom, vol. 5, pp. 511, 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

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب              صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! Only the deceased knows the pang of death, but we should never forget our death. Sayyiduna Imam Muhammad Ghazali رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has said: Death is horrible and it has a great danger, nevertheless people are heedless. Neither do they think about it, nor they remember it and if someone thinks about it, he thinks of it without paying any attention, because their hearts are occupied with worldly desires. Therefore, the heart does not obtain benefit from the thought of death, however benefit can be obtained by this that one should remember death considering that death is before him and apart from it all other things should be removed from the heart. For example, if a person intends to travel through a dangerous jungle or intends to go on a journey, then he only thinks about this, therefore, when the connection of the remembrance of death is directly to the heart, it will be effective and such signs will appear as one will lose interest in this world to an extent that every joy of this world will become worthless for him.

(Ihya-ul-‘Uloom, vol. 5, pp. 195)

Dear Islamic brothers! Having listened to the reality of death, now let’s listen to some virtues of remembering death: