Advising a young man Sayyiduna Mansoor Bin ‘Ammar رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has said:         O young man! May your youth not deceive you; there were many such young men who delayed in repentance and had long hopes, kept on saying after forgetting death: We will repent tomorrow, we will repent the day after tomorrow even to the extent that the Angel of death عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام came in this state of heedlessness and they have gone to their graves.

(Mukashafa-tul-Quloob, pp. 34)

Remember! The time of agonies of death is very hard. The one who passes through this state can feel its severities. If a deceased comes out of her grave and tells the people of this world the state of the pain of death, the peace and comfort of their life would get destroyed. Mentioning the severities of death, Sayyiduna Shaddad Bin Aws رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ said: For a believer, there is nothing more dreadful than death in this world and the Hereafter as its pain is severe than being cut open by saws, cut by scissors and boiled in pots. If a deceased comes out of his grave and tells people about death, people could not obtain any benefit from life, nor could they sleep peacefully.

(Ihya-ul-‘Uloom, vol. 5, pp. 209)

Dear Islamic sisters! Have you noticed how bitter the taste of death is, which every person has to experience unwillingly! So delicate is the time of agonies of death in which on one hand, there are the troubles of death, on the other hand, the attacks of accursed Satan. Satan uses different types of tricks in order to deprive a person of her faith at the time of her death. He even impersonates parents and attacks the faith of some Muslims and tries to prove non-Muslims right.

At that time, the person who is greatly blessed by Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ succeeds in protecting her faith from Satan. Under these conditions, Islam has commanded us to do good to a Muslim. What things should be paid special attention to, just right before and after the soul has been seized? Let’s listen to some important Madani pearls about them. If we act upon these Madani pearls, they will not only benefit us, but they will also be very useful for the deceased, اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ.