The
Shaikh, the Imaam, the Allaamah,
the Shaikh of Islaam, Abul-Faraj Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn
al-Jawzi, said:
“From the most interesting
things is the alertness of the dying person
at the time of his death–for he becomes perceptive to a degree which cannot be
described,
and worried to an extent that has no limits.
And
he yearns for his times of old, and wishes that he be left so that he can make
up for what passed him by, and so that he can be truthful in his...repentance
in accordance with the level of certainty he [now] has about death.
And
he–out of grief–almost kills his own soul before its [actual] death.
And
if a [single] atoms weight of these things were found at the time of health and
well-being, everything that is intended by doing pious deeds would be achieved.
So,
the intellectual one is he who pictures that hour and acts according to what it
requires. And if he is not able to do that, then he visualizes it as much
as he is able to, for it will prevent desire’s hand, and will arouse
seriousness/earnestness [in him].
As
for the person who has that hour right before his very eyes [i.e., is always
thinking about it in order to prepare], then he is like its prisoner.
As
is reported about Habib al-Ajami. When he would wake in the morning he
would say to his wife, ‘If I die today, then let so and so be the one who
washes me, and so and so be the ones who carry me.’
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