(Vide, Peak of Eloquence , ISP, 1984) We read in many...

📌(Vide, Peak of Eloquence , ISP, 1984) We read in many Qur'anic verses that when you think that you are a self-made person and you are pious and honourable before Allah, you should not be afraid of death; rather you should be desirous of it. Remembering of Death in Supplications Remembering death and the Resurrection day is the integral part of supplications. As for example in the Supplication of Abu Hamza Thamali we read as follows: O Lord!

At the time of my dying bestow Your Mercy on my sorrow and helplessness. O Lord! Bestow Your Mercy in the loneliness of my grave and in my fear and restlessness. O Lord! On the Day of Judgement Bestow Your Mercy at the time of the scrutiny of my deeds when I am disgraced for failing to give explanation. O Lord! Bestow Your Mercy at the time when my friends take my coffin to the graveyard. Imam Ali's Supplication in Masjid Kufa O Lord!

Protect me from that day and put me under Your shelter, when the tyrant will be chewing his own flesh and would be repenting and saying, 'Would that I had not followed those who misguided me to go astray and instead had adopted the path as shown by the Holy Prophet'. O Lord!

Bestow Your Mercy and protection on me on the day when the parents would not be able to help me; when the repentance of the tyrants will be of no avail; when man will run away even from his father, mother, brothers sons and friends when man will be singularly responsible for his own deeds O Lord ! Protect me on the day when the sinners would wish that their sons, brothers, friends and the entire family might be caught instead of them, and save me from the torment of Hell.

📌Reciting of these supplications cures the sick and brightens the darkness of the soul. They purify the souls, broaden our mental horizon and enlighten us. However the sinners and the transgressors are those who do not believe in the accountability and the Resurrection day or if they have belief in it they are spiritually bankrupt. Why Do We not Remember Death? Imam Ali says, "I am concerned about two things.

Your following of the inordinate desires and your long hopes, as the former will distract you from the right path and the latter will take you away from the remembrance of the Resurrection day". ( Peak of Eloquence ) We read in another tradition. "If somebody less remembers death and the Resurrection day it is because he has long and unbridled hopes and desires''.

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