
We belong to Allah and to him we will return.
Subhanallah, my Father’s brother has returned to Allah.
I was fortunate to visit him moments before his departure to the Hereafter.
As I stood at his bedside, I noticed that the work of the Angel of death had begun as he looked strangely towards different places in the room, which were perfectly normal to us. He’s crossing of the divide was in full motion, his full departure imminent, and the world of the unseen became ultimately seen to him, in stages, as we are taught in the hadeeths of Baraa’ bin ‘Aazib and Abdullah bin Abbaas (May Allah be pleased with them both).
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