Death

[Zeynab]

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

A very good piece from Facebook prayer circle with an excerpt from the writings of the Turkish writer, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi.

THE LOSS OF LOVED ONES

Death is the incident when the spirit departs from body. What dies is not the spirit but the body. Essentially human being means spirit. Body is his residence or his dress. That his dress is changed, destroyed, or vanished does no harm to his existence. The One who puts this dress on us and sets up our relation with the universe, takes our spirit back from our dress and takes us away from this residence.  He is Our Sustainer.  After the life in our grave what we call the Intermediate Realm, when humans are resurrected anew for an eternal life.  Spirits shall be given bodies proper to that realm. Death is not nothingness. Death is not nonentity.

Quoting Said Nursi:

"Through the light of belief, it shows to the heart of a believer that death is not the end, but a change of abode; that the grave is not the mouth of a dark well, but the door to light-filled worlds; and that for all its glitter, the world is like a prison compared to the Hereafter. For sure, to be released from the prison of this world and enter the gardens of Paradise, and pass from the troublesome turmoil of bodily life to the world of rest and the arena where spirits soar, and to slip free from the vexatious noise of creatures and go to the Presence of the Most Merciful is a journey, indeed, a happiness, to be desired with a thousand lives.

Here is good news for you!  Death is not destruction, nothingness, or nonentity; it is not cessation or extinction; it is not eternal separation or non-existence nor an event based on chance; it is not authorless obliteration. Rather, it is being discharged by the Author Who is All-Wise and All-Compassionate; it is a change of abode. It is being dispatched to eternal bliss, to your true home. It is the door of union to the Intermediate Realm, which is where you will meet with many of your friends."

(Bediuzzaman, The Letters, 226)