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I know this is an odd question. But if you have, could you share that experience?
I personally never saw this. Nor has anyone close to me died.. yet...
But I was wondering perhaps you could share your stories and the lessons you learned from it.
One of my friends... He's only 15, and his mother died...So sudden. Just collapsed...
Yes I have seen my father die in my hands. He was a cancer patient and getting treatment from Shaukat Khanum Hospital,one day his health got down and we rushed to the hospital, I was sitting on back seat as my uncle was driving the car, my father's head was in my arms ,on half way to hospital he got expired
Yes, I have witnessed someone close to me die.
My great-grandmother passed away of cancer about 15 years ago, and I held her hand as she closed her eyes peacefully and was taken up to Heaven. It was such a precious moment for me and I will remember if forever. I would like to go as peacefully as possible. I would hate to die some tragic violent death, then again, if that is God's will, then I will be accepting of it.
Can you share why Christians always assume that their passed relatives were 'taken up to Heaven'? The concept of 'being saved' as in the past tense is alien to Islam. We look toward Judgement Day with a balance of hope in God's promised mercy and fear of His wrath while Christians have 'blessed assurance' in their salvation through acceptance of Jesus as their atoning sacrifice. I know of no Muslim who would say, "If I died tonight I KNOW that I would go to Heaven.' Yet, I know many Christians who would readily make this claim. A most critical element in every deed is the intention behind it and who among us truly knows his own heart and innermost intention? If a Christian is ever 'saved', can he become unsaved?format_quote Originally Posted by patientgrace
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no i have never witnessed any one close to me die neither i have lost any one close to me.. i haven't seen a dead body in real.
I dont know why but i just fear death too much. when i hear some one known to me or my family died i fear visiting their home and i never go in the funeral gathering. i know i should go and these are actually the reminders for us.
Majority of people in Pakistan are afraid of dead while they should fear the living ones
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where do you live in pak? :s
Karachi.
that explains your response! Hope you're safe :S
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Lol... no i didn't mean that.Its not about whats going on around.Most of the People here are afraid of dead.They even stop newly weds visit the dead's house untill the dead body is there
I have only seen deaths on tv so far . I havent seen a single person die right infront of my eyes .
Death is always an amazing reminder,no matter how much you have been indulged in your life.Couldn't been able to see someone dying infront of me but i do take part in the last rites of the deceased one
Once I saw one small boy aged 9 or 10, was bumped by a jeep when he was riding a bike, and then he was thrown to the road shoulder and his head bumped on it, then he was just lying on the ground and blood came out slowly from his mouth. People gathered and some of them went and informed the boy's parents to come. I left since the things I saw were so sad for me to take.
All the parents, please let your boys wear helmet and protective gears when they are riding bikes, especially on the small streets where cars are running.
May Allah protect us all!
non-muslims may want to comment on this one. i'd like to hear their experiences of death. I read somewhere that it sometimes takes a person two weeks to die. two weeks or so in the throes of death! astaghfirrullah. in a hadith it is said that the death of a kafir is like putting cotton on a thorny bush and then trying to remove it from it - the cotton tears up and some cottone remains stuck to the thorns. [likewise, the kafir's soul, being afraid of what is to happen afterwards, hides in the body and refuses to come out. so it is torn into bits when being pulled out of the body.] On the otehr hand, the muslim's death is like opening a knot. [Knots are of different kinds, some open very easily and some are very hard to open and you may have to cut it to open it. In a similar way, some very righteous Muslim's soul leaves the body very easily, havig led a righteous life, it knows that it's results are good. While other muslims who are sinners are more afraid so their souls depart with more difficulty.]
It's happened when I was teenager in early of 80's. In a Saturday night, I drove my small truck with two friends and visited my another friend's house. When I was talking with the house owner, I heard someone greet me. I looked back and saw "O".
"Hey, you are here"
"Yes" he replied "I come with "I", ride motorcycle"
Then we talked for few moments, but suddenly I felt something strange on "O". I noticed him, but I could not know what was this something strange.
Then "O" left the house with "I", rode his motorcycle. Around a half hour later, I left the house too with my two friend, rode my truck.
Not so long when we passed a dark street we saw "I", stood on the street and called me. He was panic and crying. I stopped my truck and asked him.
"What's happen?".
"A truck hit us!"
"What? where is "O"?".
"I" didn't say anything but his finger pointed to a big truck near him. I didn't see the truck driver, but I saw "O" lie down on the street. He was dying when I reached him. We put him on my truck and I drove it as fast I could to the nearest hospital.
We arrived in the hospital and quickly brought him to emergency unit. But, doctors could not save his life. "O" died just a moment after we reached the hospital. And suddenly I realized what was the something strange on "O" that I've seen before.
There was dark shadow covered his face ...!!
"O" buried at Sunday. I attend in his burial, and I was crying there.
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a month before, i saw a dead body for the first time in my life. my aunt's mother in law. she was ill for years. i was scared to go to the room where they kept her body but my mom said i should go and see. she was lying on bed wrapped in white. it was hard to realize that it was just a body without soul. i could hear her coughing and breathing(she had breathing problems also).
may Allah SWT forgive her sins and enter her in jannah. ameen
i have seen 4 of my patients die in last 3 weeks. life has been unforgiving, for them, and for me.
^ inna lillahe wa inna elayhe rajion
we're all gng to return to Allah some day...
I've never seen anyone die in front of me.if I did I would never forget for the rest of my life. :s
it's a reminder for all of us tht one day we would go to may Allah forgive us all and He be pleased with us. ameen
My eyes are practically leaking
Losing a parent, i can't even imagine the pain
I have only experienced two losses in my life, my grandfather and my cousin sister and both times i was young so i did not feel many emotions, but the pain on my aunts face on the day of her daughters funeral was just horrible.
Death is inevitable and although it absolutely kills me to say this, i know my parents will one day depart from this world...and with the added health problems they both have i cant help but think its going to be soon.
I hope Allah keeps them safe and whatever happens.....its Allahs will
I saw my grand mother. I still remember that late night when I got a call from my uncle to ask my mom to call her again. I woke her up and came to know that grandma has fallen from the bed. My mom rushed to the hospital. I felt soo afraid thinking about what if she died. She was well for sometime but after some time my mom brought her to our for for taking care of her. I saw her getting shifted from the hospital with the bed. She had so many tubes connected all over her body. I felt soo bad when my mom supplied the fluid for her body through the tube. She had a oxygen cylinder and soo many days she was struggling for everything. Whenever anyone came to meet her her face lighted. After some days she was kept in the hospital and died there.
i was in the hospital when my grandfather passed away.
i saw cancer slowly destroy my best friend.
...he told my how it affected him and how he felt his family turn against him as the days passed.
i know it was the cancer but it changed the way i live my life.
and made me critical of all the things people put each other through.
may allah swt have mercy upon us.
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