If I thought that I would live one more month, I would feel that I committed a major error! How can I hope for this time, when I see afflictions descending on the creations day and night?

—Dawud at-Tai

(al-’Aqibah, p. 67)

(Read on pg 120, Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Qasim, Silent Moments: The Description of Before & After Death Aspects. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2004.)