If I knew that my life would be this short, I would not have committed what I committed.
—Al-Mu’tasim when he was dying
Ath-Thabatu ‘Inda al-Mamat, by. bin al-Jauzi, p. 92
(Read on pg 64, Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Qasim, Silent Moments: The Description of Before & After Death Aspects. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2004.)