We used to join in a funeral procession and fail to recognize who was receiving condolences, for many people would be weeping for their own selves, not only for the dead!

—al-A’mash

(Read on pg 91, Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Qasim, Silent Moments: The Description of Before & After Death Aspects. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2004.)