Oh life, how delightful you are! Verily, your long is short and your abundant is minute; we were deceived by you.
—’Abdul-Malik b. Marwan describing the dunya on his deathbed
Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah, by ibn Kathir, vol. 9, p.75
(Read on pg 58-59, Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Qasim, Silent Moments: The Description of Before & After Death Aspects. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2004.)