Oh Rabi’! This (Allah’s) is the true Kingship, not the kingship of someone who dies.

—Caliph Abu Ja’far al-Mansur to Ar-Rabi’ on his deathbed

Al-‘Aqibah, p. 128

(Read on pg 62, Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Qasim, Silent Moments: The Description of Before & After Death Aspects. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2004.)