Life and Death
one's life in remembrance of the true benefactor
If half of one's life is spent in remembrance of the true benefactor and the other half in ignorance, then half of his life is considered as life and the other half as death.
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Learn lessons and value them
We must take lessons from the past generations
We must take lessons from the past generations in that we too, like them, are close to death; and we should not be under the false impression that the four days of our remaining life would be four hundred thousand years!
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One must not become proud
As long as satan is alive, man is in danger
We must not become proud! Until the time of death, and as long as satan is alive, man is in danger. We seek refuge in God.
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Journeying through purgatory
We are heedless of death!
Every night, we journey through purgatory without having any authority, yet we are heedless of death!
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Man’s heedlessness of death
How close man is to death
How close man is to death, yet how far does he see it from himself and is heedless of it!
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Good state at the time of death
Nicely welcoming in the hereafter
Felicitous are those who die in a good state, and are welcomed nicely in the hereafter!
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His Last Words with his Wife
The Forty-fifth Story
For a few days, he kept talking about death.
That day when he was about to go to his room, he turned to my mother and said,
-“Do you know such and such a person in Fuman?”
-Yes....
