🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance
Gloomy good news of meeting the beloved
بشرى الكئيب بلقاء الحبيب
Author: عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر، جلال الدين السيوطي (المتوفى: 911هـ) (d. 911)
About this work
هذا الكتاب هو "بشرى الكئيب بلقاء الحبيب" للكاتب السيوطي، يتناول موضوع الموت وآثاره على المؤمنين، مبيناً فضله عليهم وكونه خروجاً من الدنيا إلى دار الخلد، ويذكر فيه أحوال الموتى في قبورهم وما يلقونه من ترحيب وكرامة، ويشير إلى أن الموت بالنسبة للمؤمنين تحفة وغنيمة وكفارة، ويصفه بكونه خروجاً من سجن الدنيا إلى عالم آخر أفضل.
Translation
This book is “Gloomy Good News of the Meeting of the Beloved” by the writer Al-Suyuti. It deals with the subject of death and its effects on believers, explaining its virtue upon them and its being a release from this world to the abode of eternity. It mentions the conditions of the dead in their graves and the welcome and dignity they receive. It points out that death for believers is a masterpiece, a spoil, and an atonement, and describes it as a release from the prison of this world to another, better world.
Topics covered
- Author's introduction
- Mention the virtue of death
- And it is better than life
- He mentioned that death is a transition
- From a narrow house to a spacious house
- Mention what a believer encounters when he takes his soul
- Of dignity
- Mention of spirits meeting the dead
- If his spirit comes out and they meet him and ask about him
- Mention of identifying the dead person as to who washes and prepares him
- Mention of heaven and earth crying over the dead
- Mention of easing the burden on the believer in the grave
- Mention of welcoming the believer into the grave
- Mention what the believer receives good news when asking Munkar and Nakir
- Mention of the pain of a believer in his grave
- Mention of the dead praying in their graves
- He mentioned reading the dead in their graves
- He mentioned the angels teaching the believer the Qur’an in his grave
- Mention of the believer’s clothing in his grave
- Mention of the believer's bed in his grave
- He mentioned visiting the dead in their graves
- Remind the dead of their visitors and make them feel comfortable with them
- Mention of the seat of spirits
- Mention of breastfeeding and custody of believers’ children
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