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17ـ رسولُ اللهِِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): المَوتُ رَيحانَةُ المؤمنِ. |
| 17– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Death is the basil of a believer.’[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 42136] |
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18ـ رسولُ اللهِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): تُحفَةُ المؤمنِ المَوتُ. |
| 18– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The gift of a believer is death.’[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 42110] |
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19ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ في قولهِ تعالى: «لَهُمُ البُشْرى في الحَياةِ الدُّنيا» ـ: هُو أن يُبَشِّراهُ بالجَنّةِ عِند المَوتِ، يَعني محمّداً وعليّا ’ . |
| 19– Imam al-Sadiq (AS), with regard to Allah’s verse in the Qur’an: "For them is good news in the life of this world" [Qur’an 10:64], said, ‘It is that these two give them glad tidings of Heaven during their death, meaning Muhammad and Ali (AS).’[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 6, p. 191, no. 36] |
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20ـ الإمامُ الرِّضا (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ في عِيادَةِ رجُلٍ مِن أصحابهِ ـ: كيفَ تَجِدُكَ ؟ قالَ: لَقِيتُ المَوتَ بَعدَكَ ! ـ يُريدُ ما لَقِيَهُ مِن شِدَّةِ مَرَضِهِ ـ فقالَ: كيفَ لَقِيتَهُ ؟ فقالَ: أليما شَديدا، فقالَ: ما لَقِيتَهُ، إنّما لَقِيتَ ما يُنذِرُكَ بهِ ويُعرِّفُكَ بعضَ حالِهِ ... . |
| 20– Imam al-Rida (AS), when visiting one of his sick companions, asked, ‘How are you?’ He replied, ‘I have met death after you!’ referring to the pain he had endured from his intense sickness’, so he said, ‘How did you find it?’ He said, ‘Very painful.’ He (AS) said, ‘You have not met it, you have only met what is warning you of it and it is introducing you to some of its states…’[Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 289, no. 7] |
