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14ـ الإمامُ زينُ العابدينَ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ لمّا سُئلَ عنِ المَوتِ ـ: لِلمؤمنِ كنَزعِ ثِيابٍ وَسِخَةٍ قَمِلَةٍ، وفَكِّ قُيودٍ وأغلالٍ ثَقيلَةٍ، والاستِبدالِ بأفخَرِ الثِّيابِ وأطيَبِها رَوائحَ، وأوطَاَء المَراكِبِ، وآنَسِ المَنازِلِ ؛ وللكافِرِ كخَلعِ ثِيابٍ فاخِرَةٍ، والنَّقلِ عن مَنازِلَ أنيسَةٍ، والاستِبدالِ بأوسَخِ الثِّيابِ وأخشَنِها، وأوحَشِ المَنازِلِ، وأعظَمِ العَذابِ. |
| 14– Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS), when asked about death said, ‘For a believer, it is like taking off dirty clothes, undoing shackles and heavy chains, and changing into the finest and most scented of clothes. It is the happiest of stations and the most comforting of abodes. As for the infidel, it is like taking off fine clothes, transferring from comfortable abodes, and changing into the dirtiest and roughest of clothes, the most terrifying of stations and the greatest of punishments.’[Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 289, no. 4] |
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15ـ الإمامُ الكاظمُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ لَمّا دَخَلَ على رجُلٍ قد غَرِقَ في سَكَراتِ المَوتِ ـ: المَوتُ هُو المَصْفاةُ يُصَفّي المؤمنينَ مِن ذُنوبِهِم فيكونُ آخِرُ ألَمٍ يُصيبُهُم كَفّارَةَ آخِرِ وِزرٍ بَقِيَ علَيهِم، ويُصَفّي الكافِرينَ مِن حَسَناتِهِم فيكونُ آخِرَ لَذّةٍ أو راحَةٍ تَلحَقُهُم، وهُو آخِرُ ثَوابِ حسَنَةٍ تكونُ لَهُم ... . |
| 15– Imam al-Kazim (AS), when he visited a person immersed in the pangs of death said, ‘Death is the purifier which purifies the believers from their sins, so it is the last pain that they are struck with as atonement for the last wrongdoing left in them. For the infidels, death strips them of their good deeds, so it is the last pleasure or leisure they will ever experience, and it will be the last reward of a good deed for them …’[Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 289, no. 6] |
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16ـ الإمام الجوادُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ لمّا سُئل عن المَوتِ ـ: هُو النَّومُ الّذي يأتيكُم كُلَّ ليلَةٍ إلّا أنّهُ طويلٌ مُدَّتُهُ لا يُنتَبَهُ مِنهُ إلّا يَومَ القيامَةِ، فمَن رأى في نَومِهِ من أصنافِ الفَرَحِ ما لا يُقادِرُ قَدرَهُ، ومِن أصنافِ الأهوالِ ما لا يُقادِرُ قَدرَهُ، فكيفَ حالُ فَرِحٍ في النَّومِ ووَجِلٍ فيهِ ؟ هذا هُو المَوتُ، فاستَعِدُّوا لَهُ. |
| 16– Imam al-Jawad (AS), when asked about death said, ‘It is the sleep that comes to you every night, however its period is long and none will wake from it until the Day of Resurrection. So he who sees in his sleep different kinds of happy states whose extent he cannot fathom and different kinds of terrors he cannot fathom, then how will the happiness and the dismay in death be? This is death so prepare for it.’[Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 289, no. 5] |
