Once Hazrat Hasan Basri رحمه الله accompanied a Janaazah. After the burial he cried profusely and said;
“O People! Know that the end of this world and the beginning of the Hereafter are this grave. The Hadīth says that the Qabr is a station among the stations of the Aakhirah. Why do you love a world whose end is the grave? Why do you not fear the world of the Aakhirah, the beginning of which is the grave? This is your ending and your beginning.”
(SOURCE: SCATTERED PEARLS – pages 30/31)
REFLECTIONS
We need to ask ourselves as to what is our behaviour when attending funerals. Do we create the conviction within ourselves that one day, we too are going to be placed in our graves? Have we reminded ourselves that we will enter into the abode of the Aakhirah with nothing but our deeds? Do we take stock of our actions and reflect if our graves will be a garden of Jannah or a pit of Jahannum?
We are compelled to acknowledge the fact that the day we are going to leave this world is near. Intelligence demands that we make the necessary preparations for our guaranteed departure.