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Your grandmother was always very good to us and life wasn't enough to repay her kindness. Do you remember when she used to send the sausages and the pork meat? For her, it was a daily...ordinary act, for us was the answer of many of our prayers in difficult times. Only sensitive Spirits hear the voice of the Lord and my 5 children always knew that many times the Lord answered our prayers through her. |
Surely We are God's and to God is our return.
Condolences for your loss. May God The Compassionate rest her soul.
I lost all of my Grandparents a couple of years ago. My biggest regret is that I never showed them the respect and love they deserved. A regret that haunts me to this day. Once you realise how important they were it always seems too late.
Death is a powerful reminder to Humans as to where we are headed. As they say "Know that you are dust and to dust you will return".
There is a beautiful supplication regarding death I just wanted to post it here since I found it very comforting:
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O God, Bless Muhammad and his Household, spare us drawn out expectations and cut them short in us through sincerity of works, that we may not hope expectantly for completing an hour after an hour, closing a day after a day, joining a breath to a breath, or overtaking a step with a step! Keep us safe from the delusions of expectations, make us secure from their evils, set up death before us in display. and let not our remembering of it come and go! Appoint for us from among the righteous works a work through which we will feel the homecoming to Thee as slow and crave a quick joining with Thee, so that death may be our intimate abode with which we are intimate, our familiar place toward which we yearn, and our next of kin whose coming we love! When Thou bringest it to us and sendest it down upon us, make us happy with it as a visitor, comfort us with its arrival, make us not wretched through entertaining it, degrade us not through its visit, and appoint it one of the gates to Thy forgiveness and the keys to Thy mercy! Make us die guided, not astray, obedient, not averse, repentant, not disobedient or persisting, O He who guarantees the repayment of the good-doers and seeks to set right the work of the corrupt! |
Your Grandmother seemed like she was a wonderful person. There are not very many people like that. I truly believe that there are special people in this world like your Grandmother who are sent by God to this world to help others just like Angels. I know you will really miss her. My sympathy goes out to you, although you already know that she's home again. May she rest in peace.