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Healing After Loss: Consoling The Bereaved by Imam Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti

BOOK CONTENTS

TTRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

BIOGRAPHY OF IMAM AL-SUYOTI

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: DEATH

• The Merit of Death and its Being Better than Life
• Death is a Transition from a Constriction Expansive World
• The Honour a Believer Receives when His Soul is Taken.
• Past-Souls Meet the Deceased when His Soul exits His Body, Gather Around Him and Ask Him Questions .
• The Deceased Recognizes those Who Wash Him and Prepare His Body
• The Heavens and the Earth Weep Over the Deceased

CHAPTER TWO: THE GRAVE

• The Constriction of the Grave will be Lightened for the Believer
• The Expansion of the Grave for the Believer
• The Glad-Tidings Received by a Believer at the Questioning of Munkar and Nakit aff
• The Pain of the Believer in His Grave
• The Salah of the Deceased in the Grave
• The Recitation of the Qur an by the Deceased in the Grave
• The Angels Teach the Believer the Qur’an in His Grave
• The Garment of a Believer in His Grave
• The Bedding of the Believer in His Grave.
• ‘The Deceased Visit Each Other in the Grave
• The Deceased Recognise their Visitors and Derive Comfort from their Company

CHAPTER THREE: RESTING PLACES .

• The Resting Place of the Souls
• Believing-Infants are Suckled and Nursed in Paradise.