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by Ibn Al-Qayyim RA

"Why, but when the soul reaches the throat of the dying and at that moment you are watching - and We are nearer to him than you, but you do not see us." [Al-Waqiah]

When someone dies, the Angel of Death comes to take his soul, no matter where he is. The dying person sees him, hears him, and speaks to him, but not with his eyes, his ears, or his tongue. How then? I do not know exactly. All I do know is that when he begins to move to another world, he sees, hears, and speaks, by some means which we, the living, do not perceive. Many instances of this have been recorded:

Ibn Abi'd-Dunya mentions that on the day 'Umar bin Abdul-Aziz died, he said to those with him, 'Sit with me.' When they sat down next to him, he said, 'I am the one You commanded and I failed you. You forbade me and I rebelled.' He said this three times. Then he said, 'But there is no god but Allah.' Then he lifted his head and stared. They said, 'You are looking very intently, Amir al-Mu'minin.' He replied, 'I see a presence which is neither man nor jinn.' Then he died.

Fadala bin Dinar said, 'I was with Muhammad bin Wasi' when he was very near to death. He began to say, "Welcome to my Lord's angels! There is no strength nor power except by Allah!" I smelled the sweetest fragrance that I had ever melled. Then his eyes glazed over and he died.'

Why do I need to look so far into the past, to the days of the first Muslims? I myself was present at the moment of someone's death in our own time. I was with my grandmother when she was dying. It was at the time of the Dawn Prayer. She was in pain and gasping for breath, moaning from the intensity of the pain but in spite of that, she kept repeating with great joy, 'Allah! Death is sweet!' and saying the Shahada over and over for several minutes. Then it was all over. This is where our job, those of us who are still alive, begins. read more

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* Family celebrate Pippie's ‘miracle’ skin - When nurses told Anice Kruger that the first of the dressings had come off, revealing perfect pink skin beneath, the stress she had been under showed.

* Go after syndicate, says drug mule’s family - The family of a South African woman sentenced to 15 years in a Thailand prison for drug trafficking have called on SA authorities to investigate the circumstances that led to her imprisonment.

* State pushes ahead in booze fight - The government is going ahead with its ban on alcohol advertising and marketing, saying the negative effects of excessive drinking outweighed the possible loss of jobs due to the ban.

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2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
3 tsp baking powder
2 eggs (beaten)
125g butter
1 cup milk

Filling:
½ kg cooked steak
1 cup carrots
½ cup peas
Home made tomato chutney
Beaten egg
Dried parsley

Method:
Mix the dry ingredients together, add eggs to form a soft dough with milk. Divide into two parts. Take one part and place on a greased, square pan. Add the cooked steak, boiled carrots and peas. Add some tomato chutney. Cover with remaining dough. Brush with beaten egg, sprinkle with parsley and bake at 180 C for +- 30 minutes till golden brown.

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