{"id":2442,"date":"2011-11-18T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T05:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2011-11-11T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T10:06:31","slug":"die-before-your-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/die-before-your-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Die Before Your Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/clouds.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2443\" title=\"clouds\" src=\"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/clouds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/clouds.jpg 543w, https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/clouds-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tell me I can get lost<br \/>\nTell me I can lose myself in your Presence<br \/>\nIn the overwhelming moment of real submission<br \/>\nTell me I can remain forever broken<br \/>\nIn You<br \/>\nFor You<br \/>\nWith You.<br \/>\nTell me I can remain here forever<br \/>\nAway, while still here.<br \/>\nDid not the Prophet say: \u201cdie before your death\u201d?<br \/>\nAt first I thought maybe it was only a reminder to remember our meeting with You.<br \/>\nBut then I thought how I wish I could die before my death:Have a soul that is no longer in this life\u2014even while the body must remain.<br \/>\nA heart that is freed from the shackles of dunya\u2014even while the body must walk its streets.<br \/>\nHave a nafs that is in complete rest and satisfaction with its\u2019 Lord, even while the crumbling shell remains.<br \/>\nA soul that is already there\u2014even before it is there.<br \/>\nA soul detached.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yasminmogahed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>-Yasmin Mogahed<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A nafs mutmainah\u2014in the truest and deepest and realest sense (Quran 89:27)<\/strong><br \/>\nFor as the great scholar said, rahimahuAllah, \u201c<strong>He\u00a0who does not enter the paradise of this life, will not enter the paradise of the next.\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me I can get lost Tell me I can lose myself in your Presence In the overwhelming moment of real submission Tell me I can remain forever broken In You For You With You. Tell me I can remain here forever Away, while still here. Did not the Prophet say: \u201cdie before your death\u201d? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[585,1087,694,1063,693,1088],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-perspective","tag-breaking","tag-islamic-poem","tag-islamic-poetry","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-yasmin-mogahed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}