The Faithful Departed

Salam,

All praise be to Allah SWT for inspiring me to write this piece of mind.

This is a work of fiction.

so many people close to me had passed on over the years. relatives and friends. the most heart-crunching passing was of course of Mak - my late mother, who passed away in 1995. 

as we live our lives, people around us get really sick and passed on. it's a sad thing, especially when we're close with them. what's sad about it is the 'missing'. missing the faithful departed, which is an attribute wired to us human beings.

as we grow older, our uncles and aunts began to leave us. maybe some friends too. that's understandable because we have learned to accept the fact that their time has come, by Allah's Will. 

some of my friends have their own kids leaving them. i can only imagine what great sadness to have them outliving their children. 

sometimes when we see our older loved ones getting sick, such as an untreatable cancer, we pray to Allah SWT and hope against hope for the best but we expect the worse because logic tells us that he or she might not survive - it takes a miracle for that to happen. all we can do is to make him or her as comfortable as possible and for Muslims, apart from all that, we remind them of Allah SWT, as they're leaving us to be with Allah SWT.

insha Allah. Amin. Then again, we must have faith in Allah SWT, for Allah SWT is the Most Beneficient, the Most Merciful. Everything that happens, conscious or unconscious is by Allah SWT's Will.  

i'd like to think of it as the ending of a long suffering. sure i'm sad. i weep too. but thinking objectively, the suffering has ended for Mak, for instance. all i can hope and pray for is for her soul to be peaceful in the afterlife, with Allah SWT's blessing. i miss her, her company, her cooking and how unique the love she has towards her kids.  

sometimes i dream of her... she coming back to life out of nowhere.. not in a white gown. but in her ordinary kebaya labuh. she didn't say much though. she just smiled while i blabbered about my marriages, my children, my siblings and when she told me that she had to go, i woke up teary-eyed.

one day our time shall come too. some say that we need to prepare for it, write a will, get some hibah done, do lotsa good, save money for the family, and most importantly to live the way Allah SWT has guided us to as revealed to us in the Al-Qur'an and Rasulullah SAW's hadith. 

it'll be good to leave a legacy. but if we don't have one, that's alright. what matters is that we have touched people's lives - with our love, our care, what we taught, how we have helped plus - most importantly - our relationship with the Allah SWT.

i'm not offering any conclusions on this post. you may make your own - based on your own thoughts, which could probably be triggered by some of the things i write here, and also with guidance from Allah SWT.

Life is for the living and may the faithful departed rest in eternal peace. May Allah SWT bless Mak and all His servants in this life and in the hereafter. Amin ya Rabbal Alamin. 

Allah SWT knows best.

May we all be guided by Allah SWT, insha Allah. Amin.

Peace,

Wassalam,

FbI