About bereavement and death of close relatives

 Just recently the eldest brother of my father Retired Colonel Muhammad  Siddiqi died. He just died three years after my father died in 2023. He was an intellectual and a great retired army colonel. He had great general knowledge and memory as he wrote a book on our family history. He was the one who built our house in DHA for me and my family and for his family.

He looked in considerable pain during his last days which was very sad for me and eventually Allah gave him death to relieve him of the pain. Allah has promised us in the Quran that he will not give us more pain that we cant bear. Everything has been predestined by Allah and even before we are born our age and place of death has already been decided by Allah.

This world is temporary and our hereafter is permanent. If a person is a good person with good deeds then he will surely meet the souls of close relatives who have died before his own death. In this way Colonel Siddiqi's soul might have met the souls of my father and his beloved wife.

In the end what I would like to say is that for a muslim and a believer death is a gift by Allah.

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