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A letter,

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BismiLLAHirrahmanirrahim. Assalamualaikum warahmatuLLAHi wabarakatuh. Something, not by me , to ponder upon: "As for what follows, I am writing a letter to you in which I do not hold back right guidance and I do not omit counsel. It contains the praise of ALLAH Almighty and the adab  of HIS Messenger s.a.w. So consider that with your intellect, turn your eyes to it, and devote your hearing to it. Understand it with you intellect and apply your understanding. Do not allow your mind to let it slip away. It contains excellence in this world and the good reward of ALLAH Almighty in the Next. Remind yourself of the throes of death and its grief, and what will happen to you when it comes, and what you know follows after death: being presented before ALLAH Almighty, and then the Reckoning, and then remaining forever either in the Garden of the Fire. Prepare for it something to make the terrors of those sights and their distress easy for you. If you were to see...