"Man is asleep, and when he dies he awakens."
Muhammad, Hadith
Here is a very famous hadith, or saying, of the Prophet. I first came upon it when reading the commentary from Nast related to surah 18 in the Quran. So much of this particular surah, which I'll be talking about in much greater detail soon, deals with the transitional space between worlds, whether sleep and waking or between the human and divine spheres or between life and death. This particular hadith brings us back to the notion, quite common in Islam (and most religions, I guess) that the things in this world are temporary and unreal as compared to the eternal reality of the divine.
Muhammad, Hadith
Here is a very famous hadith, or saying, of the Prophet. I first came upon it when reading the commentary from Nast related to surah 18 in the Quran. So much of this particular surah, which I'll be talking about in much greater detail soon, deals with the transitional space between worlds, whether sleep and waking or between the human and divine spheres or between life and death. This particular hadith brings us back to the notion, quite common in Islam (and most religions, I guess) that the things in this world are temporary and unreal as compared to the eternal reality of the divine.
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