Illness and death
33 chapters
Illness and death is a section of al-Adhkar by Imam al-Nawawi. As its title indicates, its subject is illness, death and what is connected to them. In this app the entries appear as individual articles, and each article is attributed to its source, the Shamela edition of al-Adhkar edited by Arna'ut. There are 109 entries in this section, listed as they stand within it. What you read here is framing only; the articles themselves are inside the section. Everything works offline, so you can read it whenever you wish, wherever you are.
- 1Encouragement to remember death often1
- 2Asking after the sick and how to answer1
- 3What the sick say, what is said to them, and what is recited15
- 4Advising the sick person's family and carers to be kind and patient1
- 5What to say with headache, fever or other pain1
- 6The sick person may say they are in great pain, without complaint3
- 7Wishing for death: disliked due to harm, allowed to fear for faith1
- 8Praying to die in a sacred city1
- 9Encouraging and comforting the sick person1
- 10Praising the sick for their good deeds to ease their fear4
- 11Encouraging the sick to want food and drink2
- 12A visitor asking the sick person for du'a1
- 13Reminding the recovered person to keep their vow to Allah1
- 14What to say when one has lost hope of living7
- 15What to say when closing the eyes of the deceased2
- 16What is said beside the deceased3
- 17What to say to one whose relative has died4
- 18What to say on hearing of a friend's death1
- 19What to say on hearing of the death of an enemy of Islam1
- 20The prohibition of wailing over the dead and of pre-Islamic lament9
- 21Condolence (ta'ziya)8
- 22Informing the family of a death; disliking public announcements4
- 23What is said while washing and shrouding the dead2
- 24Dhikr in the funeral prayer8
- 25What to say when walking with the funeral procession1
- 26What to say when lowering the body into the grave1
- 27What to say after burial6
- 28The deceased's wishes on the funeral prayer, burial and shroud3
- 29What benefits the deceased from the words of others3
- 30The prohibition of insulting the dead5
- 31What to say when visiting graves5
- 32Telling a visitor who weeps excessively at a grave to be patient2
- 33Weeping and fear when passing the graves of wrongdoers1
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