Have you ever come across someone who seemed to “know” they were going to leave the world very soon? It’s peculiar. I have come across a few people like that in my lifetime, and it never ceases to amaze and scare me. I’ve also heard stories from relatives about other relatives or friends that had this intuition about their own demise.
My mother told me the story of a relative of mine. One she knew. This relative was in her 60’s or early 70’s and lived life normally as everyone else does. But just about a month before her passing she started doing strange things. She was in fine health for someone her age so nobody really noticed anything different about her, but my mother noticed probably because she spent some time with her. She noticed her taking out her fine clothes and whatever else and giving them to her daughters and daughter-in-laws. Then she noted that she insisted upon meeting old friends whom she hadn’t met in a long long time. She made rounds to their homes in Pakistan. She talked to each of her children in length, about different things, and passed on her love to each of them. About a month after all this, she departed from this world, from a heart attack. My mother told me how odd it must have been to sort of have a hint that one is going. But my mom said in a way it was a blessing so that she had the time to do all that she did.
Another story is that of another close relative of mine. He was also in his late 70’s or 80’s and in fairly decent health for someone his age. Sure the hearing was getting weaker along with the eyesight but that was expected. About a month before he passed he called his closest of kin and gave them a long loving lecture, passed on his love, and stated that this may be the last time he ever speaks to them again, until the next life. Three weeks later he passed away. Nobody expected it because it was sudden for someone with so much vitality at his age. It was a bit of a shock for me. Both incidents were, but this one in particular because I had met him long ago.
There are other stories as well that run along a similar theme to these. I think to myself sometimes, how scary, but at the same time I wonder if it is a blessing in some way to know that soon your time will be up. One wonders if they could handle such knowledge without having a nervous breakdown. This isn’t to say that they knew for sure the exact time, or even that they knew at all, perhaps it was a guess, I’m not sure, but either way, it is perplexing and makes one think.
Have you ever come across such? Your thoughts? Comments? Thanks.
My Dad's grandmother was like in 80s or 90s , she saw a dream where she was trying to get on a suzuki, a women from inside the suzuki was calling her to come quick or the suzuki will leave...all the people inside the suzuki she saw in the dream were dead people whom she knew. IF I remember right my greatgrandma managed to get into that suzuki in her dream.
She told this dream to some relative, later on she then made some pakoras drank water and went to sleep but never woke up. I guess it was heart attack.
Hayaa... its possible that your just worried about all that is going on in the world. the violence in particular. I know I have those dreams if I watch CNN before I go to sleep.
They say if you see yourseld dying in a dream... you life get longer.
It usually a dream that shows you interacting or in one way or another connecting with your dead loved ones that signals death.
A few days before my naana passed away my mum dreamt of him in white clothes. His clothes caught fire which my mum put out. Then he sat in a white car which had other people dressed in white too and they all drove off. A few days later my nana had an operation for a tumor which all went well but the same night his bp dropped way too low and he passed away
My naani did some strange things b4 she died. About 3 days ago my mum and khaala went to visit her at my mamoo’s place. It had been a long time since they both went together. So my naani started saying stuff like y do u lot not come more often. I’ll die soon and then you will regret it. Then she asked them to prepare her ‘kaffan’ saying ‘mein marr jaaongi tau tum logon koi koi hosh nahi ho ga. Acha hei ke pehlay se tayyaar ho’. She died three days later of a heart attack.
FUNNY how these people had intuitions about death and they were trying spend time with loved ones. if i knew i was gonna die soon, i would spend every second praying, knowing that this was all the time i had left, i'd say "screw the rest of the world". my dad says that a persons true character is determined before they die. if their heart was in the duniya they will look for the duniya before they die, and if their heart was truly in Allah, thats where their heart will be before they die. Im not sayign ur guys's relatives weren't religous or ne thing just speaking in general. ne howz, like a day or two before my uncle died, he told this person that when he died he wanted him to perform ghuzul on his body, and he told him the whole islamic way of doing it. he even reserved his grave. and than he died the best death possible. In ramadan, in the masjid, in sajddah he died. amazing isn't it? well thast where his heart all ways was, he was all ways doing ibbadat, adn crying, and he never wasted time in stupid politics, he spent that time praying. he was a heart patient and he would walk to teh masjid in the winter in negative temp if he didn't have a ride. and that day it was a ifftar party, the whole family was there, no one would take him to the masjid bc it was too cold. but he went with some guest that was over, and nobody even knew he was gone, until the phone came. it was like he knew it was coming.
Femme, its the worst when you visit someone and they tell you that you didnt spend enough time with them. That was the last thing my dada told me when I left Pakistan on vacation there. I never saw him again. sad
I'M THE BEST, I think what my relatives did was a very important thing. Because they went around asking forgiveness from others for anything they may have done or said that the other person didnt like, among other things. We have a duty to Allah, and a duty to other people. People dont forgive as easily as Allah does. So I also would try to set things straight with others, say my goodbyes, and then pray. But thats just me. Assuming I even got the chance.
By the way my naana and naani never missed a single namaz in their lives. They were both extremely religious people. Both remained regular with prayers and reciting the Quran till their last breath. If they couldn't perform sajda they would sit and say their namaz. Naana never missed even his tahajjud prayers. They were much revered and respected not just by family but acquaintances too. I think it takes a certain confidence and surity to be fearless at the time of death. They knew they had fulfilled all their duties towards people and God. Life was always meant to be balanced between this world and the next and they maintained that till the end.
I understand ur point FF, I didn’t mean to upset u or ne one else:blush: . I guess for someone like me, I would need every bit of savab i can get if I were to die soon, since I can hardly count my good deeds on my fingers. ne how I also understand ur point about saying sorry to people. i never thought about that before, good point. thanx.
munni my ami says that its is a kind of instinct thing for some ppl. like b4 my nani died ( my mother was 18) she had a dream to do with nani amma and it was about her death basicly. though my ami did not understand it. b4 my nani died she looked up as if she knew she was gona die ( my nani died infront of ami). b4 nana died my mum had a dream about a year b4 too, again she did not understand it. afew of the elder ladies who came to see my nana when he was ill knew that he was gona die soon because the 'noor' in his eyes was gone and he died after 2 days. thing is he only had a temp like he had had temp many times b4.
oh and my greatgrand mother was fine too the last minute. she started doing some wierd stuff like wouldnt take her medicen she had to be told to take them. on the nigth she died she pretended to take the medicen but left it in the glass of water. there was other wierd stuff too but i cant remmber.
one of my dad's client's oldest son died in a car accident and the guy was saying that for a month i had been thinking wat would be the most devastating thing for me... his question was answered.
i know this is slightly not realated to ur topic but its about ppl knowing or having some kind of a feeling about someone close to them dieing :p .
my friend's grandfather, told to us by my friend's dad, was the popular hakeem hashmi saheb, and the day he died, before going out for his usual walk, he told his children to get his "kafan" out (that he had already bought) and keep it ready....
maybe Allah does give a hint to His good people so they can get time to ask for forgiveness....
i used to have these feelings that i am gonna die...no like seriuolsy i would sit there and pray for forgiveness which was offcourse a good thing and then tell my mom too who woould roll her eyes n everyone i told never took it seriously :-/ i guess thats why i never died :p
