24th March 2011

Today was my first experience at observing the burial of a death. Although I have had relatives (arwah my father, grandmother, grandfather , uncles and aunts) who have passed away, I never attended their burial. But this particular death was different because it was of a friend’s stillborn child in a country far away from Malaysia. Despite feeling a little sad, I found myself thinking how so Merciful our Creator is that this dear soul is guaranteed a place in Allah’s Paradise, insyaAllah, away from all the wretchedness of this short term life…