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To Die Before Death: The Sufi Way of Life M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
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The relationships and parts of our lives that have died are too difficult. Hajj is in a sense, a way to die before death. So, for the most Ultimately, death, in whatever way it comes to us, means that we entrust all that we are and all that we have to God. The first inklings of my notion had actually arisen some years before, when a friend was dying of aggressive prostate cancer at less than sixty years of age (“The early birds are checking in,” he said of our generation). Then he motioned to me to go further and look, and I saw that the number of people going to heaven were few and the number of people going to hell were many. Language: English Released: 1997. The death of our loved ones is too real, too painful. Comprehending Life, Society And Other Esoteric Domains. Your quotation of the Hindu saying reminds me of a Sufi saying, “Die before you die. Dying of the temporal so that the eternal life must be gained. GO To Die Before Death: The Sufi Way of Life Author: M. It wasn't any kind of conviction about life after death, i.e., continuing on in the spirit realm, or passing into another form, or persisting as consciousness after the death of the body, none of which (at least when stated thus baldly) has ever had much resonance for me. We don't really acknowledge, talk about, and deal with death. Modern Sufis who embrace the idea of reincarnation include Bawa Muhaiyadeen (see his To Die Before Death: The Sufi Way of Life).