Journey to Eternity

“Appoint for us from among the righteous works, a work through which we will feel the homecoming to You as slow and crave a quick joining with You, so that death may be our intimate abode with which we are intimate, our familiar place toward which we yearn, and our next of kin whose coming we love!

When You bring it to us and send it down upon us, make us happy with it as a visitor, comfort us with its arrival, make us not wretched through entertaining it, degrade us not through its visit, and appoint it one of the gates to Your forgiveness and the keys to Your mercy!

Make us die guided, not astray; obedient, not averse; repentant, not disobedient or persisting, O He who guarantees the repayment of the good-doers and seeks to set right the work of the corrupt!”

His Supplication when Someone’s Death was Announced to him or when he Remembered Death

Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-Abideen, peace be upon him
As-Sahifatul Al-Kamila as-Sajjadiyah