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The people attending his funeral heard a voice from the direction of the house saying, “Peace be upon you, people of the house, and God’s mercy and blessings. In God is comfort from every calamity, and He is what remains after everything perishes, and He is what is reached after all that is missed, so be conscious of God, and wish for him. For truly the one who is in calamity is deprived of forgiveness.”

No one grasped what he said except Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه‎), whose eyes overflowed with tears and he cried out, “We would sacrifice our fathers and mothers, ourselves and our wealth for you, O Messenger of God!” The Prophet ﷺ then descended from the pulpit and he did not last an hour longer.

During his final illness, the Prophet ﷺ entered his mosque with his head wrapped in a cloth and he ascended the pulpit and said, “By the One who holds my soul in His Hand, I surely can see the Fountain from my station! A servant has been offered the world and its ornaments and he chose the other world.”

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Anas (رضي الله عنه‎) said, “The Messenger of God ﷺ had a clear complexion, his veins were like pearls, and when he walked he bent forward. I have not touched brocade or silk softer than the palm of the Prophet’s ﷺ hand, or smelt musk or ambergris sweeter than the Prophet’s ﷺ odour.”

“The relationship between me and the prophets who came before me is as the analogy of a man who built a beautiful house, but in which the space of one brick was left incomplete. The onlookers go around it, admiring the beauty its construction, with the exception of the place of that brick. Now I have filled up the place of that brick: in me the building is completed, and in me the messengers are completed.”

“I am the closest to Jesus, son of Mary, among the whole of mankind in this worldly life and the next. Prophets are brothers in faith, having different mothers. Their religion is one, and there is no prophet between me and him.”

“I am nothing but a mercy given freely.”

“So if you are able to not be among the children of this world, then do so! For today you are in the adobe of action without reckoning, and tomorrow you will be in the adobe of reckoning without action”

“What I fear most for my community is vain desire and wishful thinking. As for desire, it prevents from you from the Truth. As for wishful thinking, it makes you forget the other world. Know that this world is in motion, and it is receding; and the other world is in motion, and it is approaching; and each world has its children.”

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“You see the believers in their mutual mercy, love and, affection like one body. When one member suffers, the rest of the body inclines towards it with sleeplessness and fever”

“Modesty is from faith, and faith is of paradise. Obscenity is from hardness of the heart, and hardness is of Hell”

Jahimah came to the prophet ﷺ and said, “Messenger of God, I want to go on a military expedition and I have come to consult you.” The prophet ﷺ asked if his mother was alive. When he replied that she was, he said to him, “Stay with her, for paradise is at her feet.”