Table of Contents

Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Notes to Introduction; Part One: 1. On the Remembrance of Death, and an Encouragement to Remember it Abundantly; 2. On Lengthy Hopes, and the Merit of Brief Hopes together with the Reason for their Prolongation, and how this may be Cured; 3.On the Agonies and Violence of Death, and the States Preferable upon its Advent; 4. On the death of the Emissary of God (may God bless him and grant him peace), and of the Rightly-guided Caliphs after him; 5. On the Sayings of the Caliphs, Princes and Righteous Men when Nearing Death; 6. On the Sayings of the Gnostics at Funerals and Cemeteries, and the Legal Verdict concerning the Visitation of Graves; 7. On the True Nature of Death, and what the Dead Man Undergoes in the Grave prior to the Blast on the Trump; 8. On the States of the Dead which have been known through Unveiling ('mukashafa') in Dreams; Part Two: The Trumpet-Blast; The Land and People of the Concourse; The Perspiration; The Length of the Day of Arising; The Day of Arising, and its Calamities and Names; The Inquisition; The Scales; The Adversaries, and the Restoration of Wrongs; The Traverse; The Intercession; The Pool; The Inferno, and its Terrors and Torments; Heaven, and the Varieties of its Bliss; The Number of the Gardens; The Wall of Heaven, its Land, Trees and Rivers; The Raiment of Heaven's People and their Furnishings, Beds, Divans and Tents; The Food of Heaven's People; The Large-eyed Houris and the Pages; An Exposition of a Diverse Group of the Attributes of Heaven's People for which Accounts are Forthcoming; The Beatific Vision, and the Beholding of the Countenance of God (Blessed and Exalted is He!); A Chapter on the Wide Compass of God's Mercy; Notes; Appendix: Persons cited in text; Index to Qur'anic quotations; Qur'anic chapter titles cited; Bibliography; General Index.

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