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The joys of death
Death for a true-beliver is a Joyous ascent to regions above, and not a fall.
The Roman philosopher and orator Cicero said:
"I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home." The Persian poets have called this world "Sarai Fani", the transient inn.
Ovid says;
"Souls have no death and their former abode being left they ever live and dwell in new habitations." "Free thyself from the fear of Death" says Seneca. Another poet Henry Vaughan exclaims:
"Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the Just." death is a thing of beauty; for one who is just and jewel, a precious possession.
Henry Longfellow speaks of death in strains below:"There is no Death! what seems so is transition: This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
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Whose portal we call Death."
According to him, and to many others, there is life after Death. What is called Death is but a portal to Life.
Shelley in queen Malb says:"How wonderful is Death!"
What is called pious, it is a
Shaikh Ibrahim Zauq, the poet-laureate of Delhi sings the same song: Mazey jo maut ke ashiq kabhee bayau kartey, Maseeh-o-Khizr bhi marney ki arzu kartey."
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If lovers were to detail the joys of death, the immortal Messiah and Elias also would have longed to die.
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"Hai navaid-i-zindgi laee quaza merey liye,
Log kahtey hon fana par hai baque merey liye. Death has brought to me the good tidings of life. People may call this destruction, for me it is immortality."
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