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Your loved ones haven't left you.

They're just waiting for you.

Losing someone you love can feel final.

But what if the bond isn't truly severed?

What if you can still reach them?

Even beyond this world, there's a way to stay connected,

a link that death was never meant to break.

You know, was never meant to break. In the time of the Prophet,

there was a young man named Bishir Ibn al-Baraa

from Banu Salama.

And he passed away, leaving his mother extremely distraught.

So she comes to the Prophet,

Sallah, and she says,

Yeah, Rassul-Lah, those of Banu Salama who continue to die,

can I send greetings to my son Bishr with them?

And the Prophet

Sallallah a aubh responded and said, yes, I swear by he in whose hand is my soul,

Ya, um Bishar, the deceased know one another like birds upon a branch. And after that,

no one would die from Bani Bishalam except that Um Bishir would go try to catch them quickly before they die

and would say, Iqra on Bishrin' Salam, convey my salam to my son Bishr.

I always tell people who lose their loved ones, think of yourselves merely at a station,

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