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To ask Allah for a good ending is to live a good life and it's to seek a good beginning of the afterlife

The believer doesn't necessarily focus on the realm that they're currently in they worry about the relationship

They have with the creator of all realms

So he seeks a way in it and out of it that is pleasing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

But that request for a good ending has to be sincere and truthful and it has to speak to the way

That you actually live your life. The Prophet salallahu alayhi sallam told a man who was very specific about how he wanted to die

Shaheed

Ustukhillah yasdukh be truthful with Allah and he will be truthful with you

And we know how Omar radiAllah ta'alaan who was so specific when he asked Allah not just to die Shaheed

But to die Shaheed in Medina which didn't seem likely at the time

But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made it so that he would be stabbed while leading salah in the

Masjid of the Prophet salallahu alayhi sallam in Medina and these are not just distant stories of the past

Sheikh Kisq, Rahimullah who was a famous preacher in Egypt

He used to always make this du'a from the men but from the pulpit

Allah ma'ahiyani imama wa amitani imama wa ashurani wa anasaj

Yidun baina yadek ayah al-anameen

Allah allow me to live as an imam

Allow me to die as an imam and resurrect me while I'm making sujood

prostrating to you

And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala granted him death in his sujood on a Friday

Imagine being resurrected in Sajda

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