09/06/2026
That commander of mankind, the Prophet ﷺ, has spoken the truth:
“No one who has passed beyond this world feels pain or regret or loss because of death, but he has a hundred regrets for what he let slip by”:
“Why did I not make death my kiblah (orientation), death [and the eternal abode beyond it] which is the treasury of every good fortune and provision?
Why out of blindness did I make the kiblah of my whole life those fantasies that disappeared at the appointed hour?”
The regret of the dead does not stem from death, it arises because they stopped at the pictures:
“We did not see that all this was paintings and foam: Foam takes its provision and fodder from the Sea.”
— Rumi, Mathnawi VI: 1450-55, trans W. Chittick, Sufi Path of Love