{"id":11394,"date":"2025-06-09T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=11394"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:01:14","slug":"life-without-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=11394","title":{"rendered":"Life Without End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201c<em>the angels will come to them from every door\/ may you be blessed with peace for that which you endured<\/em>\u201d<br><br>If grief could die<br>It would die of this grief <br>The moon and the sun would crack <br>Heartbroken, they\u2019d fall into the sea <br>What life is this? <br>That joy and sorrow walk as one <br>This is no life, they whispered <br>Those knowers of the One<br><br>This is life, she whispered, <br>life without end<br>Over here, beyond these veils <br><br>There at days end, <br>When the work is done <br>We will gather, one by one<br>And relax in pleasing shade<br>beneath the throne of the One<br>All our sorrows will be done<br><br>Fathers and mothers<br>Brothers and sisters<br>Daughters and sons<br>We will lay down our grief<br>All our toil will be done<br>Hand in hand, <br>we\u2019ll pass through those gates<br>Never again to sweat<br>beneath the heat of the sun<br><br>laughing we will gather, our hearts as one<br>remember these seemingly endless days<br>Marching one after the other, <br>measured against the sea of infinity<br>Won\u2019t they seem less than one<br>Year, one <br>month, one <br>rotation of the earth <br>Before the sun<br>This was never your home, baby girl<br>Rest now, <br>your work is done<br><br>Join the ranks of Aasiyah, Safiyyah <br>Ummu Yasir and Maryam and Khadijah <br>Take your home beneath the throne of the One<br><br>Our cheeks are soaked, <br>our eyes bloodshot<br>though grief chokes us<br>We bow our heads and submit to the One<br>He gave us life and gave us death<br>And He gave us life again <br>Eternal and everlasting, life without end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cthe angels will come to them from every door\/ may you be blessed with peace for that which you endured\u201d If grief could dieIt would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","wpcat-63-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11437,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions\/11437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}