Inna lillahi Wa inna ilaihi Rajioon

Inna lillahi Wa inna ilaihi Rajioon- To God we belong and to Him we will return. Surah Al Baqara- Verse 156.

A colleagues grandfather passed away today, she found out while she was in the office and was obviously very distraught. It's hard losing any member of your family or a friend, but losing a grandparent, someone who was head of the family can throw the whole family into disarray.
I lost one of my 'grandfathers' just under a year ago and even though he was my grandfathers brother I felt a great loss when he passed away.  Grandfather A (lets call him) had bought up my father as his own son and because he was the centre of our family here in the UK (my dad's dad was in Pakistan) I had a closer connection to him. Before last year I hadn't experienced a death of a member of the family so closely so never came to trully appreciate the heart ache one goes through. Even now when I think of Granfather A I feel a shiver run down my spine and feel my eyes fill up with tears as my last memory of my grandfather was seeing him lying peacefully in his coffin just before the namaaz e- janaaza. I don't think a day goes by when I don't think of him but losing someone so close helps you realise that, "To God we belong and to Him we will return."
It's such a simple prayer yet it so clearly explains the belief of Muslims such that is it God who gives and it is He who takes away too, the prayer provides reasoning during times of turmoil and calamity.


The Prophert PBUH said "If any Muslim man or woman suffers a calamity and keeps it in his memory, even if it happened a long time ago, saying each time as it is remembered, "Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un," Allah, who is Blessed and Exalted will give a fresh reward each time it is said, equivalent to the reward when it happened."
Tirmidhi: Ahmad and Bayhaqi, in Shu'ab al-Iman, transmitted it