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24 Hours in the Life of a Muslim
24 Hours in the Life of a Muslim

3-5 seconds. During this time, a person is asleep with no connection
to this world. His body and his spirit part company, and this time,
during which he thinks he is sleeping, is actually a kind of death.
Allah reveals in the Qur'an that human selves are taken while they
are asleep.
Allah takes back people's selves when their death arrives and
those who have not yet died, while they are asleep. He keeps
hold of those whose death has been decreed and sends the oth-
ers back for a specified term… (Surat az-Zumar: 42)

It is He Who takes you back to Himself at night, while know-
ing the things you perpetrate by day, and then wakes you up
again, so that a specified term may be fulfilled. (Surat al-
An'am: 60)
In these verses, Allah says that human selves are taken during
sleep, but are given back again until the determined hour of death
comes. While asleep, a person partly loses consciousness of the out-
side world. To awake from the "death" of sleep to consciousness
and the same condition as the day before, and to be able to see, hear
and feel perfectly well is a miracle that we should consider. A per-
son who goes to bed at night cannot be certain that these incompa-
rable blessings will be given to him again in the morning. And we
can never be sure if we will meet with some kind of disaster or
wake up in a healthy state.

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