His Supplication when Death was Mentioned

His Supplication when Someone's Death was Announced to him or when he Remembered Death 1- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, spare us drawn out expectationsand cut them short in us through sincerity of works, that we may not hope expectantly for completing an hour after an hour, closing a day after a day, joining a breath to a breath, or overtaking a step with a step! 2- Keep us safe from the delusions of expectations, make us secure from their evils, set up death before us in display. and let not our remembering of it come and go! 3- Appoint for us from among the righteous works a workthrough which we will feel the homecoming to Thee as slowand crave a quick joining with Thee, so that death may be our intimate abode with which we are intimate, our familiar place toward which we yearn, and our next of kin whose coming we love! 4- When Thou bringest it to us and sendest it down upon us, make us happy with it as a visitor, comfort us with its arrival, make us not wretched through entertaining it, degrade us not through its visit, and appoint it one of the gates to Thy forgivenessand the keys to Thy mercy! 5- Make us die guided, not astray, obedient, not averse, repentant, not disobedient or persisting, O He who guarantees the repayment of the good-doersand seeks to set right the work of the corrupt!