Both these prayers in actual fact are an expression of the feelings of a believer in relation to death. This means that when the moment of death comes to a believer, his feelings may take the form of a prayer of this kind. At that moment the feeling of a believer should be: “When the time to depart from the people of this world comes, I want to be near to God Almighty.When I have to leave the company of human beings, I want to be blessed with the company of angels. When death separates me from my people, let me not be left all alone but let me find the blessing of a nobler assembly in the company of God. Let my journey of death become a journey from a lower to a higher level of being.” This prayer is not just a set of words. It is a verbal expression of the internal feelings of a true believer. The desire of a true believer is that the next stage of life should be far better than the present one. He wants the blessings of God which he had in this present testing ground, to be given to him in the world after death in the far higher form of God’s eternal blessings. He desires death to become a means of leaving this imperfect world and entering the perfect world of the Hereafter.
