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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Permissibility of Instructing the Dying Person to Recite the Testimony of Faith at the Time of Death

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Question:
This person asks and says: Regarding instructing the dying person in some of the two testimonies or some of the verses of the Qur'an, what is prescribed at the time of death?

Answer:
Yes, instructing him in the testimony of faith at the time of death is what is prescribed, based on his saying:
as saying, “If anyone’s last words are ‘There is no god but God,’ he will enter paradise.”صلى الله عليه وسلم من كان آخر كلامه لا إله إلا الله دخل الجنة،
Mishkat al-Masabih 1621
He is reminded of it at the time of death so that he may utter it and it may be his last words. Yes.
Source نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/124 — archive.org (10:01)

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