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From His Miracles

In 1971, Shaykh Nazim was in Cyprus...

for the three months of Rajab, Sha'ban, and Ramadan, as was his custom.

One day, in Sha'ban, we received a call from the airport in Beirut, and it was the Shaykh telling us to come and get him. We were surprised that he had come, as we were not expecting him, but we quickly went to pick him up.

He told us, “I have been ordered by the Prophet salla to come to you today, because your father is going to die. I am to wash him, shroud him and bury him and then go back to Cyprus.” We said, “O our Shaykh, our father is healthy, nothing is wrong with him.” He said, “That is what I have been ordered.” He was absolutely certain, and since we had been taught to accept what the Shaykh says, we submitted to him.

He told us to gather the family, and to bring them to see my father one last time. We believed him, and we called all the family to come. Everyone was surprised, and some didn’t believe when we called them. Some came and some didn’t come. My father knew nothing about that matter, but only saw the relatives coming to see him as something ordinary.

It was a quarter to seven. The Shaykh said, “Now I have to go up to your father’s apartment to recite on him the chapter of Quran Ya Sin ash-Sharif as he passes away.”

He went up to my father’s flat from our flat below. He was greeted by my father at the door. My father said, “O Shaykh Nazim, it has been a long time since we heard you recite Qur’an, won’t you read for us?”

Then Shaykh Nazim began to recite the chapter of Quran Ya Sin ash-Sharif. Just as he was finishing the chapter, the clock struck seven. Just then my father cried out, “My heart, my heart!”

We lay him down and my brother and sister, who are both doctors, came to check him. They found his heart racing out of control and within minutes he breathed his last.


~bron~