A visit to the graveyard

About 2 weeks ago, hubby and I plus 2 of our kids went to the graveyard in the evening.  It was rather an unplan visit. 

view of the graveyard from far…

 

Upon reaching the graveyard, we went to my mum’s first.  As usual I felt like its not enough to be just standing and looking at her grave.  I want to hug her realtime. PERIOD!

 

hubby cleaning my father’s grave ….

The kids had lots of questions about the graveyard and what’s going on after we are buried.  I had quite a talk about this matter with them.  The youngest said she felt afraid but who doesn’t right?  Just imagining oneself buried inside the earth, dark, alone, not knowing what will happen to us and all those unwanted visitors swarming around our body …. just creeps me out too!  Reflection time!

Next, we went to my father’s ….. his was always the most challenging one to find cos it was right in the middle and further down the road.  Alhamdulillah, we did find his grave quite easily to our delight. 

By now, it was already almost 6 pm ….. I asked my husband whether its okay to make another stop and he said ok.  Thus, we travelled to another part of the graveyard …. further down and rather new graveyard to visit my late teacher’s grave.

I had a vague idea of how to get there, alhamdulillah we managed to find the plot but it took us rather long to find her grave.  Have to thank hubby for being persistent.  He simply did not give up and in fact he was the one who suggested that I sms to ask for the plot number.

We were all looking for “Sharifah Badriyah” … but just could not locate the name.  Finally, after I got my answer thru the sms, we realised the name written as “Hjh Badriyah”

It was right in front of us but we were just too focus on finding the word “sharifah”….

 

my teacher’s grave …

Alhamdulillah ….

Visiting the graveyard was soothing and most effective in bringing us down to reality ….. that death is just round the corner

May Allah forgives us and bless us all, especially to those who have departed before us, our love ones …. Amin.

PS : Be generous and recite Al-Fatihah for all of our loved ones …. please do, Al-Fatihah!