Duas for End-of-Life
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There is a quiet mercy in having, near the end, words already chosen for you — and that is what this small volume offers. Duas for End-of-Life is drawn from a larger work by H.R.H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, 'A Tentative Guide to Islamic Invocations,' and gathers from it what is needed most in that final passage: litanies drawn from Qur'anic verses and the supplications of the Prophet ﷺ, offered here as a brief and invaluable collection on their own.
In our tradition, these repeated invocations — adhkār, awrād, wazīfahs — are not mere formulas. They are tools the heart returns to when it has little strength left for anything else, disciplining the self and drawing the believer nearer to Allah even, and especially, at the hardest hour. This edition keeps that purpose narrow and clear, setting aside the wider scope of the original guide to focus solely on the invocations fitting for approaching death.
It is the kind of book meant to be kept close rather than studied at length — for a bedside table, a hospital bag, or the hands of someone sitting with a dying relative who wants to say the right words and finds they are already written down, gathered with care from sound and lasting sources.
About the Contributor(s)
About the author
Ghazi ibn Muhammad: Born in Amman on October 15, 1966, Ghazi ibn Muhammad ibn Talal is a Jordanian scholar of the ruling Hashemite house, a nephew of the late King Hussein and first cousin to King Abdullah II, whom he serves as chief advisor for religious and cultural affairs and personal envoy. He read comparative literature at Princeton, graduating with highest honors in 1988, completed a doctorate at Cambridge in 1993, and later earned a second doctorate in Islamic philosophy at al-Azhar in Cairo. He is most widely known as the author of "A Common Word Between Us and You" (2007), the open letter from Muslim scholars to Christian leaders worldwide that grounded dialogue in the shared command to love God and one's neighbor, and as the author of the United Nations General Assembly resolution that established World Interfaith Harmony Week in 2010. He founded the World Islamic Sciences and Education University and launched the Great Tafsir Project, a large online collection of Qurʾanic commentary. His own books include "Love in the Holy Qurʾan," drawn from his al-Azhar doctorate and tracing the Qurʾan's vocabulary of love through its many stages, "A Thinking Person's Guide to Islam," and "War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad." His work joins traditional learning to interreligious peacemaking, and he remains an active voice for the classical Sunni mainstream.
About the editor
Shoaib Shah: Shoaib Shah is a British translator, editor, and author who has devoted his career to making classical Islamic scholarship accessible to contemporary English readers. He graduated from the seminary Jameʿah Uloomul Qurʾan and later earned a Master of Arts from the Markfield Institute of Higher Education. He went on to teach at his alma mater for roughly eighteen years, lecturing especially on the Qurʾanic sciences and tafsir. For around seventeen years he has worked editorially with Turath Publishing, contributing as translator, editor, or author to a long list of titles across the Islamic sciences. His translations include Ibn Jamaʿa al-Kinani's Etiquette of the Learner (an abridgement of the Tadhkirat al-Samiʿ wa al-Mutakallim), the treatise on the virtues and rulings of Salat al-Tasbih, and Life of the Grave, on the states of the deceased until the Resurrection. He served as editor on Softening the Heart, a rendering of Ibn al-Mubarak's Kitab al-Zuhd wa al-Raqaʾiq, and on Imam al-Ghazali's Book of Counsels, among many others. He has also produced devotional compilations such as Our Lord: Forty Rabbana, and authored short works on the life and character of the Prophet, including A Day in the Life of the Beloved. His output reflects a steady commitment to careful, readable renderings of the tradition.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781915265579
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Turath Publishing
Author
Prince Ghazi ibn Muhammad
Pages
96
Editor
Shoaib Shah
Year Published
2025
Size
W- | H- | D-
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