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How is reading similar to dying?

Reading is a necessarily solitary experience—like dying, everyone reads alone.

…..over the centuries readers have learned how to cultivate that solitude, how to grow it in the least hospitable environments.

-from In Defense of Readers by Mandy Brown

O sweet & beautiful Madani

A man asked the Prophet s.a.w about the Hour, saying “When will the Hour be?” The Prophet s.a.w said “What have you prepared for it?” The man said, “nothing, except that I love Allah & His Apostle”. The Prophet s.a.w then said, “you will be with those whom you love”.