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Mourn not the death....

Mourn not over the death of your beloved, call not back the traveller, who is on her journey toward her goal; for you know not what she seeks! You are on the earth, but now she is in Heaven.

By weeping for the dead you will make sad the soul who cannot return to earth; by wishing to communicate with her you do but distress her. She is happy in the place at which she has arrived; by wanting to go to her you do not help her; your life’s purpose still keeps you on earth. No creature that hath ever been born has belonged in reality to any other; every soul is the beloved of God. Does not God love as we human beings cannot? Death, therefore, does but unite man and God. For to Whom does the soul in truth belong, to Him in the end is its return, sooner or later.

Verily, death is a veil behind which is hidden life which is beyond the comprehension of the man or woman on the earth. If you knew the freedom of that world, and how the sad hearts are unburdened of their load; if you knew how the sick are cured, how the wounded are healed, and what freedom the soul experiences as it goes further from this earthly life of limitations, you would no more mourn those who have passed, but pray for their happiness in their further journey, and for the peace of their souls.

Hazrat Inayat Khan