Salaam.
Dear Khaulah,
How are you today? Sorry its been a while. Two weeks ago, an uncle of mine passed away after embracing Islam the day before. I paid him a visit at the hospital a couple of times within that week and talked to his child about bringing him to Islam and they said they'll wait after all their siblings got together. The next day I was so grateful to hear that he agreed to embrace Islam on that very day. And alhamdulillah, though his illness did not cured, he died as a Muslim the day after.
Khaulah, this uncle is actually one of my colleague. I remembered that the first day I reported to the office, almost all of the staffs already knew that I'm his nephew and to the people at the village he always bragged of me as his "boss". His style was always the harshest when joking around, even among us Dusuns whom I consider to have rough style when talking. I knew that many people were hurt but the moment he died as a Muslim I was happy for him.
What I'm trying to say here is no matter how good or bad you lived your life, what matters most is how it ended. And obviously, the best way for us to have that desired good ends, a good death, we must live a good life and pray to Allah to grant us husnul khotimah.
Love,
Dad.
