وسئل الحسن بن علي بن أبي طالب عليهما السلام، ما الموت الذي جهلوه؟ قال: أعظم سرور يرد على المؤمنين إذ نقلوا عن دار النكد إلى نعيم الأبد، وأعظم ثبور يرد على الكافرين إذ نقلوا عن جنتهم إلى نار لا تبيد ولا تنفد. وقال علي بن الحسين عليهما السلام،: لما اشتد الامر بالحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب عليهما السلام، نظر إليه من كان معه فإذا هو بخلافهم لأنهم كلما اشتد الامر تغيرت ألوانهم وارتعدت فرائصهم ووجبت قلوبهم وكان الحسين عليه السلام وبعض من معه من خصائصه تشرق ألوانهم وتهدئ جوارحهم وتسكن نفوسهم، فقال بعضهم لبعض: انظروا لا يبالي بالموت! فقال لهم الحسين عليه السلام: صبرا بني الكرام، فما الموت إلا قنطرة تعبر بكم عن البؤس والضراء إلى الجنان الواسعة والنعيم الدائمة فأيكم يكره أن ينتقل من سجن إلى قصر وما هو لأعدائكم إلا كمن ينتقل من قصر إلى سجن وعذاب. إن أبي حدثني عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله أن الدنيا سجن المؤمن وجنة الكافر والموت جسر هؤلاء إلى جناتهم وجسر هؤلاء إلى جحيمهم، ما كذبت ولا كذبت.
3.	Hasan bin Ali bin Abi Talib, peace be upon them both, was asked: What is the death which they are ignorant of? He said: The greatest joy that approaches the believers when they are transferred from the home of miserableness to the bliss of the everlasting, and the greatest affliction that approaches the disbelievers when they are transferred from their paradise to a Fire that is not to extinguish nor cease. Ali bin Hussain, peace be upon them both, said: When the matter of Hussain bin Ali bin Abi Talib, peace be upon them both, was intensified, those who were with him looked at him, and at sudden he was behind them, because whenever the matter intensified, their colors changed [1], their shoulder flanks shivered and their hearts fell, whereas Hussain, peace be upon him, and some of those who were with him of his special companions, their colors would shine, their limbs would quieten and their inner selves would calm. They said to each other: Look, he does not care about death! Then Hussain, peace be upon him, said: Patience, O sons of the generous, for death is but a bridge that makes you cross from suffering and harm to the wide gardens and everlasting bliss, for which of you would dislike to relocate from a prison to a castle? For your enemies, it is not but like the one who relocates from a castle to prison and torment. Indeed, my father told me of the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, that this world is the prison of the believer and the paradise of the disbeliever, and that death is the bridge of those to their Gardens and the bridge of those to their Hell. I have not lied, nor been negated.