Quran For All - In Every Hand, In Every Heart. "Do Not Wish For Death" By Zainab Habib Between her sobs, I heard her mumble "I wish I was dead!" "How bad could her situation be?" I thought to myself. It couldn't be worse than the hardships our Prophet (saw) or his companions went through and yet they were forbidden to wish for death. Physical, emotional or financial problems, singly or combined can put us into that kind of short-sighted mode. We tend to forget that we have been told not to wish for death. We forget that with death, our troubles may not necessarily come to an end as we do not know what awaits us after it.