Al-Waaqia • EN-AL-JALALAYN
﴿ فَلَوْلَآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلْحُلْقُومَ ﴾
“Why, then, when [the last breath] comes up to the throat [of a dying man],”
Why then when it the spirit during the throes of death reaches the dying person’s throat hulqūm is the passage for food