"Ya ‘abdal’llah, ya walada amatillah… (O servant of Allah, O child of the female servant of Allah…) …Udhkur al-‘ahd alladhi kharajta ‘alayhi min al-dunya, shahadata an la ilaha illa Allah wa anna Muhammadan ‘abduhu wa rasuluh, wa annaka radiya billahi rabban, wa bil-islami dinan, wa bi Muhammadin nabiyyan, wa bil-Qur’ani imaman. (Remember the covenant you left this world upon: the testimony that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, and that you are pleased with Allah as Lord, with Islam as religion, with Muhammad as Prophet, and with the Qur’an as guide.)"
This is not a "conversation" with the dead in the worldly sense, but a spiritual act of tawassul (mediation) and du’a (supplication). It serves as a final reminder to the soul as it enters the Barzakh (the intermediate realm between this world and the Hereafter). kalimat talqin
: Talqin Zikir as a Method of Da'wah (ResearchGate) covers its role in spiritual education. "Ya ‘abdal’llah, ya walada amatillah… (O servant of