The death of a very spiritual person is sometimes considered to be as a wedding, as is shown by this account by Mohammed Ibn al-Arabi of one of the Sufis of Andalusia.

Abu Ali Hasan al-Shakkaz, the tanner, was one of our group in Seville. This man was very prone to weeping, and tears were seldom absent from his eyes. He used to keep company with an uncle of mine on my father’s side who was one of the elite of the folk of God. He never uttered the word ‘I’, nor did I ever hear him utter it.

We had sought a lady’s hand for him in marriage, and had resolved to see it through. I became ill, however, and when he came to visit me I spoke with him on the matter. He said, ‘My brother, I am already married and on Thursday I will enter my bridal home.’ This was on Saturday. Then he left me. Sometime after Umm al-Zahra came to see me, a woman dedicated to the Way of God. I mentioned to her what was afoot. When she left me she went to him and discovered that almost as soon as he had left me he had fallen ill. When she spoke to him on the matter of the marriage, he said, ‘O Fatimah, after five days I will enter my bridal chamber, as I told my brother Ibn al-Arabi.’ She asked, ‘With whom will you marry, and how is it that you have a secret from us?’ He replied, ‘My sister, you will know on Thursday.’ On Thursday, he died, was buried, and entered heaven, if God wills, a bridegroom on the night of Friday.