BEWARE: DEATH can come anytime! NO WARNING AT ALL! [ DEATH : Part 1 ]
Saad Haq
In the name of ALLAAH, the Beneficent, the Merciful
شروع الله کے نام سے جو بڑا مہربان نہایت رحم والا ہے
As Salaam O 'Alaykum Wa Rehmatullaahi Wa Barakatuh! Sibling in Islam,
ALLAAH
says:
“Everyone shall taste death.
And only on the day of Resurrection shall you be
paid your wages in full.
And whoever is removed away from the fire and admitted to Paradise he indeed is successful.
The life of this world is only the
enjoyment of deception (a deceiving thing).”
(Aal-‘Imraan 3: 175)
Such is the reality of death and what comes after it. Every one of us shall
taste it whether poor or rich; healthy or sick, old or young; leader or led and
none of us can escape it.
ALLAAH says:
“Wheresoever you may be, death will overtake you even if you are in a fortress
built up strong and high.”
(An-Nisaa 4: 78)
One of mysteries of death is that you see a youth who was full of health and
energy suddenly falls dead without warning; thereby making that youthfulness
and energy fade away, bringing all his senses to a complete standstill. That
youth might even be an erudite scholar, an eloquent author, a skilled physician
or brilliant inventor but it is absolutely out of the question that this quality
should prevent death from overtaking him when his time is due.
ALLAAH says:
“When their term is reached, neither can they delay it nor can they advance it
an hour (or a moment).”
(Yoonus 10: 49)
‘Amr bin Abdullah used to mount the pulpit and say,
“Many a person who has seen the beginning of a day but would not see it’s end.
And many a person who has expected morning but would not live to see it. If
only you had known your appointed time and how it comes to pass, you would have
detested nursing hope for worldly materials and its deception.”
While man enjoys his good health, playing and merrymaking, moving about in
haughtiness, commanding and forbidding, death and illness suddenly attacks him,
weakens his body, makes his limbs lifeless and then closes his record.
How near is death! Every day it becomes closer to us and no sooner has the book
reached its appointed time that we belong among the dead. Then it becomes clear
that life is really like flowers that bloom then afterwards wither or like a
lamp that illuminates then afterwards dies down.
Let those who crave for this world and its pleasures ponder over these
scattered graves all over the place and realize that the way to pleasures and
lustful things, though decorated with beautiful roses inevitably leads to the
present condition of those buried in these graves. Happiness is for him whom a
messenger of death has opened his eyes to reality before he died, and whoever
does not heed to the warning of the Qur’an and death, even if mountains were to
thrust one another in front of him, he would not heed.
What we witness in the cemeteries is a great lesson for us. The carrier of the
bier to the cemetery today is taken back there tomorrow (as a dead person) and
is left there only with his deeds either good or evil.
It is also very unfortunate that in these days we see some among those who
escort the deceased laughing and playing or attending the funeral for showing
off. This phenomenon is due to the heedlessness that has hardened people’s
hearts and made them forget the Last Day and the frightening conditions of the
grave. May ALLAAH awaken us from this heedlessness!
It is expected of him who knows that he will die, be buried,
raised up on the day of Resurrection and enter Paradise or Hell to always
remember death, prepare for it and reflect on it. He is in fact expected to
regard himself among the dead. This is because all that is coming is near and
when the angel of death comes neither your wealth nor your people can prevent
him from taking your soul.
Where are those who achieved their aims and none were comparable to them in
that? They collected but could not eat what they collected; they built mansions
but could not live there! We on our part are still swimming in the pool of life
as if we are meant to live here forever.
When will one who always follows his lustful desires and moves wantonly in his
heedlessness remember death? When will one who has no regard for ALLAAH’s
injunctions in Halaal or Haraam remember death? When will one who deserts the
Qur’an, prays not Fajr in congregation, usurps people’s property unlawfully,
takes usury, and commits fornication, remember death? How can one whose habit
is slandering others and backbiting, whose heart is full of rancour and envy
remember death?
Remember our main goal in this life is to Please ALLAAH & attain a place Jannah!
ALLAAH says (interpretation of the meaning):
Verily! We have made that which is on earth as an adornment for it, in order that We may test them (mankind) as to which of them are best in deeds.
[Surah Al-Kahf (Ch.18), Ayaat 7, Qur'an]
ALLAAH says (interpretation of the meaning):
Blessed is He in Whose Hand is the dominion, and He is Able to do all things.
Who has created death and life, that He may test you which of you is best in deed. And He is the All-Mighty, the Oft-Forgiving.
[Surah Al-Mulk (Ch.67), Ayaat 1-2, Qur'an]
wALLAAHu subhanu wa ta'ala 'Aalam!
Take Care,
As Salaam O 'Alaykum Wa Rehmatullaahi Wa Barakatuh!
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[[ Oh ALLAAH! I beseech You for Guidance, Taqwa, Chastity and Contentment. ]]
- Du'aa taught by Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)
Sa'ad Haq
Electrical Engineer Student