Death has never been an Easy-Thing to comes to Terms with. However, it’s something equally necessary to embrace.
Allah says:
“Those whom believe pay attention: Revere Allah, because revering Them is correct. And don’t die, except as Muslims.”
“Everyone shall taste Death. And, We test you with the Worst&Best of a Trial. And, then you’ll be returned to Us.”
(Noble-Qur’ān: Chpt.3, V.102; Chpt.21, V.35)
The Touch-Of-Death is Cold&Bitter…
…it’s like the Most-Dreadful Winter.
Death’s Eyes pierce the Soul like Fish-Hooks…
…Bodies once Rivers, now Shriveled-Brooks.
These Human-Souls are not really ours…
…simply Entities for our Hollow-Bodies.
Death is Ugly, and it brings Horrors…
…destroying Desires & yielding Realities.
To embrace Death: it’s to recognize/accept that ad-Dunyawiyyah/Mundane-Life, via Earth, is precisely how Allah describes it:
“The Enjoyment-Of-Illusion”
(Noble-Qur’ān: Chpt.3, V.185; Chpt.57, V.20; Chpt.64, V.64)
“All whom’re upon it shall perish.”
(Noble-Qur’ān: Chpt.55, V.26-47)
Death comes to us all. However, it matters not why and/or when we die: it’s how we die. And, I do not mean how by what Circumstances under which we died. I’m exclusively referring to what: State, Condition, Position with Allah (Creator/Lord of the Universe) at the time of Death which will be the most important.
This is how/why Muhammad (Peace be upon them warned:
“You’ll be judged via your Last-Deeds firstly.”
(an-Nawawī)
This means that our Final-Acts on Earth will undoubtedly be amongst our Most-Important Acts. This is how/why the Muslim must always be focused on having Positive-Thoughts, Positive-Feelings/Emotions, Positive-Motives, Positive-Actions, Positive-Influences, Positive-Company, Positive-Earnings, etc. Because, in All-Truthfulness/Honesty: none of us really know when we’re going to go.
Sadly though, Humans have allowed ash-Shaytān/Satan deceive us, letting ourselves think/feel that Death is really that “distant”: Death is rite upon our Necks. It’s exclusively the Mercy-Of-Allah which preserves Human-Life. The Human-Being is such a Strange-Creature: they witness&observe Death everyday, but yet audaciously/arrogantly think they’ll dwell within ad-Dunyā/the Mundane forever.
Gareth Bryant
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