RasulAllah(SWS) described death as the destroyer of pleasures. RasulAllah(SWS) says: “Al-Mowtu Haqq.”
Hasan AlBasri says,
“I have never seen anything that is certain with no doubt in it but people deal
with it as if it is doubt, with no certainty like death.” We are certain about
death – Muslim and nonMuslim. Have you ever seen someone deny death? Hasan
AlBasri said that we deal with death as if it is doubtful. Each of us knows we
are going to die – how much have we prepared for it?
When you look at how people prepare for
death, they only do it in terms of this world: the funeral, the cemetery, and
the worldly arrangements. What is done for the other side of death? There are
elaborate preparations for the funeral and the food, etc. What will happen on the
other side?
On an interview with Isaac Azmoth, a very
prominent fiction writer, a few months before he died, he was asked “What do
you think will happen after you die?” He said, “Nothing.” His knowledge and all
of that intelligence and wealth makes him no different from the most ignorant
Arab disbeliever 1400 years ago. His intelligence didn’t move him up one notch.
Allah says about the nonbelievers, when
they see the reality, they will say: “If we had any
understanding/intelligence, we wouldn’t have been in the hell fire.” What
kind of a mind is that? Allah has told us why he has given us the mind: “We
have given you the sights, ears and mind so that you may be grateful.” – to
worship Allah! The eyes and ears are sources of input and the mind processes it
for us. If we used these three together, it would lead us to imaan.
Back
to what RasulAllah said: the destroyer of pleasures. If we talk about death and
we realize the reality of it, this will take away the veils of ghaflah
(unawareness) and we will see the truth and we will lose any appetite for
whatever the dunya has to offer. We cannot see the truth, and that is why we
have to talk about the death and akhirah
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