Life in a State of Urgency

and more is an outcome of unawareness about death and contentment is a result of awareness of this universal fact. The concept of death serves as a speed breaker in one’s life. Death makes people adopt a realistic approach. Death reminds one of one’s limitations. Death dispels all those negative desires, death is like a corrective measure in one’s life, the concept of death serves as a check and balance force in life. Death serves as a regulator of life. Death serves as a positive teacher of every human being. The concept of death controls desires. Death enables one to live a healthy and constructive life. The concept of death compulsorily makes you live a purposeful life, it makes you set your target and priorities, and then exert all your energy and time for that target. One who is aware of the reality of death, cannot afford to live a purposeless life. Death is not a negative event in one’s life; it has a completely positive lesson. Mutual Consultation One of the teachings of the Quran is shura, that is, mutual consultation. The Quran inculcates the spirit of shura among believers, so that they may decide upon all issues by discussion and counselling. In the chapter Al-Shura