Life Death and Beyond
English book, p. 159
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Keeping Away from Preoccupations Temporarily that we have been given here will be taken away from us. We will remain the very same person that we were before death, but all the material things we were surrounded with will be separated from us. People who love to accumulate things will, in a fraction of a second, be bereft of all their material possessions. This is something that is bound to happen. Given this, it is something that we must seriously ponder on. In fact, it must become our greatest concern. Keeping Away from Preoccupations Temporarily People have knowledge of death, but they don’t have conscious awareness or realization of it. They know that there is something called death, but they haven’t discovered it at the level of conviction. It is because of this that people live as if death is something that will never happen to them. Death is the most terrifying thing that can happen in a person’s life. If people realize this truth at a conscious level, their entire focus will change. They will be conscious about living in such a way that they can be successful in the life that follows death. What is the reason for the general heedlessness about death? The reason for this is that in this world, a person faces, at every moment, different sorts of conditions and situations. These conditions and situations keep him constantly occupied. His life becomes a distracted one. On account of this, a person doesn’t make space to think about death.

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