Life Death and Beyond

who doesn’t acknowledge God and is completely heedless that he has to die one day miserably fails the test of life. Old Age, a Reminder The Quran (35:37) says: “There they will cry out, ‘Lord, take us out! We shall do good deeds, and behave differently from the way we used to.’ But He will answer, ‘Did We not make your life long enough to take warning if you were going to? The warner did come to you. So now have a taste of the punishment.’ Wrongdoers will have no supporter.” There are many reports in the books of Hadith with the same sort of message. In a hadith it is said that the person who gets a long life or old age will not be in a position to present any excuses to God on the Day of Judgment. An individual passes through several life-stages: childhood, youth, middle-age and, finally, old age. Old age is the final stage in this world for anyone because after that comes the stage of death. In this sense, old age is a prior notice of the arrival of death. In old age, a person’s organs become weak, and some of them even stop functioning completely. These developments tell a person that the time of his death has come near. They are a compulsory reminder of death. Old age leads one to stand at the rim of the grave. If a person’s mind is awakened, on reaching old age he will know that very soon the time will come when he will die and will be made to appear before God to account for his life on Earth. In this way, the experience of old age can jolt a person