Life Death and Beyond
English book, p. 19
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Learning a Lesson from Death out of complacency and lead him to develop consciousness of the Hereafter. Old age tells him that his journey in this world is drawing to an end. Now he will compulsorily have to enter the next period of his life and stand before God Almighty on the Day of Judgment. The most unwise person is he who experiences old age but still refuses to reflect on his impending death and the Hereafter and continues to live in heedlessness and dies in that state, too. Learning a Lesson from Death Unlike what many people think, old age isn’t at all something undesirable in itself. In fact, it presents many opportunities for people to take heed. We come into this world for a very limited period of time. And, as soon as we are born here our countdown begins! Till the age of around 35 years, our graph moves upwards. Then, it starts to decline. We pass through middle-age and then oldage and, finally, meet with death. In the course of this period, we face all sorts of difficulties. As we age, we begin to lose many things, including our youth and physical health. When death strikes, we lose all our material possessions and even our own physical existence. The experience of death is the most serious experience for any person. With death, whatever material things we may have accumulated in the pre-death phase of our life will be snatched away from us. Ahead of us is the post-death stage

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