Life Death and Beyond

What we need to do in order to be successful in the eternal life after death can be said to be the biggest issue before a human being. Even so, most of us are completely heedless and ignorant about this issue. Isn’t this the height of absurdity? People do everything they can to save themselves from what they regard as failure in this world. But they do nothing to save themselves from failure in the eternal world of the Hereafter— sometimes out of ignorance, and sometimes even knowing full well what they ought to do. Living Awareness of Death The Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said: “Remember death much because it demolishes all desires.” (Sunan Ibn Majah 4258) If people have a living awareness of death, their worldly attachments will disappear. They will consider the life after death to be more important than the life before death. Their thinking will become completely Hereafter-oriented. As a result, their hopes and aspirations, their activities, engagements and plans—all these would also become oriented to the Hereafter. A person who is heedless of death begins to think of this world as everything. The profit and loss of this world overwhelms his mind. He becomes a worshipper of this world. Death is such a reality that if someone gains a living awareness of it, a total revolution takes place in his life. He will be constantly aware of that day when everyone, including