Negation of Greatness

Negation of Greatness already determined. As soon as this period is over, the angel of death arrives and takes the person’s soul to the world of the Hereafter. The time for this to happen has been fixed by the Creator. We need to be completely realistic with regard to the matter of death. We must accept it as an indisputable and unchangeable reality. We should make death a means to draw vital lessons for life, and not something to feel sorrowful about or regret. He who obtains true understanding of death becomes extremely serious. He will make his ‘tomorrow’ his goal, instead of his ‘today’. His life will become a Hereafteroriented one in the complete sense. Negation of Greatness The famous Indian journalist Khushwant Singh died in Delhi on 20th March 2014. He was then 99 years old. In the worldly sense, Mr. Singh was a very successful man. Fame, wealth, position, honour—all these he had obtained. He lived in a very big house. But at the time of his death, all of this was suddenly snatched away from him. Like all other people who have experienced death, he did not take any of his greatness along with him. This is not Mr. Singh’s story alone. It is the very same story of every other human being! Death reminds us of the fact which the Quran explains in these words (6:94): “And now you have returned to Us, alone as We created