Remembering Death is Good for Health

Remembering Death is Good for Health have no idea when we might die, after which we cannot do anything. In this way, remembrance of death encourages us to engage in planned action for the things we have to do in life. Remembrance of death also helps promote intellectual awakening. It brings out our hidden intellectual abilities. It is a means for our intellectual development. According to the Islamic concept of life, a person’s life doesn’t stop at death. After death, there is another life, which will remain forever. After we die, depending on the actions we have performed before our death we will be judged to have succeeded or failed. If we realize this fact, it can create in us a powerful consciousness of the need to lead a life of true purpose. We will be stirred to lead our lives in a truly meaningful way. According to the general understanding, thinking about death is thinking about it as an event that supposedly causes the end of life. But according to the Islamic understanding of life, remembrance of death means that reflecting on death, a person should prepare for the period of life that comes after death. He should consider the life of this world as an opportunity to engage in actions that can be of benefit to him in the eternal life that follows death. This conception of death reminds a person that one gets life just once and that it depends on each of us to make our life a success or a failure, in terms of how we will fare in the Hereafter.