The Greatest Teacher: death

miserable hut. although he started on a career of conquest with few parallels in world history, his life was too short for his empire to be welded together. Moreover, his only son having been killed in battle, none of his acquisitions could be handed down to his heirs. his vast empire was then divided between three military officers, none of whom was related to him, and there was no further cohesive or unifying force to hold it together; it was not long before his hard-won empire disintegrated. When death comes, it impresses the immediate beholders of its ravages just how helpless man is before his Maker. death strikes around him, sparing neither the high nor the low, yet people who are not directly affected fail to understand its significance. it has a lesson to teach, but man ignores it. Moreover, if he has paid no heed to the most urgent realities of life, death will undoubtedly leave him no respite to cogitate upon them at that time, and there will be no breathing space for him to learn lessons which he should have learned long before. death is the greatest teacher, but man lives through his life as if there were no such thing awaiting him at the end of life’s journey.