death’s lesson

DEATH’S LESSON We do our utmost to construct a “magnificent world” for ourselves. however, just as our dream world takes shape, the angel of death visits us and takes us away from the world we have worked so hard to construct. We are then taken to what arthur Koestler called an “unknown country”. if that is all there is, life is a tragic story. however, like everything else in the universe, this world can only be considered complete when taken along with its counterpart. The counterpart of this is the world hereafter. For those who have forgotten the next world, this life is nothing but a tragedy; but for those who look forward to life in the present to build their personality for the hereafter, this world becomes an invaluable step toward a new, more successful existence in the next world. The happy ending that all of us long for will be a reality if we never lose sight of the fact that there is a life after death. DEATH’S LESSON People who die give an important lesson to the living: they will meet the same fate one day. Then the living can experience death before death arrives. once, i attended the burial service of an individual. The man’s body was washed and wrapped up in a new sheet. People said the prayers that are recited on such occasions, and then, lifting the corpse on their shoulders, they headed