Love of God

keeps control over himself and makes his target of action such matters as pertain to the life after death”. (Sunan alTirmidhi, Hadith No. 2459) Death serves as reminder of this reality: it is the greatest teacher. One who can take this lesson from death, will find that his whole behaviour will be set right. He will, to the ultimate extent, become alert to all that is most important in relation to life and the afterlife. THE BIGGEST MISUNDERSTANDING Death reminds us that while in the pre-death period, we receive all these things as a matter of universal distribution, but in the post–death period we will receive things on the basis of selective distribution. Then some will have all things and some will be completely deprived. In the present world, man has everything which is necessary. This situation is misleading. Everyone takes these things to be his by right, thinking this will never change. But the reality is quite the contrary. The fact is that all these things have been given to man temporarily and only for the purpose of putting him to the test. He will get all these things during the test period, but after that, all of a sudden they will be taken away from him. It is death which terminates this period. The person will remain the same after death, but everything will be taken away from him. The human being is a needy creation. He needs many things to fulfil his desires. God created all these things for man. But there is a difference between the pre-death period and the post-death period. In the pre-death period, man has