Death, Remembrance of Death

DEATH, REMEMBRANCE OF DEATH Hereafter will harm his world.” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 19697) So you must prefer what is eternal to what is temporary. The truth is that life is the name of priorities. The right priority leads man to success and the wrong priority leads man to failure. DEATH, REMEMBRANCE OF DEATH Remembrance of death makes a man cut to size, making him modest. Then one lives in total helplessness, acknowledges and accepts others and surrenders before the truth. Death without doubt is the greatest problem for everyone. Death is like an earthquake for the individual. Earthquakes strike on the land, while death strikes at the individual. Just as man has no control over the earthquake, similarly, man is not able to control death. Just as an earthquake comes without prior warning so also does death come without prior warning. Just as it is not possible to reverse the earthquake, so also it is not possible to turn back death. Man in the face of the earthquake is totally helpless. Similarly, man too, in the face of death, is totally helpless. Man has no personal control either over the earthquake or over death. While death puts an end to one’s life, the remembrance of death can cause the elimination of the ego. The ego is man’s greatest quality. Yet it is this very ego which becomes the cause of all evils in man. It is due to this ego that such