English book · Love of God

Love of God

English book, p. 311

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

DEATH, A UNILATERAL MATTER worldly affairs and relations. The issue of death does not penetrate their consciousness at any time. This is the reason that all men and women remain unaware of death, even when they see people dying every day. They become aware of the event of death only when the Angel of Death comes and by taking away their soul, forces them to enter into the post-death world. We need to awaken from our slumber and prepare for gaining entry into Paradise. DEATH, A UNILATERAL MATTER In the world before death, man was in possession of life supports. In the period after death, those who made themselves deserving will find all these things in the later period of their life after death, only in larger measure, as a reward. Others will live in eternal deprivation. An earthquake always comes unheralded and unsought. An earthquake is so definitive an event that human beings have no power over it. The same is true of death. Death always comes unannounced and on its own terms. It is irreversible. This aspect of death is the most serious one. It demands that man should be ever ready to face up to it. When death comes upon one all of a sudden, one finds oneself all alone. Before death man lived among many things–home, family, friends and supporters, as well as the whole world of nature, which is ever-present to fulfil all his needs at every moment.

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