Love of God

your life. The remembrance of death should be so part and parcel of your thinking that you lose interest in this world. Every night you should feel as if there will be no morning. Every day when you wake up, you should feel that this very morning will be the morning of doomsday. Every morning you should feel that that very evening will be the evening of doomsday. When you are in this state and you start feeling that at every moment you are standing at death’s door, when every occasion becomes a reminder of your own death, you can regard yourself as having remembered death. This is the reality which has been expressed thus in a Hadith: “Remember death very often. This will demolish pleasure.” (Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith No. 4258) Pleasure in this Hadith is a word which includes all desires, all feelings. One who remembers death in the real sense will, without doubt, face an earthquake in his life. His personality will be transformed in every respect. His thinking will become totally Hereafter-oriented. After thinking of death, if one leads a life as he had done earlier, it would mean that he has not truly remembered death. THE INKLING OF DEATH One who remembers death, by God’s special succour, gets to know of it in advance, and prepares for it. Wise is he who remembers death often and prepares himself for the end. One who is extremely sensitive about death, one who remembers death, often gets an inkling of death in