Reflections on Life and Death

end only after ‘sixty kilometres’, but the Angel of Death grabs hold of him before those ‘sixty kilometres’ are crossed. In this world, every person has made a ‘plan for tomorrow’ for himself—like Jabir Husain’s postretirement plan—but suddenly, death takes hold of him and tells him that his ‘tomorrow’ will happen not in this world, but in another one. And it is where one thinks one’s journey has ended that one’s real journey starts.

The Journey of Life E very day, innumerable people enter through the door of death. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people set off from their homes but on the way to their destination they are caught by God’s angels, who take them to the stage of the Hereafter, instead of to where they wanted to go. Every person has built in his mind an entire world full of hopes and desires. He imagines that he is advancing towards the world of his hopes, that he is walking in the direction of the ‘tomorrow’ of his dreams. But very soon he comes to know that he is heading, not to the world of his hopes, but, rather, to the world of God, towards the Hereafter. People are simply unaware of where they are heading and where they will arrive. People generally give their all for the sake of their