Reflections on Life and Death

Heavenly Personality sense of contentment. If this happens on a large scale, all oppression and strife would cease. The fact is that in this world, there is not much difference between acquiring something and not acquiring it—for if the thing you acquire is such that you have to lose it with your death, acquiring it has no meaning at all! Man puts in all his effort to acquire something, only to lose it the very next moment! Ultimately, everyone meets with death. Every single thing that man is besotted by and accumulates is left behind when he has to leave this world for good. Man lives in his ‘today’, completely forgetting his ‘tomorrow’. He destroys someone else’s house in order to make his own, although the next day he is going to shift to his grave. Instituting false cases against someone, you drag him to the human court, but you do not want to know that angels are waiting to drag you to God’s court. Turning a blind eye to others, you delight in the tower of glory that you have built for yourself, although very soon this tower is going to come crashing down. Not a single brick will remain standing! Heavenly Personality T he Quran (95:4-6) tells us: We have indeed created man in the best of mould, then We cast him down as the lowest of the low, except for