Reflections on Life and Death

On the Brink of Death after death, a world that is eternal and ideal. They told us that entry into that world is for those who before their death made themselves deserving of that world through righteous deeds. This reality is indicated in the Quran (10:25) thus: God calls man to the home of peace. On the Brink of Death O ne day, a man came to meet me at an odd time, and stayed for only a very short while. Unusually, he did not accept even a cup of tea. “I have to go home right away. My wife will be waiting for me,” he said, starting his scooter. And then he sped off. Hardly half an hour after he had left, the telephone rang. It was his wife. She sounded very nervous. “Your friend…” she said. Her sentence was incomplete, but her sobbing completed it. I put the phone down and at once ran towards his house. But by the time I got there, I learned that he had already died. He had left my place and reached his house. He was still on the stairs when he slipped and fell. Some people picked him up and took him inside. The doctor was called at once, but the only thing he did was to announce that he had already died. When he had left my house on his scooter, he was, it