Page 57 - Never Plead Ignorance

HARUN YAHYA 55

Never abandon yourself to this heedlessness, which seizes many
people, and never plead ignorance of the fact that death is but a mo-
mentary transition and that it is very close to every soul.

People assume they can take precautions against death. This is how-
ever a senseless conviction. No matter where the person is, by whom he
is surrounded, or under which circumstances he leads his life, it is un-
likely that he could avoid death. Allah draws our attention to this fact in
the following verses:
Say: "Death from which you are fleeing, will certainly catch up with you.
Then you will be returned to the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible
and He will inform you about what you did." (Surat al-Jumu'ah: 8)
Whereever you are, death will catch up with you, even if you are in im-
pregnable fortresses. If a good thing happens to them, they say, "This has
come from Allah." But if a bad thing happens to them, they say, "This has
come from you." Say, "Everything has come from Allah." What is the mat-
ter with these people that they scarcely understand a single word? (Surat
an-Nisa: 78)
Every self will taste death. We test you with both good and evil as a trial.
And you will be returned to Us. (Surat al-Anbiya: 35)
Everyday we hear of the death of someone or we lose one of our
close relatives. These incidents are surely OBVIOUS evidence that no one

can avoid death. Whether young or old, well-off or poor, every one faces
death on a predestined day. This makes one realise that one should not at-
tach to this world and prepare for the life after death.
Never plead ignorance of the fact that a person merely deceives
himself by assuming that death is far from him. And being aware of
this fact, spend your life in earning the good pleasure of Allah.

Avoiding the thought of death does not change the fact that one will
die one day. A sudden traffic accident or a clot on the brain may well be
the unexpected end of a young and healthy person. Nobody can claim
that he will not die falling down steps or on the way to a business meet-