Page 87 - Fear of Allah

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
unrecognizable state, having been hit by a car, and then having to
witness this body being put into a black body bag, zipped up from
head to toe, will bring to mind many things they are trying to forget.
To see someone of their own age, lifestyle and mindset, lying on the
road with a crowd gathered around the body, would fill their hearts
with the dreaded realization that they are totally unprepared for
their own death and the Hereafter. A couple of days before they
would have been showing off their "designer" clothing together and
pursuing their professional ambitions, while claiming not to have
any time for religion and cracking jokes about the Hereafter. All of a
sudden, confronted with the sight of their erstwhile friend, they find
themselves in quite a different state of mind. The emergency per-
sonnel will gather up for disposal his broken glasses, which were
thrown to the ground, his damaged shoes and the fashionable acces-
sories he was wearing. His once proud body will be taken immedi-
ately to a hospital mortuary to prevent decomposition and left there
with other bodies. What was once a human being will, within a cou-
ple of days, be wrapped in a white cloth and placed into a hole in the
ground.
However, for most of them this fear will be short lived. Within a
short period they will revert to their previous mentality, seeing
death as something that affects everyone but themselves. Despite
seeing people around them dying, in spite of knowing that the
Hereafter awaits them, in spite of the ageing of their own bodies and
the step-by-step approach of the end, they do not fear Allah, and so
refuse to think about death at all. For this reason, instead of using
whatever little time they may have left to alter their ways and con-
form to Allah's guidance, they choose to pursue an ever-increasing
level of heedlessness.

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