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worst mistakes anyone can make. Man, who will never be able to pre-
vent his death, will die at a place and time unknown to him from one
cause or another. The situation of people who forget about death and im-

merse themselves into this life is revealed in the verses:
As for those who do not expect to meet Us and are content with the
life of this world and at rest in it, and those who are heedless of Our
Signs, their shelter will be the Fire because of what they earned.
(Surah Yunus: 7-8)

In spite of the inescapable reality of death and Judgment Day, some
people close their eyes to this reality and choose instead false beliefs like
karma and reincarnation. They unceasingly condition themselves to dis-
regard death and fool themselves by saying that they “do not fear dy-
ing”, but this type of aberration earns them a great loss on earth as well
as in the hereafter. Those who believe in karma consider death to be the
portal into their next life and reject the idea of the Day of Judgment and
the hereafter. This is nothing but self denial, because irrespective of how
much they refrain from contemplating death and Judgment Day, they
will nevertheless meet both. This escape can only last for the duration of
ones lifetime or 60-70 years. Every human being will die, be judged, and
receive the return for his actions whether or not he ponders this un-
avoidable reality. Allah reveals this fact:

The throes of death come revealing the truth. That is what you were
trying to evade! (Surah Qaf: 19)
Allah will not give anyone more time, once their time has come.
Allah is aware of what you do. (Surat al-Munafiqun: 11)

Those who disregard the reality of death in the belief that death is
but the beginning another cycle of rebirth into the next life will have to
answer for all their actions on the Day of Judgment. In the end, they too
will believe in Allah and the hereafter, and will come to now that evad-
ing the Day of Judgment is impossible:

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)