Page 300 - Learning from the Qur'an

We have decreed death for you and We will not be forestalled.
(Qur'an, 56:60)

MAN MAY FACE DEATH UNEXPECTEDLY,
NO MATTER HOW MUCH HE MAY TRY TO ESCAPE IT
Say: 'Flight will not benefit you if you try to run away from death
or being killed. Then you will only enjoy a short respite.' (Qur'an,
33:16)
Truly Allah has knowledge of the Hour and sends down abundant
rain and knows what is in the womb. And no self knows what it
will earn tomorrow and no self knows in what land it will die.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Qur'an, 31:34)
Wherever you are, death will catch up with you, even if you are
in impregnable 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 comes from
Allah.' What is the matter with these people that they scarcely
understand a single word? (Qur'an, 4:78)
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.'
(Qur'an, 62:8)

ONLY THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN
ALLAH AND THE HEREAFTER FEAR DEATH
What do you think about those who left their homes in thousands
in fear of death? Allah said to them, 'Die!' and then brought them
back to life. Allah shows great favour to mankind, but most people
are not grateful. (Qur'an, 2:243)
Or that of a storm-cloud in the sky, full of darkness, thunder and
lightning. They put their fingers in their ears against the
thunderclaps, fearful of death. Allah encompasses the unbelievers.
(Qur'an, 2:19)

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