Page 37 - Perfected Faith

THE OUTLOOK OF PEOPLE OF
PERFECTED FAITH ON DEATH

"Every soul shall taste death. You shall receive your re-
wards only on the Day of Resurrection. Anyone who is
spared the Fire and admitted to the Garden will surely
triumph. The life of this world is just the enjoyment of
delusion." (Surah Al 'Imran, 185)

Death will come upon every man existing in this world at a predes-
tined time in compliance with the verse, "Every soul shall taste
death. In the end you shall return to Us". (Surat al-'Ankabut, 57)
Nothing a man possesses, neither property, fortune, status, fame,
grandeur nor good looks can ward off death. Death is a law of Allah;
no one can escape this absolute and unavoidable fact. As the verse,
"Wherever you are, death will catch up with you, even if you are in
impregnable fortresses…" (Surat an-Nisa', 78) reminds us, there has
never been anyone who could succeed in escaping from death.
This fact is an issue about which people of perfected faith attain a
profound understanding. Once they comprehend the certainty and
closeness of death, they understand that they need to prepare for the
life after death. Fearing an imminent death that may come upon them
before attaining the moral perfection Allah demands from His ser-
vants and earning His approval, they embrace the religion of Allah
with great sincerity and enthusiasm. They lose no time in drawing