Page 75 - Devoted to Allah

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

is senseless. In fact, fear of death will avail him nothing;
death is inescapable. Everybody will die at a predestined
time. Those who fear death are warned in the Qur’an as
follows:
… They are concealing things inside themselves
which they do not disclose to you, saying, “If we had
only had a say in the affair, none of us would have
been killed here in this place.” Say, “Even if you had
been inside your homes, those people for whom
killing was decreed would have gone out to their place
of death.”… (Surah Al ‘Imran: 154)
Death, which is a door to the Hereafter, brings bliss
and salvation only to those who have spent their lives in
compliance with Allah’s good pleasure. For those who
turned away from Allah, on the other hand, death means
utter destruction and the beginning of a horrible disaster.
In the Qur’an it is related that once death comes, the regret
felt by those who have forgotten Allah—as if they would
never die—will be of no avail:
There is no forgiveness for people who persist in
doing evil until death comes to them and who then
say, “Now I repent,” nor for people who die disbeliev-
ers. We have prepared for them a painful punishment.
(Surat an-Nisa’: 18)
When death comes to a wrongdoer, he says, “My Lord,
send me back again, so that perhaps I may act rightly
regarding the things I failed to do!” No indeed! It is
just words he utters. Before them there shall stand a
barrier until the Day they are raised up. (Surat al-
Mu’minun: 99-100)

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