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Forgetting that death may come at any
moment

People usually meet their death at unexpected times and
places, for:
And no self knows what it will earn tomorrow and in
what land it will die. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.
(Surah Luqman: 34)
The moment of a person’s death is determined by des-
tiny even before he or she is born. Allah reveals in the Qur’an:
It is He Who created you from clay and then decreed a
fixed term, and another fixed term is specified with Him.
(Surat al-An‘am: 2)
The fact that people do not know when they will die is
one of the factors that draw them toward unawareness. If
people who are aware of the Hereafter’s punishments knew
when they would die, they would not remain heedless of
Allah’s commands, be distracted by this world, or forget that
they will be called to account in the Hereafter.
Not knowing the time of one’s death is a secret of the tri-
als of this world. Believers who know this prepare for the
Hereafter as if they expect to die at any moment. They obey
all of Allah’s commands and prohibitions with complete sin-
cerity for as long as they live.
Unaware people live according to the desires of their
egos. They know they will die, but cannot grasp the fact that
death is an awakening in the Hereafter either to eternal
Paradise or endless Hell. They think of it as only an eternal
separation from the things and people they loved. This is why

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