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spent their entire lives in order to buy fine houses, summer residences and
cars, and to send their children to good colleges, do not want to think that
one day they will die and that they will not be able to take their cars, their
houses, or children with them. Consequently, rather than beginning to do

something for the real life after death, they choose not to think.
However, everyone, sooner or later, will definitely die and after one
dies, whether one believes it or not, the eternal life will begin for every-
one. Whether this eternal life will be spent in Paradise or in Hell depends
on what one has done in the short life of this world. While such is the plain

truth, the only reason why people behave as if death does not exist is this
spell that has covered them because they do not think.
Those who cannot, by thinking, save themselves from this spell and
therefore from a heedless state, will understand the facts by seeing them
with their eyes after they die. Allah communicates this fact in the Qur'an:

You were heedless of this, so We have stripped you of your cov-
ering and today your sight is sharp. (Surah Qaf: 22)
As Allah says in the verse, the sight which here is blurred because of

not thinking, will be "sharp" at the time when the person gives account in
the Hereafter after death.
It should be pointed out that people deliberately impose such a spell
on themselves. They suppose that by doing so they will live restful and

relaxed lives. However, real amenity, peace, joy and comfort can be gained
by this spell being removed. Besides it is very easy for anyone to make a
decision and shake off this mental numbness, and begin to live with a clear
consciousness.
Allah has presented the solution to people; people who reflect can
dispel this enchantment while they are in the world. They thus come to

understand that all events have a purpose and an inner meaning, and are
able to see wisdom in the events that Allah creates at every instant.