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Those Things that Need to be Thought About 47

carved on a gravestone, removes man's attachment to the world. Someone
who sincerely and realistically thinks about this, sees how senseless it is to
lay claim to a body which one day is to decay in the earth.
In the above verses of Surat al-'Ankabut, Allah gives the glad tidings
of Paradise after death to those who are patient and put their trust in Allah.
For this reason, believers, thinking that they will die one day, try to live
sincerely directed towards Allah, living in right action and with the good
character commanded by Allah to attain Paradise. Every time they think
about the closeness of death, their determination grows and they try to
adopt the highest values and increasingly develop them throughout their
lives.
On the other hand, those who give precedence to other thoughts, and
spend their lives in vain anxieties, do not think that the same will definitely
befall them one day, even in the event that they come across a hearse and
even though they pass by cemeteries every day, and even when some of
their loved ones die beside them.

A funeral we encounter should
make us think of our own
death and that this world is
short and temporary.