Introducing Islam a Simple Introduction to Islam
The Great Divide
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THE GREAT DIVIDE
The grave divides this world from the Hereafter.
The next world lies across this great divide. Today
we are on this side of the divide; tomorrow we will
cross it. All living men will taste death; no one will
be able to escape it. But man is oblivious of death—
the greatest reality of life.
We have all seen people entering the grave never
to return, but few of us realize that we are also
going to meet the selfsame fate. The door of the
grave will open for us and then close on us for
ever.
How strange it is that man witnesses others
dying every day, but himself lives as if he was
never going to die. He can see others being
summoned before God every day, but he
excludes himself from death’s list; he acts as if
he was never going to come before the Lord to
be judged.
We are closer to death than life. If we could
realize this we would look on everyone’s death as
our own; it would seem as if we ourselves were
