Introducing Islam a Simple Introduction to Islam
Towards Death
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in the wake of death; they focus their attention on
gaining an honorable position in the life after death.
Unbelievers, on the other hand, are caught up on
worldly affairs. Their ultimate ambition is worldly
honour and prestige. Under present circumstances,
those who have consolidated their position on earth
seem to be successful, but death will shatter this
facade. It will become clear that those who seemed
to have no base in the world were in fact standing
on the most solid of foundations, while the position
of those who had reached a high status in the world
will be exposed as false. Death will obliterate
everything; afterwards only that which has some
worth in the after-life will remain. We are obsessed
with the world which meets our eyes. We fail to pay
attention to the call of truth. If we were to see the
next life with our worldly vision, we would
immediately submit to God. We would realize that
if we do not submit to Him today, we will have to
do so in the future world, when submission will
profit no one.
