ہاۓ! غافل وہ کیا جگہ ہے جہا                  پانچ جاتے ہیں چار پھرتے ہیں

جاگ! سُنسان بَن ہے رات آئی               گُرگ بہرِ شکار پھرتے ہیں

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب       صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! Remember! To truly imagine the horrors of death in a proper way is itself terrifying. Surely, wise is he who is busy preparing for it keeping in mind the agonies of death and its troubles by abstaining from the interest of this mortal world. But Alas! Despite being wise, we are heedless of death. The Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: If animals had knowledge of death as you have, then you would not eat any fat and strong animal. (At-Tazkirah, pp. 8)

Dear Islamic brothers! You have just heard that if animals had information about death as we have, then none of them would be fat and strong. We all know that death is unavoidable and that we must taste death one day; we are fully aware that when the soul is being seized, this is a extremely painful time. Whether it is relatives, our properties or cars, nothing will benefit us after death; but I don’t know why we are still heedless. It is narrated that if a drop of the pain of death is placed upon the mountains, the entire mountains will dissolve. (Ihya-ul-‘Uloom, vol. 5, pp. 209) Now just ponder! One drop of death is so powerful that even the mighty mountains cannot bear it, so how severe it would be for humans.

جاں کَنی کی تکلیفیں ذَبح سے ہیں بڑھ کر کاش!      مُرغ بن کے طَیبہ میں ذَبح ہوگیا ہوتا

کاش! کہ نہ دُنیا میں پیدا مَیں ہُوا ہوتا                     قَبر و حَشر کا ہر غم خَتم ہوگیا ہوتا

(Wasail-e-Bakhshish, pp. 158, 160)

As a matter of fact, the agonies of death may be understood by only that person who has tasted it, (without a real comparison) one who has not as yet tasted death, may get some amount of understanding by ‘comparing’ it with the pain and tortures he suffers from. Sayyiduna Imam Muhammad Bin Muhammad Bin Muhammad Ghazali عَـلَـیۡـهِ رَحْـمَـةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـوَالِی has said: You can understand in this way, that a part of the body which has become paralysed