Dear Islamic brothers! It is an extremely difficult and painful thing when the soul of a human is being seized during the agony of death. Therefore, it is extremely necessary to prepare for the death in order to stay safe from this difficulty.

Sayyiduna Imam Qurtubi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has said: Death is a very great trouble, but a greater trouble than the death is when a person becomes heedless of death, and does not remember death and stops performing (good) deeds for it. Undoubtedly, death gives advice and lesson to those who ponder over it and learn a lesson from it. (At-Tazkirah Be-Ahwal Al Mouta, pp. 8)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب    صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! Remember! To imagine the horrors of death in a proper way is itself horrible. Surely, wise is he who is busy preparing for it keeping in mind the agonies and troubles of death by abstaining from the interest of this mortal world. But Alas! Despite being wise, we are utterly heedless of death. The Beloved Rasool 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 healthy animal.         (At-Tazkirah Be-Ahwal Al Mouta, pp. 8)

Dear Islamic brothers! Have you noticed! If animals had so much information about death as we have, then none of them would be fat. We know that death is unavoidable; we also know that we definitely have to die one day; we are also aware of the fact that the time will be extremely painful when our soul will be seized. Moreover, after death, our worldly affairs, relatives, tall buildings and cars all will not benefit us; we also understand it, but we don’t know why we are still heedless. It is narrated that if one drop of the pain of death is placed on the mountains of the world, all will melt.

(Ihya-ul-‘Uloom, vol. 5, pp. 209)

Now just ponder! The death whose one drop of pain is so severe that even the high mountains melt after being incapable of bearing it, so how much severity can this agony bring about to humans?