One Thing We don’t Want to Talk about
but why?
Chances are we always put our best for things that aren’t certain, such as doing all preparation needed to be admitted to our dream school or accepted to our dream workplace or to succeed our business or anything that does not guarantee us to always make it. Well, nothing wrong with that.
Yet, I have gazillion questions on why we (first and foremost, myself) never prepare that hard for something certain and ironically we have no idea when it will come. In which is death.
We all die anyway. Regardless our religious faith, even people who don’t believe in God and hereafter, we all eventually die. None of us living an immortal life on this earth. Death does not require us to be old or sick or poor, it just happens to approach us in any state of ours.
“Life would be a lot easier to live if we talked about death now. We need to discuss these issues when we are fit and healthy so we can take the emotion out of it — and then we can learn not just what is important, but why it’s important.", said Michelle Knox on her ted talks titled ‘Talk about Your Death when You are still Healthy’
I came across another ted talks by Ric Elias telling his experience when his plane crashed in the Hudson River, New York in January 2009 and death was about to approach the whole passengers.
“We have this bucket list, we have these things we want to do in life, and I thought about all the people I wanted to reach out to that I didn’t, all the fences I wanted to mend, all the experiences I wanted to have and I never did.”, Ric Elias said.
“And I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that matter.”, he added.
As Prophet Muhammad SAW said more than 1400 years ago that the cleverest among believers are those who remember death and prepare for it. (Shahīh at-Targhīb wa’t Tarhīb III/164/3335.)
I do believe that by always remembering death, by knowing that our ‘life battery bar’ are constantly shrinking as days passed by, we will live our life to the fullest. We will not take people and things that matter for granted.
As a Muslim, I do believe in the hereafter, in the day of judgment as well as paradise and hellfire. I do believe that all humanity will be appreciated for good deeds and punished for the bad deeds by Allah SWT, The Al Hakim (The All Fairest and Wisest)
A, “How would you feel if you died and discover that hereafter, paradise, hellfire, and day of judgment were lies?”
The answer will be, “That is not going to be any worse than when you die and discover that hereafter, paradise, hellfire, and day of judgment are truths.”
“Verily, every soul will taste death.” — Al Qur’an, surah Al Imran verse 185
“Verily, Allah! With Him (Alone) is the knowledge of the Hour, He sends down the rain, and knows that which is in the wombs. No person knows what he will earn tomorrow, and no person knows in what land he will die. Verily, Allah is All-Knower, All-Aware (of things)”” — Al Qur’an, surah Luqman verse 34.
May Allah SWT gives ease for us to prepare this certain thing; death, as best as we possibly could.
