A moment between Life and Death
I never saw my life or thought about it, in such a way before that I did today while I was standing at Hamad Hospital's emergency room. Not that I wasn't afraid of death before, but after I today, it gave me a whole new prospective to look at life, certainly a different view. We are always busy living our lives thinking about what will we do tomorrow or whats going on in our relationship, work, life, friends etc... but I dont know how many of us think about... what if this life ends today after a few minutes? on the other hand... I was wondering, what if people were to remember god, the way the'd remember him on the death bed in an Emergency room... how different the world would be, this was my second observation; I stood there at the door looking at the people of different cultures, race, social status, wealth... etc, coming in and being treated the same way as each other, without any discrimination.. taking god's name.. praying to live. For a moment everyone seemed equal, the poor were no different than the rich, the locals wernt different form expats... and so on. At that point I realised how much more is my life worth, how greatful I am to Allah for giving me such a blessing, its a shame that I can't thank him for this blessing, no matter how much or how hard I try.
I also thought about how these people drive like idiots and then end up on the death bed at ER, how percious is the life to these people?, why do people think of life as just a joke or as if they will never die. Tomorrow when our time comes, what will happen to all this money and the fame we run after?, it will all stay here and the only thing that would matter is what good we did in this world.
Today I was not afraid of dying, but more of what answers would I have, when god will question me?
It's not me, it was actually my dad... He went to get some medicen and the doctor said he had irregular heart beat, so we had to rush to Emergency at hamad hospital and there they kept him for 6 hours and did all the tests. Now he's on medication and he's allrite Alhamdulillah.
Una palabra no dice nada, Y al mismo tiempo, Lo esconde todo - Outlandish
Many of us have these "epiphonies", but forget about them sooner than later. I hope that we all can take a little from this story and learn to be better human beings.
You had an epiphony! to truly understand life you have to except death as a part of it. It is an unfortunate truth that until most people have a near death experiance that the thought that one day you will die never occurs to them.It is only when they have this epiphony that they truly accept what life is, Life is a gift that at any day can be taken away. Here is a piece of wisdom someone once shared with me "I learnt early in life the sooner you except death as a part of it you are free from all bonds,it is the reason why I live the way I do it is also the reason why people tend to have a problem with me. I make no excuses for what I have done or said in my life as this is what I truly believe. Everything I have done in my life I have no regrets over as it makes me who I am today. The fact that one day I will die does not scare me as i have already except death as a part of my life.When we are born part of the contract of life is death the sooner you come to that realization the sooner you truly start to live."
Death is a reminder of how mortal we are; for some it drives them to contemplate the real meaning of life; while for others it does not phase them because their hearts have already died due to corruption, sin, arrogance etc...
"Every soul will taste of death, and you will only be paid fully your reward on the resurrection day..." (Qur'an 3:85)
"The same did Abraham enjoin upon his sons, and also Jacob, (saying): O my sons! Indeed God has chosen for you the (true) religion; therefore die not except as men who have surrendered (unto Him)." (Qur'an 2:132)
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"I’d say in a given week I probably only do about 15 minutes of real actual work." - Peter, Office Space
o.k? let me know if you're alright. too bad we all don't have more real moments. i am reading a book right now about this.
Thexonic what happened are you sick
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"When carried to his grave, a dead person is followed by three, two of which return (after his burial) and one remains with him: his relative, his property, and his deeds follow him; relatives and his property go back while his deeds remain with him."
i do understand completly what you are seeing
coz i have been through this and trust me its all in how we choose to live our lives and at the end we all have to answer the One Almighty Allaha....
and no other thought scares me other than how will i face Allaha and give him the answers for my deeds,
but i try to live my life the way he has asked us too
and that gives me a little peace and I thank him every second of my life for forgiving me and taking care of me.
Life is a mystery..... you never know whats next.....
do good and die good!