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The surviving life after death

Dr..

Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Haddad

02 April 2021

There is no one of the people except when he wants to prolong his life, for the believer wishes that to extend his religion and worldly life, and to increase obedience and demand for his Master, which is what the wise street favors as in the hadith: “None of you wishes for death, either a philanthropist, so perhaps he will be more good, or offensive, so perhaps he will be reputed. A Bedouin came to the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, and said: O Messenger of God, who is the best of people?

He said: “He who has a long life and does a good job,” and the soul is naturally inclined to love of life and hatred of death, as our mother Aisha, may God be pleased with her, said: “We all hate death.” However, that desire and that hatred does not change the matter.

Because God Almighty has written death on creation and has ruled it over others, the Glory be to Him, so it is an absolute necessity on the necks of servants.

- Real life is one that has an effect on itself by benefiting from hearing the truth, and staying in good remembrance after moving to the abode of survival.

However, the concept of death and life may differ from one person to another. Some people live alive and are in fact dead, and among people are those who are dead but alive, as al-Hakim said:

Some people have died and their deeds have not died. * And some people have lived while they are dead among people

True death is the death of the heart, mind and conscience, as God Almighty said: “Whoever is dead, then we revive him,” and his majesty says: “You do not hear the dead.” Such people are alive with their bodies, but they are dead by not using anything from their life for their hereafter.

This is what the poet meant by saying:

He who dies does not rest with the dead * Rather the dead is the dead of the living

The real life is the one that has an effect on itself by benefiting from hearing the truth and remaining in good remembrance after moving to the abode of survival, as God Almighty said regarding the martyrs: “Do not say to those who are killed for the sake of God They are dead, but those who live for you are left alive. The effect of protecting the religion and the world, as well as those whose effects remain in the interest of his work, such as knowledge that benefits him, or a good deed that benefits people, and he remembers them with praise and supplication, and this is what the father of the prophets Abraham wanted on him and on our Prophet, prayers and peace, by calling his Lord: Make me a tongue of truth in others So God gave him that as He Almighty said: “And He gave us to them from our mercy, and we made for them a tongue of true truthfulness. All mankind commends him and his offspring. This remembrance is a second life for a person ... Dhikr has a second age for a person

And such a life is within the reach of every human being, if his companions are reconciled to a righteous deed, so he lives with it in his isthmus as if he were in his life.

And those who live in this second life are many, of whom is Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who passed away the inevitable death, and whose many benign effects kept him alive, and he is only mentioned in the language of praise, prayer and loyalty.

Because of his good deeds in charity to people in his condition and money, he did not offend anyone who knew him or did not know him, and there is no way that benefits people except to follow him, for he is the pioneer of education, he is the pioneer of medicine, he is the pioneer of financial and economic reform, he is the pioneer of urbanism, he is the pioneer of equestrianism, he is the pioneer of clubs Al-Riyadiah .. And all of that was evident in it that no dust can ever be found.

And because of his keenness to keep him alive in this life, he made of his money what keeps these deeds as God willed from the ages, so he stopped the many endowments that are managed to carry out those deeds that he did, and their benefit remains, and his reward and remembrance of them remain, in accordance with the guidance of the Prophet, peace be upon him: «If a person dies His work was cut off except from three: current charity, or knowledge that benefits him, or a good boy who calls for him, ”and in the narration:“ Or work that benefits him. ”So he combined all of this from ongoing charity, which is real estate suspended for his charitable projects, mosques, schools, and education in various stages, Hospitals, medical and scientific excellence awards in various parts of the world, and knowledge that benefits from all disciplines, including schools and excellence awards, as well as a good supplication for him from the boy and not the boy, so he remains in this life of which much has died, so what is the greatest of this life Which Hamdan bin Rashid lives in his isthmus in which the shades of his benevolence waft - God Almighty - and reap the fruits of the righteous invitations from people.

May God have mercy on him extensively, and he kept a mention of him among those who have passed away.

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