(1)
Imagine that Pharaoh is still alive, God did not drown him, he crossed to the other side, even if he was defeated.
Imagine that Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Ho Chi Minh, and Pol Pot are still alive.
Imagine that Che Guevara, Omar Mukhtar, William Wallace, and Gandhi are still alive.
So are the apostles and prophets, relatives and friends, enemies and loved ones.
(2)
When I was young I asked my father once: What is the secret of God’s praise of those who believe in the unseen?
He simply said to me: Because it reflects the strength of their belief in a God that they have not seen, and they affirm in His existence, and that He created existence, and they dream of their true future;
what they will be like after death, and they bear everything that happens to them in this world and do not care about it;
It is the decree of God, God whom they do not see, but they are patient as He commanded them, and they expect to win the prize as He promised them. Do they not deserve praise?!
I didn't understand all the meanings at the time, but it was as if what my father had said had been etched into my memory.
I later realized that believing in an idea or belief is perhaps the most difficult and most dangerous decision that a person can make in his life. I mean believing in any belief or any idea. When you do, you live according to what you believe in, eat, drink, work, marry, and raise your children on it if they choose the same belief. All in all, you bear the responsibility for your faith, both positively and negatively. It is a very difficult bet.
For us, to believe does not mean to perform rituals and duties, but rather it goes beyond that, in the event that faith was your choice and not an inheritance you inherited, it explains life for you, and explains death for you, and explains for you what comes after death.. "Those who believe in the unseen." (Surat Al-Baqarah: 3).
There is a secret specific to each of us, which each one must realize separately before he dies, even before he loses his ability to move and work with it.
(3)
Is life a secret?!
The strange thing is that we seek to understand the mystery of death and what happens after it, and we have not yet understood the mystery of life and what happens in it.
Certainly, it is not reasonable in this universe, tight in its creation, complex in its composition, and harmonious in its parts, that man - this great being - was created in vain.
There is a general secret for us humans who were sent by God to earth, a common secret that we must understand.
And there is a secret specific to each of us, which each one must realize separately before he dies, even before he loses his ability to move and work with it.
A secret that belongs to you: O Layla, Huda, Hassan, Ismail, whatever you are, whatever your abilities and strengths, whatever your position in society, whatever your job, whatever your position.
There is no organ, device, or cell in the human body that does not have a role, so do you expect that God - the Almighty - created you all in vain, with no role for you, and no importance for you?!
God forbid.
Find out the public secret, discover your own secret;
The whole life will be right for you.. “Did you think that We created you in vain” (Surat Al-Mu’minoon: 115).
How will the people, and the believers among them, behave if they know that there is no death, and therefore there is no reckoning?!
All religions, no matter how much we turn them, have no justification in existence except death, like the mouth's need for bread.
(4)
In his novel The Interruptions of Death, the Portuguese José Saramago supposes that death has ceased to function in a country, and imagines what would happen if we really did not die: what would happen to a family in which an infinite number of old people piled up with what they suffer - of course - From countless diseases, as a result of their vital organs being completely or partially damaged?!
And how will the children behave with the presence of grandparents and great-grandparents, more elderly people will be added to them as the days progress, and each of them needs intensive care after they have been restored to the most despicable age?!
And what about overcrowded hospitals and medical centers with beds whose corridors are not enough for patients, some of whom no longer leave for the “morgue”?!
And what can the government authority concerned with retirement and social security do with this huge number that leaves the labor market, but does not leave life, and everyone has the right to receive salaries that support them in their long and endless lives?!
And how will insurance companies that insure life behave when there is no death?!
And what is the fate of thousands who earn their living from professions related to death, such as grave diggers, and companies preparing for the dead?!
How will the people, and the believers among them, behave if they know that there is no death, and therefore there is no reckoning?!
All religions, no matter how much we turn them, have no justification in existence except death, like the mouth's need for bread.
As Saramago says - on the lips of one of the characters, what does it mean - "What will you write resonant sermons if you do not threaten sinners with hell after death, because there is no longer death?!"
He started to convince us of the benefits of death until critics said that the novel is like an epic in praise of death, and hatred of immortality, which is supposed to be the dream of humans, reaching the conclusion that humanity must accept it as the other face of the coin of life, one cannot live without death, although it appears As an apparent contradiction to life, but in fact we must die in order for life to continue.
All those who were subjected to oppression and disease, and were blown by the winds of life without guilt;
Do they not deserve an alternative life?
(5)
Yes, the believers live with their eyes fixed on the Day of Resurrection, realizing that it will certainly be a difficult day, but they place all their hopes on it: revenge for those who wronged them, the reward they deserved and robbed from them falsely, slanderously and corruptly, their dreams that they failed to achieve despite their good intentions.
Life seems so bleak and so terrifying without a day of resurrection after death.
All those who were subjected to oppression and disease, and were blown by the winds of life without guilt;
Do they not deserve an alternative life?
Those who were martyred, do they not have the right to a better life than ours, as a reward for what they did?
And perhaps if some of them lived to deviate, how many fighters came out putting his soul on his palm, transcendent over all temptations, bearing all threats, and when he triumphed sharply from the road, injustice and tyranny and forced.
How many authors became famous after his death!
How many thinkers his ideas grew after his departure!
Life without death and without resurrection is terrifying.
Yes, death is never the end of the story.
We will not evaporate, it is true that our bodies will decompose, but our souls remain somewhere, we do not know it until the day of judgment.
It's all in the soul, but we care about the body, we care about what will perish at the expense of what remains.
Life is like an illusion, a very short dream, an exam paper you fill with your answers, we call it life, God describes it as the life of the world;
Because real life is not here.
Therefore, life will only be sweetened by death!
(6)
We complain about life, but we don't want it to end!
A young friend, energetic and energetic, sick, crouched in bed, bandaged, dying, tells those around him that he hates death and is ready to live even if it is like this.
Even those who wish their lives to end from the weight of what they suffer mistakenly believe that death is rest, death is not sleep until we rest, it is the separation of the imperishable from the imperishable, the separation of the soul and the body.
The strange thing is that some of us decided to die before we died.
Who commits suicide like a student in an examination hall, suddenly decides to tear up the answer sheet and leave the hall, he has already chosen to fail.
Who interrupted life and asceticism in it almost like a suicide.
Film star Richard Gere said, "It's life, and no one will ever get out of it alive. Enjoy eating good things, go out in the sun, tell the truth in your heart, be crazy, be kind, be different, there's no other time."
(7)
We return from the funeral as if what befell our deceased will never befall us.
In theory, we admit death, but in practice in our daily life we believe that it is very far from us, so the answer sheet often remains empty, we do not fill it with what it should be filled with.
The real bitterness of death in parting.
Losing loved ones is very painful, I don't know why we don't remember that we are following them, it's only a matter of time and we meet.
Is it really, as they say, when our souls ascend, our relatives will be waiting for us?
My dear father, my beloved mother, my dear sister, my friend and teacher Ahmed Yunus, and others and others, they will probably ask us what happened after their departure. I do not think after we are certain of the Day of Resurrection that we will lie to them.
I remember the scene of Duraid Lahham in the play “Your Cup, Homeland” and his father calls him from heaven and asks him about the cause for which he and his companions were martyred, and Duraid lies to his father, as he lied to us by raising slogans that betrayed her and sided with the oppressor.
(8)
The only truth agreed upon by humans over time and across geography is death, but we differed about what comes after death. Those who believe that it is annihilation did not find answers to many questions, and those who believe in the Day of Resurrection realize that in the Resurrection - in itself - adequate answers to many questions, And other questions will raise them to the owner of the Day of Judgment.