1665 - اليَقينُ بِالمَوتِ‏

1665. HAVING CERTAINTY IN DEATH

(كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ وَإِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَ أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فَمَنْ زُحْزِحَ عَنِ النَّارِ وَأُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ فَازَ وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورِ) .¹

"Every soul shall taste death, and you will indeed be paid your full rewards on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever is delivered from the Fire and admitted to paradise has certainly succeeded. The life of this world is nothing but the wares of delusion." ²

5834.الإمامُ الصّادقُ عليه السلام - في قولهِ تعالى‏: (قُلْ إنّ المَوتَ الّذي تَفِرّونَ مِنهُ فإنّهُ مُلاقِيكُم ...)³ - : تَعُدُّ السِّنينَ ، ثُمّ تَعُدُّ الشُّهورَ، ثُمّ تَعُدُّ الأيّامَ ، ثُمّ تَعُدُّ السّاعاتِ ، ثُمّ تَعُدُّ النّفَسَ (فإذا جاءَ أجَلُهُمْ لا يَسْتَأخِرونَ ساعَةً ولا يَسْتَقدِمونَ)⁴.⁵

5834. Imam al-Sadiq (AS), with regard to Allah's verse in the Qur'an: "Say, 'Indeed the death that you flee will indeed encounter you." ⁶ , said, 'Years are counted, then months, then days, then hours, then breaths "When their time comes, they shall not defer it by a single hour nor shall they advance it." ⁷⁸

5835.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : ما رَأيتُ إيماناً مَع يَقينٍ أشبَهَ مِنهُ بشَكٍّ على‏ هذا الإنسانِ ؛ إنّهُ كُلَّ يَومٍ يُوَدِّعُ إلَى القُبورِ ويُشَيِّعُ ، وإلى‏ غُرورِ الدّنيا يَرجِعُ، وعنِ الشَّهوَةِ والذُّنوبِ لا يُقلِعُ ، فلَو لَم يَكُن لابنِ آدمَ المِسكينِ ذَنبٌ يَتَوَكَّفُهُ ولاحِسابٌ يَقِفُ علَيهِ إلّا مَوتٌ يُبَدِّدُ شَملَهُ ويُفَرِّقُ جَمعَهُ ويُوتِمُ وُلدَهُ ، لَكانَ يَنبَغي لَهُ أن يُحاذِرَ ما هُوَ فيهِ بأشَدِّ النَّصَبِ والتّعَبِ .⁹

5835.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'I have never seen a kind faith that comes with certainty more resembling than the doubt of the human being. Every day he entrusts bodies to the graves and goes to funeral processions, but he returns to the delusion of the world, and he does not relinquish desires and sins. If the poor son of Adam did not have a single sin to deviate him and no reckoning to contemplate with than death that scatters his union, disunites his congregation, orphans his children then it would be a must for him to be cautious of what he is in with the greatest of exhaustion and hardship.' ¹⁰

5836.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام - مِن وَصاياهُ لابنِهِ الحسنِ عليه السلام - : اعلَمْ يا بُنَيَّ أنَّكَ إنّما خُلِقتَ للآخِرَةِ لا للدُّنيا ، وللفَناءِ لا للبَقاءِ ، وللمَوتِ لا للحَياةِ ، وأ نَّكَ في قُلعَةٍ ودارِ بُلغَةٍ وطَريقٍ إلَى الآخِرَةِ ، وأنّكَ طَريدُ المَوتِ الّذي لايَنجو مِنهُ هارِبُهُ ، ولا يَفوتُهُ طالِبُهُ ، ولابُدَّ أنّهُ مُدرِكُهُ ، فكُن مِنهُ على‏ حَذَرٍ أن يُدرِكَكَ وأنتَ على‏ حالٍ سَيِّئةٍ ، قد كنتَ تُحَدِّثُ نفسَكَ مِنها بالتَّوبَةِ فيَحولُ بينَكَ وبينَ ذلكَ، فإذا أنتَ قد أهلَكتَ نفسَكَ .¹¹

5836. Imam Ali (AS), in his will to Imam al-Hasan (AS) said, 'My son, know that you have been created for the next world and not for this world, and for annihilation and not to stay, for death and not for life; you are in a transient place, a place which is a path to the Hereafter. You are running away from death from which no one can run away from and which none of its seekers can miss. It has to be experienced so beware lest it catches up with you while you are in a bad state, while you were promising yourself to repent for the sin, but it did not allow you to repent and it made you perish.' ¹²

5837.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : أنتُم طُرَداءُ المَوتِ ، إن أقَمتُم لَهُ أخَذَكُم ، وإن فَرَرتُم مِنهُ أدرَكَكُم ، وهُو ألزَمُ لَكُم مِن ظِلِّكُم ، المَوتُ مَعقودٌ بنَواصيكُم .¹³

5837.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'You are running away from death. If you resist it, it will take you, and if you run from it, it will catch you. It is more stuck to you than your own shadow. Death is attached to your forelocks.' ¹⁴

5838.الإمامُ الصّادقُ عليه السلام : ما خَلقَ اللَّهُ عزّوجلّ يَقيناً لا شَكَّ فيهِ أشبَهَ بشَكٍّ لا يَقينَ فيهِ مِن المَوتِ .¹⁵

5838.Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, 'Allah has not created certainty devoid of doubt more similar to a doubt devoid of certainty like death.' ¹⁶