The Meaning of His Saying, "And the agony of death comes with the truth. That is what you used to turn away from"
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The Shaykh :[Qaf 50:19] It is an agony that is not the intoxication of drink, nor the intoxication of desire, nor the intoxication of love, nor the intoxication of wealth, nor the intoxication of rank, nor the intoxication of leadership, but it is the agony of separation, the agony of parting from this world, in which a person feels that he has left this world, left the abode of action. In this state, he is not intoxicated because he has left his mother and father, or his wife and children, but he is intoxicated because he has left the abode of action. [Al-Mu'minun 23:99-100] He does not say, "Return us, so that I may return to my wife, or to my mother, or to my father, or to my child, or to my friend," but he says, "Return us, so that I may do good in what I left behind." Allah the Exalted says: [Al-Mu'minun 23:100-101] My brother, I say to myself and I ask Allah the Exalted to soften my heart and your hearts. I say, remember this verse. [Qaf 50:19] This agony, you do not know when it will descend upon you. You do not know if it will descend upon you in the morning or in the evening. You do not know if it will descend upon you soon or far off. You do not know if it will descend upon you while you are on your bed. You do not know if it will descend upon you while you are on the chair of your office. You do not know if it will descend upon you while you are in your car heading to your work, but it is prevented from you. O brother, O Muslim, O believer, O one who is certain, you cannot deny death, for death is witnessed and felt. But procrastination, negligence, and carelessness take hold of you until you exclude the occurrence of death, and it is not far off. "What you are promised is coming." O brothers, I call upon myself and you to always remember this agony. [Qaf 50:19] "That" is either a relative pronoun, meaning "that which you used to turn away from and flee from," but say, [Al-Jumu'ah 62:8] or "that" is a negation, meaning "that which you cannot escape from." And we all know that this is the end of every person.
