Life & Death

By Harun Yahya
Death may catch up with you anytime. Who knows, maybe this is the moment. Or, it may be much closer than you have ever expected.

These lines can be the last opportunity, the last reminder, the last warning before death comes upon you. As you proceed with these liens, you can never know that you will still be alive in the next hour. Even if it proves to be so nothing can guarantee you another hour. Let alone an hour, not even after a moment, it is certain that you will be still living. There is no guarantee that you will ever finish reading this book. Death will, most likely, come upon you at a time when, only a moment before, you never thought about dying. You will absolutely die, so do all you beloved ones. Before you or after you, they will certainly die. A hundred years by now, there will not be a single soul you are familiar with in this world.

From the pen of the late, famous scholar Shaykh Muhammad Mitwalli al-Sha’rawi. The question of the end of the world is a topic which has captured the interest of all, including scientists and the pseudo-scientists who offer theoretical predictions about how the world will come to an end. Such theories change on a regular basis because they are not based on true knowledge, which is to be found only in Allah’s Revelation. In this book Shaykh Al-Sha’rawi points out the contrast between the changing perspective of the human being and immutable universe in which he lives and which provides the human being with evidence of his Creator. He also points out how the apparent stability of the universe can delude someone lacking belief in the Creator so that he fails to realise the true nature of existence, the transience of the human being and the necessity of awakening from the delusion of his own power before death forces him to wake up.