It makes me say my prayers on time and do right things. After all that is our destination.
The Quran should be enough for this purpose :)
Every soul shall taste of death, and you shall only be paid fully your reward on the resurrection day; then whoever is removed far away from the fire and is made to enter the garden he indeed has attained the object; and the life of this world is nothing but a provision of vanities.
[3: 185]
*Wherever you are, death will overtake you, though you are in lofty towers, and if a benefit comes to them, they say: This is from Allah; and if a misfortune befalls them, they say: This is from you. Say: All is from Allah, but what is the matter with these people that they do not make approach to understanding what is told (them)? *
[4: 78]
And the trumpet shall be blown, when lo ! from their graves they shall hasten on to their Lord.
[36: 51]
And when the graves are laid open, Every soul shall know what it has sent before and held back.
[82: 4-5]
a couple of weeks back, someone emailed me these really disturbing pics from someone who'd been taken out of the grave a couple of hours post buriel. Iv'e never posted it bcoz i'm not sure how authentic the images are... but the pics do go well with what iv'e heard of what happens to ppl punished in their graves... apparently the kid (19 yr old) was lazy with his prayers, and was bad to his parents...
there was a discussion about those pics. they're from Bahrain i think and they were dismissed as being just a hoax because the kid is wearing a short and a white short-sleeve shirt if i recall correctly, which are not the dress worn when u bury a person. It does serve the purpose of reminding us about the ultimate destination though.
hahaha... it must be like the middle of the nigth in amreeka! i was gonna pray isha soon and go to bed... aap ke haaN tahajjud ka wakht ho hi gaya ho ga?