Yeah, Don’t have answer for that.
But Isn’t that silly. We are scared of death because it carry us apart from loved ones or it separates loved ones from us.
But if every one dies at same time, what to scared of??
Like some one said “every one’s profit is no ones profit”. (in this case loss)
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I don’t think , We are just scared of death as it will take us apart from our loved ones ~
More or less , we are scared of the sins committed and insufficiency of good deeds in our luggage
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Lets just think about non muslims to put things in perspective.
Christians practically don't have any fear of hell, What scares them?
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It's fear of the unknown and the uncertainty that accompanies the idea of afterlife, at least for me. Ideally if your faith in God is strong enough and you do things by the book you shouldn't be scared. But then good luck finding people who do.
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We are scared because what we adhere to here, is dearer to us than Almighty Allah and The beloved Prophet Sal Allah o Aleh Wa Alehe Wasalam. The success for the life hereafter lies in the concept of dying before the death actually takes you away. Ever tried that? I bet it wont be that scary then. Not scary at all, rather.
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Let us ask those who are scared. I am not. I know it will come at the precise moment then no body will be able to save me.
I had been in a situation two times where armed robbers were pointing gun to my head. Even at that time Alhumdulillah I was not scared. People say that while a gun is pointed out to wards your head , your whole life flashes in your mind , it did not happen to me. I was thinking with the grace of Allah that this is not the time for me to die. I was not even reciting any ayat or kalima during those holdups. In one case I did what the robbers told me to do , but calmly and coolly. In other case I did not even do what they were asking but in this case a whole group of people were at gun point I was one of that group of people.
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People say that while a gun is pointed out to wards your head , your whole life flashes in your mind , .
Dude, its when some one pull the trigger.
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Let us ask those who are scared. I am not. I know it will come at the precise moment then no body will be able to save me. I had been in a situation two times where armed robbers were pointing gun to my head. Even at that time Alhumdulillah I was not scared. People say that while a gun is pointed out to wards your head , your whole life flashes in your mind , it did not happen to me. I was thinking with the grace of Allah that this is not the time for me to die. I was not even reciting any ayat or kalima during those holdups. In one case I did what the robbers told me to do , but calmly and coolly. In other case I did not even do what they were asking but in this case a whole group of people were at gun point I was one of that group of people.
Would you mind describing the incidents in detail?
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foobe move out of the area you live in. I mean twice? isn't that too much?
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[quote=mirage;5619632The success for the life hereafter lies in the concept of dying before the death actually takes you away. Ever tried that? I bet it wont be that scary then. Not scary at all, rather.[/quote]
May be this is what I felt. I do not know Allah knows. I was not scared or panicked. It is not that I was very religious or pious person at that time. Alhumdulillah I strive to follow the religion with much more zeal now as compared to the times of those incidents.
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fobee sounds like karachi??
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foobe move out of the area you live in. I mean twice? isn't that too much?
I did move , one incident happened in Pakistan , the other one in USA but I did not move because of those incidents. I moved because of other reasons.
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^hmmm I got death threats few times, but never ever some one had a gun pointed at me.
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fobee sounds like karachi??
Yes second one was Karachi. but it was a holdup at a business where I happend to be for recieving money for the work my company did for that business. I was paid. The money was in my pocket , the robbers asked everybody to empty their pockets , but by the time it would be my turn they left abruptly.
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Would you mind describing the incidents in detail?
Some more details. First incident in Karachi:
I was at a business went there to receive the money for the services my company performed for that business. They paid me and I signed the receipt the money was in my pocket all in the form of cash thousand of rupees.
All of a sudden four gunmen appeared and asked everybody to go in one corner there were about 15 people in that room , then one gunman checked other rooms to bring out other people to this hall where we all were. In the meantime one robber ordered everybody to empty their pockets. The fourth robber went to the cashier and asked for money.
While the people in this room were emptying their pockets the robber who went to the cashier's room came out with loads of cash and asked his partners in crime to go , as their job at was done.
The second incident USA. I was managing a drug store for a big drug stores chain , it was closing time I was emptying/closing the pharmacy cash register when this robber appeared from no where and pointed the gun to me took the money I had just gotten out of the pharmacy register and then took me to the manager's office at gun point asked me to open the safe which was combination safe for staging the money for change and deposits , most of the money was in the bottom of the staging safe which can only be opened while the armored car comes in the morning they have the other key. But the staging safe is combination safe , I used to leave it open in preparedness of this kind of situation , I would think if I got panicked and could not open the safe in time then would be robbers will surely shoot me. There were two of them , one had my closing person on gun point the other one was holding me.
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Now analyze this , why was I not scared at those two very dangerous moments of my life ? As I said I was not very religeous at those times. But I had one conviction that I cannot die if Allah does not want me to.
I have another incident of one of a friend of a friend's wife , who was shot at during robbery of their store the bullent landed in her brain but she is alive and well happend in USA. They moved to Pakistan after the incident. In karachi he started money exchange. He was getting out of his car at his home after a hard day's work two robbers robbed him. he gave them the brief case with all the money in it but they insisted that this guy has more money he said to them that I have given you all I had now " goli marna hay to mar day , agar Allah na chahay ga to main nahi maray ga' .
The robbers got scared of his boldness and bravery. This guy had a background he had a wife with a bullet in her head so he knew it is Allah who decides who's time it is to go.
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end of world not what scares, what scares is the wrong thing that people portray it in their lives.
people equate it with the thought that the mindless dectruction and hatred, ignorance and torture is what signifies end of the world and they feel that this is ordained and so they contribute in that.
that is a sick way of thinking and causing self-destruction.
the real end of the world, is a scheme of Allah swt, no one knows how and when it will be. no?
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As allah said "mountains would be like puffs of cotton"
It so sound like a meteor shower is gonna end us all.
Once I saw an astronomer describing end of earth, It remind me assembly in my school where they often read that surah where God tell us the scenario of destruction of earth.