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Human life is like a lamp kept in the wind.  

An old man is the lamp of dawn, and a young man is the lamp of evening.  

Just as a lamp kept in the wind depends on just one gust of wind, human life also depends on just one moment.  

In the blink of an eye a person reaches from this world to the next world.  

What is life, a tiny flickering lamp  

That one gust comes and puts it out.  

Or a trembling tear on the eyelash of grief  

A blink mixes it into the dust.  

Just as a tear sits on the eyelash of one who cries, and with one blink it mixes into the dust, this is the matter of human life.  

A saying of a knower is that the world without death is not worth even a penny.  

Some young men came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and asked, O Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, who is the most intelligent and wise among people? He said:  

The person who remembers death often.  

The person who prepares for death the most.  

These are the wise people. They have taken the honor of this world and the greatness of the hereafter.  

Remember the thing that ends pleasures. The companions asked, O Prophet of Allah, what is the thing that ends pleasures? He said, the thing that ends pleasures is death.  

Hazrat Aaysha rz once asked the Prophet, O Prophet of Allah, will anyone also be resurrected with the martyrs? He said, yes, the one who remembers his death twenty times in a day and night.  

Just as no intelligent person builds a house on a bridge, similarly the people of Allah do not attach their hearts to this world.  

Sayyiduna Hazrat Siddeeqe Akbar rz said, O man, you are busy with the goods of the world and the world is busy in taking you out of it. Rather your worldly houses are very spacious and wide. If only your grave after death would be spacious, long and wide.  

Even if we forget death, still everything in the world is giving us the message of perishability.  

The sun rises daily and then sets, meaning it disappears. And while setting it gives us the message, O man, one day the sun of your life will also set like this.  

A seed of a tree is sown, first it becomes a tiny small plant, then it takes the form of a trunk and tree, and finally it is cut and burned or takes the form of furniture. In the same way, the tree is also giving us a message, O man, one day your existence too will not remain.  

It means whatever thing is given life is told that this life has been given to end. Someone asked Aflatoon, what was the cause of that man’s death? He said, his life.