Crux of the Quran

One positive contribution of death is that it compels you to live in contentment, and contentment is the only source of peace and a tension-free life. In fact, the desire for more and more is an outcome of unawareness about death and contentment is a result of awareness of this universal fact.

Death serves as a regulator of life. Death serves as a positive teacher of every human being. The concept of death controls desires. Death enables one to live a healthy and constructive life.

The concept of death serves as a speed breaker in one’s life. Death makes people adopt a realistic approach. Death reminds one of one’s limitations. Death dispels all those negative desires, death is like a corrective measure in one’s life, the concept of death serves as a check and balance force in life.

Death serves as a regulator of life. Death serves as a positive teacher of every human being. The concept of death controls desires. Death enables one to live a healthy and constructive life.

The concept of death compulsorily makes you live a purposeful life, it makes you set your target and priorities, and then exert all your energy and time for that target. One who is aware of the reality of death, cannot afford to live a purposeless life. Death is not a negative event in one’s life; it has a completely positive lesson.

If you go through the Quran in quest of its central message—or the crux of the scripture—you will certainly discover an important point on which the Quran lays great emphasis, that is, its concept of falah. There are other similar words used by the Quran such as fawz, etc. Both falah and fawz mean success. According to the Quran, the truly successful are those and only those who are destined to find success in the Hereafter.

Two well-known terms are very helpful in understanding the Quranic point of view. These terms are ‘promotion’ and ‘break in service’. After a long period of service, one is given promotion. Promotion brings better salary and better perks. According to the Quran, the day one dies is the final day when one receives promotion.

In our present world, we have been given all kinds of natural amenities and the best possible life support system. It is like mini-Paradise in which all the things we have been given are there to test us. One who proves, by his good behaviour, in such an environment that he is fit be admitted to Paradise will be selected and promoted to the eternal life of the next, ideal world.

This promotion is based on the record of the pre-death period of life. The present world is also like a paradise, in that it has all those good things which will be given in Paradise, the only difference being that the present world is an imperfect paradise, while the paradise to come will be perfect.