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Living in the Great Blessings of God
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Gopinath Pandurang Munde (12 December 1949—3 June 2014) was a senior political leader of India. In the general elections held in May 2014 he achieved a spectacular victory and was selected as a cabinet minister in the union government. On June 4, 2014 he was to take charge of his ministry. But only one day before, that is, on June 3, he suffered a road accident and died on the spot.
Death is everyone’s fate. No one can
escape from dying.
That day Gopinath Munde was on his way to the Indira Gandhi International Airport to fly to Mumbai. He was going to address a victory rally scheduled in Beed and Parali in Maharashtra. But before reaching the airport, his end came about. Thus, Gopinath Munde left behind all his success of the pre-death period and entered the post-death period all alone.
This is not the case of a single person, it is the case of every man and woman. Every person tries hard to build a world of his own. But before attending his victory day celebrations, he dies at the point of no return. Death is everyone’s fate. No one can escape from dying. There is a verse in the Quran in the chapter Al-‘Ankabut (The Spider):
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Every soul shall taste death. (29:57)
This is the law of nature and there is no exception to this law. Death reminds us that the present world is not our final abode. We have to prepare ourselves for the world hereafter. Death is only a reminder of the fact that everyone is doomed to enter the other world.
The Quran, in the chapter Al-Nahl (Bees), refers to God’s three special blessings for man in these words:
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He created man out of a [mere] drop of sperm: yet he shows himself to be openly contentious! He has created cattle for you: from them you derive food and clothing and numerous other benefits; how pleasant they look when you bring them home in the evenings and when you take them out to pasture in the mornings. They carry your loads to places which you could otherwise not reach without great hardship—surely, your Lord is compassionate and merciful—He has created horses, mules and donkeys, so that you may ride them, and also so that they may be put on show, and He creates what you do not know. (16:4-8)
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