According to a hadith: أَكْثِرُوا ذِكْرَ هَادِمِ اللَّذَّاتِ  (Sunan Ibn Majah 4258) If you remember death, you will realize that this material world has no significance. Achievement and failure in this world are both the same. If you die at 40, 50 or 60 years, you leave behind everything that you achieve here. Remembrance of death tells us about the reality of life. Death informs us about the reality of life. There are two kinds of death: natural death and unnatural death.

What is natural death? When a person reaches 80 or 90 years of age, is bedridden, suffers from illnesses, or is hospitalized, people know that he will soon die. His time of death is near. When they hear that he has died, they consider the event as something inevitable that has happened. This is natural death.

Natural death also serves as a reminder. When we witness natural death, we should think about the reality of life and death. But God also gives us shocking experiences, which we call unnatural death. Unnatural death is when a person dies, for example, accidentally on the road. A young person dies then and there. We get to see expected death and also unexpected death. Expected death is also a reminder about the reality of life. But when a person witnesses unexpected death, that gives him a shock.

God gives unexpected death to a person so that those who are in a state of slumber can wake up. Those who don’t take lessons on seeing natural death are given a shock to rouse them and open their eyes. This kind of death is an eye-opener. What people refer to as untimely death is actually a reminder death.