| Respected all members : Salam alykum : " In a letter (section 9) Imam Ali (a.s) points out that man should not be involved in this transitorylife, rather, he should have in maind that his living here is not permanent: in the near future he has to leave this house for the eternal one. And he is doubtful let him study the cases ofhis friends and relatives and see that this world was notloyal to them. They left every thing here and housed in ahouse in a strange district. He should realize that this, sooner or later, lshall happen to him. He should not sell Hereafter to now. When a person is involved in his daily affairs and he neglects the death and the eternal life,he gets ready for engaging in all sortsof lsins and wrong-doings and surrenders to the temptationsof the Stan and whims and wishes. The most significant factor which could tame his aggressive self is the remembrance of Death and the instability of this world and the events of the next world. It is emphasized in the Islamic traditions to remember death. The Prophet of Islam (saw) has said : " The remembrance of death is thebest piety and worship and thinking. Any body who thinks much on death,he will find his grave as a garden of Paradise". (Bihar, vol. 6, pg. 137). Imam Ali said : " Remember death which is the destroyer of lusts, the terminator of desires, the inviter to separations, the disturber of the aggregates, the announcer of partings and disturbances." Imam Sadiq (a.s) has said : " Death remembrance kills man's desires and dries the fountains of negligence and strengthens man's heart to rely on God's promises and softens the temperament and breaks the flags of sensuality and puts out the fire of greed and depicts the world as miserable and worlthless." There are two groups of people regarding death : First group severely escapes the remembrance of death and these are people who do not believe in the Hereafter and whose behaviors in the world have been indecent. They know that by death they will get deprived of what they have. Imam Husayn (a.s.) once asked : why are we frightened of death and are not interested in it? Imam answered : Because you have destroyed your Hereafter but have constructed your world. That is why you are frightened to move from flourishing condition to ruined condition." The second group includes those who do not fear death. These are people who believe in the hereafter and its assets, who have done their affairs in accordance with the commands of God, who believe that by breaking the cage of the body here, they will enjoy God's party in the Hereafter. Thus, they no only do not fear death , but also consider it sweeter than honey. Imam Ali (a.s) said : The best gift for a believer is death". With regards, Basharat | 
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