Death Is Not Terrifying as Is Imagined
Misguidance is misleading, it makes death terrifying. Death is a change of clothes, or a change of abode. It removes man from dungeon to garden.
Whoever wants life should want martyrdom. The Qur’an describes the martyr’s life. Martyrs, who do not experience the pangs of death, all know themselves to be alive
and see themselves thus. But they find their new lives to be purer. They do not suppose they have died. Note carefully what their relation to the dead is, it is like this:
In a dream two men are walking in a beautiful garden holding every sort of delight.
One knows it is only a dream and receives no pleasure. It does not delight him; it fills him with regret. The other one thinks it is the waking world, and receives true pleasure; it is real to him.
The dream is the shadow of the similitude, and the similitude is the shadow of the Intermediate Realm. It is due to this that their principles resemble each other.