Tazkiyatun nafs (Purifying our soul)

The Most Valuable Asset to Mankind is Time

Death can caught you at any time and any place. Remembering or contemplating death in Islam is one of the main and ultimate ways to purify our heart. I found that many riches and pious people, and people that have great positive energy are those who constantly remembering death.

We’re often hear story about turning point of someone which associated with their near death experience. We called it also a second chance experience. But, we all know that no one has a certainty that everybody will have a second chance in life.

Although some said it’s a scary thought, but by remembering death we’ll be able question again, what is the purpose of our life and is there life after death? And secondly, we’ll be able to rethink and refocus on that purpose of life, and not just wasting our time for something that doesn’t have benefit in our life and especially the afterlife.

That’s what I see in eddy on the deen show. By the way, eddy is the host of a great show about Islam called ‘The Deen Show’ (you can check it on youtube). After I followed and watched several video clip of him on that show, I felt that he has a great awareness on death. That awareness doesn’t make him feel depress or negative but on the contrary it makes him has a great positive energy to spread the good message. Which is Islam.

Second example is still from that show. Which is a conversion to Islam story by Baba ali. One of the ‘AHA’ moment in baba ali story is when he waited his father at the hospital. So, The doctor had said that his father only have a few days left, and baba is waiting his father when supposedly his plan is to go to a Islamic camp to learn about Islam. While his waiting, he think that death can come to anyone regardless of how old they are. Including no one can guarantee that death will come to his father first. So, then he decided to go to that camp, even though his mother was totally against it. And finally Alhamdulillah (All praise to Allah) that day became his first turning point to Islam.