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THE EVANESCENT SELF
Every soul is tasting death. (Q3:185)
كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ
From Abi Hurairah, who said, “The Messenger of AL-LAH (may GOD bless him and give him peace) said, ‘Remember much the shearer of delights.’” (Jami’ut-Tirmidhi, Book 36, Hadith 4)
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَكْثِرُوا ذِكْرَ هَاذِمِ اللَّذَّاتِ
Our yearning for permanence is brought up short against the brute fact of death. That fact is not just a future certainty; its presence is as palpable now as a bitter taste on the tongue. It tinges all our experiences with a tint of sepia, a tone of melancholy and imminent loss. But we are told to face it squarely, and then to enlarge its grim visage before our inner eye, for death reminds us not only of the void awaiting us, but also of the vacancy that preceded us.
I created you before, when you were nothing. (Q19:9)
وَقَدْ خَلَقْتُكَ مِنْ قَبْلُ وَلَمْ تَكُنْ شَيْئًا
We are like a question mark enclosed before and after by dark ellipses of unknowing, but even our ‘mark’ advances and recedes and changes shape like wavy lines the sea inscribes and then deletes in constant questioning upon the sand.
Indeed, We did create mankind from an extract of clay. / And then We made him as a sperm drop in a deeply rooted lodging. / Then We made the drop a clinging clot, and then We made the clot a lump of meat, and then We made the lump as bones, and then We dressed the bones in flesh, and then We raised it as another creature. Blessed be AL-LAH, the best Creator! / Then after that you will indeed be dead. / Then on the Day of Resurrection you will surely be awakened. (Q23:12-16)
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الإِنسَانَ مِنْ سُلاَلَةٍ مِنْ طِينٍ
ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَاهُ نُطْفَةً فِي قَرَارٍ مَكِينٍ
ثُمَّ خَلَقْنَا النُّطْفَةَ عَلَقَةً فَخَلَقْنَا الْعَلَقَةَ مُضْغَةً فَخَلَقْنَا الْمُضْغَةَ عِظَامًا فَكَسَوْنَا الْعِظَامَ لَحْمًا ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَاهُ خَلْقًا آخَرَ فَتَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ الْخَالِقِينَ
ثُمَّ إِنَّكُمْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ لَمَيِّتُونَ
ثُمَّ إِنَّكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ تُبْعَثُونَ
Notice the shift from the generic third-person mankind undergoing its various phases of embryonic development to the second-person you after being raised as another creature. But this you is immediately linked to death and then resurrection, as if admission to a personal identity comes with a price and a destination. It is by this transience, in contrast to the permanence of divinity, that we finally come to know ourselves as persons distinct from GOD’s Eternal Personality.
Truly you are dying, and indeed they too are dying. (Q39:30)
إِنَّكَ مَيِّتٌ وَإِنَّهُمْ مَيِّتُونَ
The GOD You Already Know 
A beautiful comment mentioned here shows great depth and belief in the Akhira or afterlife and meeting God or fatal void for unbelievers : ” for death reminds us not only of the void awaiting us , but also of the vacancy that preceded us.”
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