Waking up the Next Morning Every night before sleeping a man should remember his death and ask for forgiveness for his sins thinking that...
Waking up the Next Morning
Every night before sleeping a man should remember his death and ask for forgiveness for his sins thinking that it is quiet possible that he would not be able to rise again. In this process of sleep there is guidance and instruction for man, sleep is called the sister of death. At midnight if we visit the graveyards or the big cities we would find a similar stillness (motionless) and quietness in both the places. Sleep is similar to death, there are many people who die in their sleep they may die of a heart attack, or an earthquake, or a poisonous animal might bite them. Thus when a man goes to bed he should remember his death and repent on his sins and seek forgiveness. Similarly when he wakes up from his sleep he should bow his head before God in adoration (respect) and remember his death again.
God had roused him from sleep without any harm to his life but it is equally possible that this might be the last day of his life and he should thus avail (reward) this opportunity and seek forgiveness of his sins and repent his evil deeds.
In the same manner if possible a man should visit the graveyard daily and meditate for some time on his plight when he himself would be buried under tons of mud and sand, a place where there would be not a single beam of light and no air to breath. It is true that the remembrance of death teach us the lessons of purity, abstemiousness and humanity. Only those people dare to commit sin, which are forgetful of their death.
