Now let us see why human beings fear non-existence and non-being.

Now let us see why human beings fear non-existence and non-being. The reason is clear. Existence is woven into existence. Being is familiar with being. Being is never familiar with non-being. Thus, our alienation from non-being is completely natural. If we believe and know that death is the end of everything and assume that with death, everything ends, have a right to fear it and even be terribly frightened by the mention of the word. Why? Because death will take everything from us.

But if we believe death to be the beginning of a new and eternal life, we will not have that fear; rather, we congratulate those who, with dignity and nobility, move towards it. 2. Black Files We all know of a group who do not interpret death as being annihilation and non-being and they would deny life after death but in spite of this, they have a great fear of death. Why? Because the file of their deeds is so black they are afraid of the punishments after death; they have a right to fear death.

They are like prisoners who fear the day they will be freed from prison because they know that when they are freed from prison, they will be executed. He sticks to the prison bars, not that he is afraid of freedom, he is afraid of freedom whose result is a punishment of execution. In this way, a person who does evil deeds fears the freeing of his spirit from the ness of his body and knows this to be the beginning of his punishment and chastisement for his evil deeds and his oppression.

But those who neither see death to be annihilation nor do they have files of black deeds, why should they fear death? They are also people who love being alive but to gain more benefits for their new life in a world after death for they welcome death which comes upon their goal which is well-pleasing to the Nourisher. Two Different Points of View We have said that people are of two kinds, one group of which forms the majority who fear and hate death.

But another group welcomes death if it is upon the way of their great goal like martyrdom upon the Way of God, or at least when they sense that their life is near the end, they never allow fear to enter their hearts. The reason is that they have two different points of view.

The first group: they either have absolutely no belief in life after death or if they believe in it, they have not really, as yet, accepted this belief, thus they believe the moment of death to be the moment to bid farewell to all things.