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📌Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Lessons From Qur'an The Effects of Remembering Death and the Resurrection Day Imam Ja'far Sadiq says about the effects of remembering Death and the Resurrection day: • emembering of death suppresses the inordinate desires • It uproots the very foundation of negligence and apathy. • With the reminding of Allah's promise, it strengthens man's heart. • It softens the hard mentality of man. • It demolishes the banners of inordinate desires and transgression.

●It suppresses the evil of greediness and makes the world humble before one's eyes. After that the Holy Imam says, the saying of the Holy Prophet, "A moment's reflection and pondering over is better than one year's worship" ( Biharul Anwar , vol. VI, p. 133) means thinking over and making arrangement for one's future, that is, thinking over his being questioned and his answering, and his accountability in the court of Allah's Justice.

📌We read in the traditions that the most wise and thoughtful are those who keep remembering death all the time. ( Biharul Anwar , vol. VI, p. 135) When the Holy Prophet said that hearts also get rusted like iron, the people asked, "With what substance can it be cleansed?" The Holy Prophet replied: "By remembering death and reciting the Holy Qur'an". Another tradition that is narrated from the Holy Prophet is this: "Remember death frequently for it has four effects. (i) It washes off your sins.

(ii) It reduces your keen fondness for the world. (iii) It checks your indulgence in bad practices and improper use of wealth during the period of affluency. (iv) It makes a man content with whatever little quantity of wealth he has as during poverty his remembering of death makes him realize how he will account before Allah for the wealth he has spent and the deprivation of the people, because he sees that when he has a small quantity of wealth his accountability also would be less".

( Nahjul Fasahat , saying, 444) Imam Ali in connection with a tradition says, "He who remembers death frequently will remain content with whatever httle quantity of wealth he has. He never craves for more and he neither becomes greedy nor miser". ( Biharul Anwar , vol. VI) Actually, the world deceives its own lovers. Anyone who after having the thought of death and the Resurrection Day diverts his heart to the next world, this world's hypocrisies, pomp and show do not allure him towards it.

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