D.E.A.T.H

               Death. It is a just a word, isn’t it? The question is: how many people are fully prepared for it? Are you having the guts to face it?

              I am not trying to scare you and make you afraid of it, but I want to state my point of view about it.

             It is a process of life. That’s a fact. Everyone, male or female, young or old, rich or poor, king or citizen, will soon, dies. Even the most powerful and influential person in the world, dies.

                When I looked films, movies, and dramas, I always seen one, or more than one, died. That’s a common scene. One movie made me feeling sick. There is a lot of blood ooze out, corpse laying everywhere, screaming witnesses. The westerners think that they can make death as a joke. For me, they didn’t deserve the award they got. Lots of methods they use to replicate ‘how-to-die’ manuals. CGIs. Thank to technology, all imaginations from the directors become realities. That includes this film. Falling down from a high building, accidents, being hit by logs, vehicles, explosions, fires, glass, and laser. Did I mention choking foods and acid? Yup, humans can ‘created’ death, but none of them can be compared to the power of The Giver of Death. Allah created us, and to Him we will return. The film may indicate the ability of human to act and create something beyond norm circumstance. For me, it’s just a proof that the film reckons and makes the viewers believe that ‘we can escape from death’. We cannot cheat death. It is surely happened to each and every of us. Where? When? How? Allah knows better.

                     Again, tech tools implement the capability of humans nowadays to ‘create’ death. When I visited a cafe, I saw several teenagers playing computer games. According to them, these games are connected to other computers via LAN connection. Online gaming. I saw weapons, equipments and armoury that being use by the virtual characters. First-player shooting (FPS) games and Role-playing (RPG) games. Next, a gamer sitting beside me screaming sadly: “Shoot, I’m down”. Curiously, I watch the status on screen. “You’re dead”. Curiosity kills the cat, remember? Luckily, I’m not a cat. I’m a human, same as you.  This scene makes me have a thought:  game always ended by a death. Am I right? Either the main character or the badass dies, gamers enjoy it. Respawning. That’s a term to define death in a gaming world. Even if ‘you’ die, you can still press the CONTINUE icon and replay the game. Yay! Keep playing the game until you have satisfied yourself. Until the calling of the death come besides you, there’s nothing to do. No more repentance can be done. It can’t be delayed. No more second chance.

                     As long as you keep track on what you do and how did you spend your daily activities, there is no need to worry. We have own our ‘life-tracking bookkeepers’; the right side and the left side, haven’t we? I am just a merely normal human, a spectator. I am a watcher, from televisions to published presses, remember?

In the Holy Quran, Allah has given us a fact:

كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ ۗ وَإِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَ أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ۖ فَمَن زُحْزِحَ عَنِ النَّارِ وَأُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ فَازَ ۗ وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورِ 

Every soul shall have a taste of death: And only on the Day of Judgment shall you be paid your full recompense. Only he who is saved far from the Fire and admitted to the Garden will have attained the object (of Life): For the life of this world is but goods and chattels of deception.

                                                                        ( 185:3, سورة آل عمران) 

May Allah bless us and give us signs before it’s too late.

Peace.
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Credits to:-

1)      Main Source - “The Holy Quran” by Allah, The Compassionate God

2)      Movie - ‘Final Destination 4’

3)      Game - ‘Counter-Strike v.10’

4)      Game – ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’

5)      My friend who played the game