"Be it known to you that you are created for the next world and not for this. You are born to die and not to live forever. Your stay in this world is temporary. You live in a place which is subject to decay and destruction.
It is a place where you will have to be busy getting ready for the next world. It is a road (to the next world) on which you are standing.
Death is following you. You cannot run away from it. However how hard you may try to avoid it, it is going to catch you sooner or later.
Therefore, take care that it may not catch you unaware and unprepared and no chance is left to you to repent the vices and sins committed and undo the harm done by you. If death catches you unaware then you are eternally damned. Therefore, always keep three things in mind: death, your deeds and actions, and the life hereafter. In this way you will be always ready to face death and it will not catch you unaware.
- Imam Ali (a.s.)
(from the Nahjul Balagha - Peak of Eloquence)
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