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The Purpose of Death

The vastness of this world when compared to the narrow space in mother's womb is like vastness of the barzakh i.e. the interim period between death and resurrection when compared to the life in the world. And so is the vastness of the hereafter when compared to the barzakh. A child in the foetal form thinks that his mother's womb is the entire world.

If he were to think and be asked about his exit from the womb, he might say that it would mean sure death. If the embryo consisted of twins and one was born before the other, the second one who was born late would say that his co-brother had died and been buried in an unknown place. He would have wept if he had seen his co-brothers placenta thrown among the refuse in the same manner as a mother would cry over the dead body of her son. A mother who tries to keep her son clean and sees him being buried in the earth breaks down at that moment. She does not realize that this body is like the placenta; it is like a dirty shirt that needs to be thrown away. It is a garment whose life is over and no longer needed.

This is death. It is, in fact, a new birth. It is an exit into another stage which is longer and wider in terms of time and space. And this world is only a place of transit.

Grave; Sleep and Death
Sleeping is considered to be the smaller death it is so similar to the real death in which soul leaves body. This asleep may see now a disturbing dream and wishes to escape from it or a nice dream and wishes not to end. But his body is here and didn't move and we can't know what he is seeing.

There are too many things that our senses can't perceive. For example the apparatus which is made to protect us from harmful animals spread sound waves which are too disturbing and agonizing to these animals however, our senses can't perceive it.
The grave that lies before us for thousands of years, the man inside is in happiness or sadness, but we can't see or hear what he feels because he is in another world not like our world. It is not the world of dreams but it is much bigger and wider one, it is the world of barzakh (isthmus), a world that separates between our world and the eternal hereafter.

What does the dead see?
We hear about the paradise and what is there from delight and enjoyment and we hear about the hell and what is there from misery and torture, but do we know the form of the paradise and the type of enjoyment there or do we know the form of the hell and the type of torture there?
When a dead is put in his grave a window to the paradise or the hell is opened to him. This window is not like the windows we know but it is unseen window from the hereafter which only dead people can see.

Here the dead see the paradise in reality not imagination. Not only that but also he receives its enjoyments and delights till the Day of Resurrection.
And as the prophet (PBUH) said the period that passes on the dead is like the period between Al-zuhr and Al-aasr prayer which is about 3 hours.

And don’t be astonished that a period of thousands of years can pass in only 3 hours, because the man doesn't feel time passing when he is happy and vice versa.
 
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