The news of Irrfan Khan's death came as a shock to a lot of us. It is interesting that while we get upset about the passing of someone we like we somehow forget the reality of our own mortality. We can very easily talk about other people's death, but we don't want to think about death of our own body (the soul does not die). And one of the primary reasons why we don't want to think about death is because we all have heard about the torments of grave. Whether we decide to think about death or not, death will come in its own time and things will happen exactly as our beloved the truthful Rasulullaah (s) has narrated to us.
One of the best science fiction writers of all times Isaac Asimov was once asked in an interview what will happen to you when you die? He answered: "Nothing. Nothing will happen to me when I die. I will just turn into dust." It is as one prominent late scholar said that all this knowledge and fame didn't make this person any better than the illiterate Arab Beduyin 1400 years ago. And Allaah says in the Qur'an that these people will say on the day of judgment that we did not have any intellect.
Being Muslims do we want to end up like the person who has to say that he does not have any intellect? We all have the advantage of mind to think yet we just do not use it the way we are supposed to. Why does our knowledge of the punishments and trials of the grave do not make us any different from these disbelievers? It is only natural as we rarely if at all think about death.
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