Islamic Thoughts

• ANALYSES
• 1 How Islam Teaches Exemplary Behavior toward Non-Muslims
• 2 September 11 (2001) Attacks on America not Compatible with Islam
• 3 Ways To Defuse Religious Tensions
• 4 The Value Of The Ten Commandments
• 5 Bright Spot Of The Us Constitution: Religious Freedom
• 6 Lessons from the Prophet's Hudaibiah Treaty.
• 7 Rulers' Roles in Promotion of Christianity.
• 8 Exploring a model definition of 'religion'
• 9 Where islam stands as a civilized religion?
• 10 Proving God's existence through experimental science.
• 11 Roles of man as necessary & God as sufficient condition.
• 12 Human kindness is a Reflection of God's Kindness.
• 13 Why islam is the best choice for the Africans?
• 14 In Old Age, All Roads Lead To Death.
• 15 No Creations Are Without Purposes & Uses.
• 16 Prayer Prevents People From Bad Actions.
• 17 When Haram May Be Excusable: Five-Step Conditions.
• 18 Islamization Of Some Un-Islamic Cultures.
• 19 Greater The Faith, Tougher The Test.
• 20 How Science Can Make A Difference For Muslims?
• 21 The Time Gap Reality Between Sin & Punishment.
• 22 Good & Bad Days Alternate In Cyclic Order.
• 23 Let Moon-Sighting Unite & Not Divide The Muslims.
• 24 Faith Crisis Among Some Intellectuals.
• 25 Islamic Policy Toward Animals.
• 26 Improving The Muslim Performance (Aamal) Standard.
• ARGUMENTS
• 27 How Middle Course Better Than Conservative And Liberal Extremes?
• 28 Why God Is The Best One To Be Worshipped?
• 29 Costs And Benefits Of Belief In The Afterlife
• 30 Bible Is Similar To Hadith But Different From Quran
• 31 Defaming Islam: Freedom Of Speech Or Violation Of Rights?
• 32 How Islam Compares With Democracy?
• 33 Who Is Responsible For '0' Small Pox Since 1980?
• 34 Timeliness Is The Leading Condition For Prayer.
• 35 Ten Arguments For Women's Education.
• 36 Why Physical Fitness Matters For The Muslims?
• 37 Homosexuality Vs Adultery: Which Is Worse And How?
• 38 Countering Abortionist Argument
• 39 Which Is Better: Open Or Secret Prayer?
• 40 Small Or Large Recitation: Which Is Better In Prayer?
• 41 Personal Or Social Suffering: Which Is More Painful & Why?
• 42 Cultural Slavery Vs Cultural Diffusion.
• 43 Why Should America Ban Religious Defamation?
• ASSORTMENTS
• 44 Visible Action Of Invisible God: From Author's Diary.
• 45 Optional Good Deeds Are Like Bodyguards For Compulsory Ones.
• 46 The Gravitation Law Of Performance (Not One Of Newton).
• 47 The Theory Of Relativity (Not That Of Einstein).
• 48 In Good Deeds, "Slow and Steady Wins the Race"
• 49 "Rob Peter to pay Paul" is not for islam
• 50 Muslims Cannot Be "Penny Wise And Pound Foolish".
• 51 Islam Endorses Salad Bowl & Not Melting Pot Theory.
• 52 100% Homosexuality Means Prospect Of 'O' World Population.
• 53 Sinning In Teens To 40's & Suffering From 50's To Death.
• 54 Revenge May Be Lower But Not Greater Than Harm.
• 55 Why Karl Marx Is Irrelevant Forever?
• 56 Is God The Same One For All Religions?
• 57 How God Controls Economy And Livelihood?
• 58 How Muslim Repression In Myanmar Violates Buddhist Principles?
• MISCELLANEOUS
• 59 Grim Reality of Death: Unfailing Lesson for Everyone
• 60 Religion Vs Reason: Which is More Important?
• 61 Islamic Prohibition of Wasting: What, Why & How
• 62 The Culture of Islamic Greetings

14 : IN OLD AGE, ALL ROADS LEAD TO DEATH

The Quran reveals a clear picture of the life cycle that truly reflects the progress of your life from birth to death. You are born as weak and helpless and at youthful adult age you are strong, capable enough to do many things and you think your whole life is in front of you. When you go past this mid-point of your life, you become older at faster pace with every passing day, comparable to the sun that dives steeply before setting. At this stage you start showing signs of decline in your physical and mental capacity.

Your body cells start dying, your bone becomes thinner that tends to break, you lose teeth one by one this time forever, your hair starts graying or gets lost making you bald, your skin gets wrinkled, vein exposed and becomes spotty, you feel weaker so much that you cannot even open a water bottle and you are slow at work or walking, your alertness degrades so much that your hand drops things frequently, balance problem forces you to use a support cane, your pains progressively conquer your various body parts specially at joints with advent of arthritis, frequency of your sickness intensifies, your vision and hearing power get poor, glammer of your face is down so much so that is no more inviting to eyes in general, you start forgetting things as part of alzheimar's or dementia and so on. All these are generic developments as exceptions apply to particular cases. Sometimes, you also may try for protections from such natural degeneration. For example, you may have plastic surgery to heal wrinkles, use color to conceal graying, take steroid or multivitamins to regain strength, you may check up your blood to combat diabetes or cholesterol and you make no delay to have procedure if heart or other parts go wrong etc.

Sometimes, you also reshape your cultures such as calling yourself "80 years young" at 80th birthday, you do not like to hear the word "death", you prefer to say "I am not feeling well" instead of "I am sick" and the like. In spite of all these, you are on irreversible journey to death which may sometimes be delayed, thanks to healthcare services and God's approval. Anyway, you may have prolonged homebound or bedbound sufferings for even years with nature's calls responded on bed as a nightmare for the caregivers. But the death must come at a time appointed by God, regardless all your attempts to live longer. Finally He sends an incurable deadly disease like cancer, stroke or heart attack etc. to overpower your all attempts to survive and deal a final blow to your life. In order to gain salvation after such unstoppable death, you need to spend your lifetime in a way recommended by God.