Translation: Every soul shall have a taste of death: 3490 In the
end to Us shall you be brought back.
Commentary:
3490 Cf. 3:185. n. 491, and 21:35 and n. 2697. Death is the separation of the
soul from the body when the latter perishes. We should not be afraid of death,
for it only brings us back to Allah. The various kinds of hijrah or exile, physical
and spiritual, mentioned in the last note, are also modes of death in a sense: what
is there to fear in them?
3490 Cf. 3:185. n. 491, and 21:35 and n. 2697. Death is the separation of the soul from the body when the latter perishes. We should not be afraid of death, for it only brings us back to Allah. The various kinds of hijrah or exile, physical and spiritual, mentioned in the last note, are also modes of death in a sense: what is there to fear in them?