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to the dead on whose footsteps they are raised. What it really means is that whatever 1s the basis of salvation, it can-not be had without the life which i~ granted to a man through the Holy Spirit. The verse of the Rely Quran quoted above, pointedly draws our attention to the fact that the spiritual life cannot be had without giving full obedience to the Holy Prophet, sallallaho alaihi wa sallam. All those who are re- bellious and do not obey the Holy Prophet because of some enmity that they have against him, are under tne shadow of the Satan; they do not have anything of the spirit of the pious life. They are apparently alive but in reaiity they are dead. The Satan rides over their hearts. It is a pity, such people do not remember that they have to pass away from this world, one day. And how far is death from them? He who is fifty years may live a few years more-two to four, or at the most ten years. After all, he has to pass away from this world. Death is sure like anything and there is no escape from it for anybody whosoever he might be. I could see that people keep themselves engrossed in the material affairs-counting of money-but they never make any calculations about their life. Unfortunate is the person who never thinks of his life (that its span is short). The most important thing for which an account should be kept is nothing but life. It should never be that at the time of death (which he might deel'l} sudden) he should be full of regrets. The Holy Quran tells us that just as the heavenly life starts from this very world, so also is the. case with the life of the Hell. When a man dies with regrets, it is, as if, he has been thrown into the Hell. (Malfoozat Vol. II, p. 183) 89