Translations:Yirmi Birinci Lem'a/42/en

Yes, the instruction the Sufis and people of truth received from such verses of the All-Wise Qur’an as, Every soul shall taste death.(3:185) * Truly you will die [one day], and truly they [too] will die [one day],(39:30) led them to make the contemplation of death fundamental to their spiritual journeyings; it dispelled the illusion of eternity, the source of worldly ambition. They imagined themselves to be dead and being placed in the grave. With prolonged thought the evil-commanding soul becomes saddened and affected by such imagining and gives up its far-reaching ambitions and hopes to an extent. There are numerous advantages in this contemplation. It is taught by the Hadith which says something like, “Frequently mention death which dispels pleasure and makes it bitter.”(*)