{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw57.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw57.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw57.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nAll life ends in death.\nWhen I see all paths leading men unto death, and no paths leading from death unto us\u2014no traveller there ever returning\u2014not one of ages past ever remaining\u2014I see that I also shall assuredly go where they have gone.\nIf death be surely inevitable, be not a fool and die a coward's death.\nDeath is a cup which every man must drink, and the grave a door which every man must enter.\nIf we are hastening to death, why all this impatience with the ills of life?\nThis life is a sleep, the life to come is a wakening;\nthe intermediate step between them is death, and our life here is a disturbed dream.\nHe who dreads the causes of death, they will surely seize him\u2014do what he will to evade them.\nDeath, so far as one can see, strikes at random, killing the man whom he hits, and leaving the man whom he misses to old age and decrepitude.\nDeath covers all faults.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Death","type":"page"}