Do Not Wait for Next the Morning

Former Indian President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam died on 27th July 2015. He was 83 years old. He had gone to Shillong to deliver a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management. He was delivering his lecture and there were many people in the audience. He had spoken for barely five minutes when his tongue suddenly fell silent and he collapsed on the stage. He was rushed to a hospital, but the doctors said that he had died.

Death compulsorily comes to every human being. It is generally thought that death comes to a person in the form of sickness or an accident or in old age. But the Creator sometimes arranges for someone’s death to come all of a sudden—like in the case of Dr. Abdul Kalam.

Sudden death comes to someone so that other people can draw the lesson from it that they should not lead a life of heedlessness. It is this reality which Abdullah ibn Umar, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad, expressed in the following words: “When you are in the evening do not wait for the morning; when you are in the morning do not wait for the evening.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 6416)