When we think of the fear of death, we think of dying too young, or having an unfinished short story; For every mother, their children is to think first. However, every death is early because every age has its own excitement and because no one finishes his job and then dies.

On the other hand, the death is the "Ecel (fate)" for the believers. “Ecel”, on the other hand, is our greatest reality, which has been individually appointed for every each of us, and has not been informed to us just like “the hour of the Doom”: "And spend [in the way of Allah ] from what We have provided you before death approaches one of you and he says, "My Lord, if only You would delay me for a brief term so I would give charity and be among the righteous." But never will Allah delay a soul when its time has come. Allah is aware of what you do. ”(Al- Munafiqun/ 10-11)

Therefore, it is said that "the Ecel protects person from death."

The time of our death is clear from the very beginning, it is not possible to delay or postpone it; moreover, it is a mystery, there is no difference between the death of tomorrow and the death in later years. Instead, we have the opportunity to "repent" instead too much thinking about the past and the "pray" instead of worrying about the future. We have the opportunity to live the “moment” and put valuable things forth for the post-mortem:

"O you who have believed, fear Allah let every soul look to what it has put forth for tomorrow - and fear Allah. Indeed, Allah is well aware of what you do. ”(Al-Hashr / 18)

We have the opportunity to beautify our death:

"O you who have believed, fear Allah as He should be feared and do not die except as Muslims [in submission to Him]. (Ali-Imran/102)”(Al-i İmran / 102)

Moreover, the prophets having the characteristics of "ismet", that is, "sinlessness" and yet their great effort to welcome the death as true believers is meaningful to us: "Cause me to die a Muslim and join me with the righteous." (Yusuf/101)

How is it possible to beautify the death?

A man came to our Prophet, the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and said: “–O Rasulallah! when is the doom?. He (pbuh):

"–What did you prepare for the Doomsday?" and the man said:

"–The Love for Allah and His Messenger ..." he replied. Thereupon, our Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said:

"Then you will be with your loved one." . (Muslim, Birr, 163

Is Difficulties Punishment or Mercy?

Allah the Almighty states in the Qur'an that the believers have been tested to demonstrate who will do good work, and they are all as a warning to remind Himself because of what the person is doing in the world. In addition, in some hadiths, it is said that believers are tested in order to make them better and worthy for the positions in the hereafter. "If any misfortune, distress, grief, sadness, torment comes to a Muslim, or even a thorn is harmed him, Allah will surely make them redemption to his sins." (Bukhari, Marda, 1)

On the other hand, the sending of the misfortunes are always be in the form of “destruction”. When human being, whose duty is to provide “justice” on earth, become cruel through his “persecutions”; and when the earth groaning in pain because of his “persecutions”, Allah the Almighty intervenes and destroys those societies. In fact, when the spirituality of the heart died completely, their hearts were also literally stopped with a divine intervention by Allah The Almighty. Although The Creator used the word “punishment” while these destructions are being told to us, there is also expression that we “make them signs for you” referring the destruction of many nation. That is, some archaeological remains are left from those ruins; these destructions have a new meaning for us, not just show the revenge of The Creator. The next generations are expected to take lessons and make better themselves.

Regardless of the misfortunes we have experienced- since the revelation period is over- seeing these misfortune as “punishment” is like making divine judgments with our limited intelligence and interpretations; and this also means going beyond the limits of being “human” while there are zillions of things that are unknown. In verse: “And if Allah were to impose blame on the people for what they have earned, He would not leave upon the earth any creature. But He defers them for a specified term. And when their time comes, then indeed Allah has ever been, of His servants, Seeing." (Fatır / 45)

In other words, if he is to punish his servants directly for every mistake, there would be no living thing on earth.

And We have already sent [messengers] to nations before you, [O Muhammad]; then We seized them with poverty and hardship that perhaps they might humble themselves [to Us] Then why, when Our punishment came to them, did they not humble themselves? But their hearts became hardened, and Satan made attractive to them that which they were doing. (An'am / 42-43)

The divine will of Allah the Almighty is not to punish, but to send various warnings to invite them to have faith. We can illustrate this as follows; Think of a system that aims to reduce criminals' inclination towards crime, not punish criminals; Not to build new prisons and punish every criminal; It aims to meet the prison needs and zero out the number of people that need to go to prison.

In Hadith-i Sharif: “How nice is the situation of the believer! Every case has benefit for him and this situation is only for the believer. He is thankful when a good thing happens in his her live; that action would be good for him. Whenever a difficulty come to him or her, s/he becomes patient; which would be good for him.” (Muslim, Zuhd, 64)

He does not know for which of these reasons the troubles come. But for whatever reason they come; He should be strengthening his relationship with The Creator, trying to read these warnings.

Believers and Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy theories have two different aspects; first they are known as being an assumption and the second one is the theories that are put forwarded as "the only truth". They do not think of other possibilities. Conspiracy theories can be true like any other theories. Here are two things that a believer should pay attention to: This information should not make us forget that, in the case of coronavirus for example, if the virus claims not to be a natural mutant, but to be mutant in the laboratory environment, every things that happen to us can only be happened by the permission of Allah : “No disaster strikes except by permission of Allah . And whoever believes in Allah - He will guide his heart. And Allah is Knowing of all things." (At-Taghabun/ 11)

The thinking that giant powers, super-power countries, evil-oriented people, or any race can harm us should not make us forget that the real power is Allah The Almighty and he is the one who let the harm reach us.

The other thing is that these theories should not make us believe that we are passive in this world, like a helpless being swept in the middle of the giant forces in the universe. There are also possibilities for conspiracy theories to be true. But let's not forget that "Not a leaf falls but that He knows it." (An'am/59) and that Allah is the Fail’i Mutlak (The absolute Creator for everything) and Esbabu’l Musebbib (The Creator of all causes), and also forgetting these things may harm our faith. And these approaches towards these misfortunes prevent us from thinking " what messages that Allah give through these misfortunes?" ..

Then; our attention, energy, perception should be focus on how we are spending our precious and limited time and the actions that make us closer to being "a representative of Allah on the earth"; not to things that we cannot change, or the things what we are not responsible for, or any useless pastimes activities.

How can we welcome the difficulties and challenges that are sent by Allah in a best way? We can go to the nearest mirror, look ourselves and ask this question.

Like many people we are at homes, because of the Virus we are in a sort of isolation. "What can I do for humanity?" may be another question in this self-isolation days. We can search for answers that fit in with our own rhythm of life

In this way, our mind and heart are protected from the unnecessary flow of information that is going around these days more than ever, pushing us to anxiety, and the worst of all; into despair. Let's not forget that we need to get one of the masks we wear while going out to protect our inner world too.

I wish healing for the sick, mercy and grace for the dead, health and welfare for the rest.

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Have you heard the Unity of Opposite?

Now think about a piece of rope. Suppose that you are holding this string tightly with both hands. If one end of the rope means "laughing", let the opposite end is the crying; If one end presents "eating too much", the other end will be the not eating at all; If one end is all about sleeping a lot, the opposite end is excessive sleeplessness. The middle of this rope should also represent the moderation, the Middle way, the balance. Now let's tie the two ends of this rope, it will make a circle. This circle represents the cycle in life. The opposites are not opposite of each other as we think but they are one and all and in the same place.

When we laugh a lot, we also start crying; Eating too much brings us "a constant feeling of hunger", the feeling of being satisfied dies. When a car goes fast its whees seem to spin backwards. At the end of extreme pleasure, there is pain that comes from the ending of this pleasure.

The unity of opposites.

The Islamic worldview does not ignore the basic instincts in human. It tries to make them meet in the "middle". For this, it prohibits clergy that ignores the human instinct of sexuality.

Since human instincts and desires have no end it does not let them fulfillied completely.

Both ends of that rope are called "ifrat" (overdoing) and "tefrit" (deprivation). "Pleasure is the yeast of pleasure” which means trying to fulfill a pleasure cause another pleasure. For this reason, if the person does not control them in a reasonable limit, he will be the captive of his impulses that once enjoyed him.

This moderation, apart from that it is the building block that form how the Islamic approach to human beings, it has found its place as a philosophical approach in all areas from physics, psychology and to city planning. For example, the chaos created by the absence of traffic rules in the city is the same as the chaos created by having traffic stops in every corner. Therefore, the concept of "limited freedom" in urban planning is seen as the ideal one. The fact that we have to stand or stop in the red light is a part of this limited freedom. The absence of red light makes us say that "the worst rule is better than without having any rules at all." It presents anarchy and uninhabitable reality.

In Islamic view, "red lights" are the "harams" that are controlling pleasures within a reasonable limit. It does not allow neither the clergy nor the daily relationships-which define the other part of the rope. The most intimate sharing of couples are conditioned to "being able to take responsibility for being a family". In this context, "unlimited freedom", which is so popular in these years and always used in relation to sexual orientation but it -not mentioning its being desecrate- corresponds to being "a slave of lust". This is a slavery empire that is wide enough to encourage small children to dance in their "drag queen" costumes with their immodest figures in nightclubs.

The ideology, which refuses to being a family, tries to see and force people to see the daily affairs as "freedom", or while saying the early age marriage is a crime and should be punished, it defines the situation of a transgendered the 10-year-old child as "the gender revolution"; it enslaves children by sexually abusing them, controlling their mental development and taking away their childhood and calling it "freedom". (See: Cover of National Geographic Magazine, January 2017)

Today's psychology science authorities, which once regarded this sexual perversion as "disorder" according to the DSM-1 criteria, but now define it as "normal" after many pressures in DSM-5, and they are gone crazy enough to accept that a 10-year-old children- you cannot even send them alone to the market- may consider to change his or her gender.

And let me tell you another thing, from the last update, the old version of "L, G, B, T, I," has recently got another letter "Q" that represents the concept of "the queer & genderless" and which means: "there is No need for categorization as the women, the men, the incest, and people must forget about all of the reasonable limits, and go after their hormones as they wish", and this set of mind sees "the dignity of being human" as an "inessential detail."

Another principle of Islam related to pleasures is that it is always accompanied by a "benefit". For example, eating is not only a pleasure but also our basic drive that keeps our body alive. Allah, the Exalted and the Almighty, restricted this in the Quran. but it is free to do at the same time. So, the pleasure we get from eating shouldn't be in a way that harms our body. There must be a benefit for our body. Cigarettes and drugs are the best examples to explain this. The month of Ramadan, which we are in, prevents the believers from being a slave of eating and the food itself, by making the eating free for in 11 months and restricting it for in 1 month.

On the other hand, the dealing with sexual urges is just for the becoming "families" with each other and and it is to continue their generation. In Isra 32, for this reason "adultery" is known to be "a bad way” because there is a sexual relationship but there is no place for being a family. On the other hand, any kind of operation, preventive treatment by which reproduction becomes impossible in female or male organs, and any kind of sexual intercourse that prevents reproduction; they are all forbidden/ haram.

Homosexuality -if we ignore the current wave that created by some people whose profession is all about the biological education but who acts like an authority of or an expert at theology, making statement about this issue and fancying themselves as competent in every field- is forbidden with clear statements in the Qur'an. In addition to explaining it in the story of Lut and his people in the 80 verses long, it is completely against to the approach of the Qur'an which deals with the human impulses.

Therefore, eating without having any limit is to be the slave of the stomach, unlimited sexuality is to be the slave of lust. All the principles of Islam serve to keep the human beings in moderation. Limitlessness is an anarchism that destroys all the sacred. You cannot live in a city without any limits or boundaries, it causes caos. The red lights of the Creator not only keep us alive; but also it brings us to the level of living with dignity of being human When you take away all the dignity, honor, and pride of human, the only thing remains; " social animal".

Desert winds in the desert constantly change the location of the hillocks. So, you cannot find your way by looking at the hills. In this case Your compass will be sky elements such as the moon and stars.

Modern life may be fighting all our value judgments. Anything that is tried to be replaced by so-called "value" can be a sacrilege project. And maybe the dignified ways of living that Islam is trying to form are tried to be made invisible with these modern storms. Our eyes are just looking at the heaven and the words from the heaven. Our route and compass are also clear. Our light is not from hormones that are also in the animal body; but from the Creator of hormones and light itself. The "the straight path" in Fatiha, the pray which we read 40 times a day, protects us from going blindly to death due to a foundationless freedom in this desert. "Moderation" borders and limits take us away from this desert, moreover, it ensures that our lives will be with honor and dignity which is fit our purpose of creation. Hence "the death is inevitable”, the "death of the heart" in a living body -which is caused by being slave of the pleasure and desire- will be avoided too. When a person becomes a slave to his pleasures, his heart also dies eventually. 

What we can't give up is what we worship.

This can also be an individual or money and it can be also a phenomenon like "science" in which all creatures have flaws so we cannot see its flaws either.

I get upset when I hear unreasonable expressions like “the science saves the world”.

What will enable these people, who have stuck at their homes and have not been out for months, to motivate and adapt to this brand-new life; the strong psychology.

What will give the meaning of life, death, illness, fate and sorrow; the religion.

No matter what kind of life one lives, no matter how hard he or she runs; Everybody will one day question the meaning of his/her existence in this life. We are not created like a virus, we have intelligence. We are not created so that we can chase fish like a seagull or to swim in the water like a fish itself. One divine part of us is looking for answers that get all the away to the divine which is all about the beyond of this ephemeral world.

Nothing can save the person who struggle and try to find this answer, except believing.

The believer, thus, has a key for another dimensions. His biggest fear is not anymore, the death itself; it is already replaced by "fear of dying without faith". Because the fact that I am a believer now does not guarantee that I will die with faith.

Death is not described in the Qur'an as romantic as we thought. As we think, when we die, our biggest problem will not be the ones we love and leave.

Our unfinished story will not be about our new home that we won’t live in anymore.

In Surah of Ma'arij, it is told that children who are not taught of Islam will be collaring anyone and presenting them to be punished in hell instead of themselves: "They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children and his wife and his brother and his nearest kindred who shelter him and whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.” (Al-Ma’arij/11-14) Do we really need to wait for some conspiracy theorists in order to pay attention to this, right?

It is told that the oppressed individuals with weak character will have horrible arguments with the arrogant characters who keep them from believing. (Saba/ 31-32-33) Satan, on the other hand, says to those who blame him; "I am disassociated from you, I fear Allah, Lord of the worlds." (Hashr / 16). As we know: “... Except, among them, your chosen servants; I can't approach them ...” (Hijr/40) he said. So, if you were servants who were in a straight path of Allah, I wouldn't have approached you anyway.” ... I had no authority over you...” (Ibrahim/22); he will do his last devilish thing.

Therefore, for a believer there are two bad ends; first one is to die without faith and the other one is to have his record in his left hand. Verses say that people whose records are full of bad deeds more than good deeds will be given from the left, and this is means a " real ruination." (Inshiqaq/ 7-11)

Look what the verse says; " The Fire will sear their faces, and they therein will have taut smiles." (Al- Mu’minun/104). People who get their face skin burnt with hellfire will look like as if they are smiling because their teeth will be in the middle of their face all alone. In our Turkish culture, those who cook sheep's head and foot soup had realized that after the cooking animal face it looks like "smiling “and then we started to use a new expression “grin like a cooked head”. No ending can be as miserable as this one. Subhanallah (Praise be to God), if we talk a little bit about the death itself, those who will say “oh don’t scare us man" have already started to come up with some” conspiracy theories.

The servants- who keep doing righteous deeds and then will enter paradise- are busy working for their best in the world and doing righteous deeds, and if these scenarios don’t any good effect on their daily life and their decisions, they will consider them as “useless” and ignore.

The One saves us if The One wishes with science or technology; He destroys us; if he wants, again with science or technology.

So, in any case, the faith, the believing is not like that. We have to learn to believe and have a faith in Allah. Let us say that non-Muslims do not accept the issue; But what kind of disaster is this for believers if they do not to read the warning signs even though they have already seen what is happening in these days? So, let's start by asking the right questions: What does it mean for Yusuf (pbuh) to pray in the Qur'an even if he was already a prophet but he prayed to die as "Muslim."

Why there are so many examples of the hereafter-judgements in the Qur'an?

Have we taken fright these the hereafter scenarios as much as the world made-up-scenarios?

What is the worst end for us and our generation? What does the order “fear God as He should be feared” mean exactly?

How many of the things we are afraid that are right and proper for a Mu'min / true believer? And do they show us the right path?