Assalamu alaykum.
Questions:
1. Can you relate to how Richard feels?
2. How would you feel if you were told you had only 6 months left to live?
3. What do you think about the dedication of the book? It is not dedicated to Lovers of Truth, but to Haters of Truth.
4. What do you think of the quote by Immanuel Kant:
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds
then to the understanding, and ends with reason.
There is nothing higher than reason.
5. If you were an atheist like Richard would you have been interested in finding out what would happen to you after you died?
6. What would your reaction have been if you had seen that flyer about a 10 day retreat that would provide you with a scientific explanation regarding the mystery of death?
Please post your comments. Jazakallah khair.
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Ans1: No, I don't think I have ever felt the way Richard felt,as being Muslims we believe that death is nothing terrible,its just a transition phase whose comfortability or trouble depends on our deeds.Its a phase that we have to go through to meet our Lord.To get our results.Death is a reality that we inherited,but yes I can relate to how recklessly we believe in its manifest when it comes to us.The crucial reality taken as something abstract thought that we all have either watched or heard happening yet the insensible lightness that surrounds us,the arrogance of not accepting it that one day it'll occur to me too-is what I have and probably will keep feeling until the time's really near.After all death is like a friend,who's sitting just beside us,accompanies us everywhere we go till we're alive,but one day it'll touch us.And we'll die.
But it also depends if whether we are living or we are just someone among millions of living-dead.No one is perfect but to me a person without any sense of accountability is already dead.They haven't used their life.
Ans2: I'd feel relaxed but hasty and sad too.There'd be so much to do.Pending to-do lists.Good works.Quitting everything bad once and for all.If only I could get myself live everyday of my life that way--I'd be among the living.

And I'm not depressed.

See,if you get to know that you're gonna die in specified time than you already start behaving well.Its easier to maintain all your vows and resolution for a given period of time than having an unknown time limit and falling short or out of plans.As correcting one's self and getting back to a right path again and again is VERY difficult.
Ans3: Hmmm...the lovers of truth have already accepted the truth.It is rightfully addressing the haters so as they're the ones who'd get more benefit out of it and need to give it a thought
Ans4: What Immanuel Kant said is So true and I like it but would like to add one thing sometimes people mess up(it could be the fault of anything:tricked senses,limited or faulty knowledge application,wrong interpretation which by the end of the day results in confusions and wrong conclusions)and those are the times when they miss the truth.But removing all those errors,unless we sense anything we don't believe in its reality.Then sometimes sense do trick us for that we need our thought process;knowledge and experience;understanding allows us to either accept or negate the input of our senses.After that it yields us reasons.Justified.And then there's the Pure Heart Theory;if your heart's open to truth then it'll find it.
Ans5:I can't possibly even imagine that.Life would be SO confusing.It wouldn't make sense at all.May be I'd get lured by the material or may be Allah SWT would help me get to the right path-I dunno.But I dun think I would be interested.Cuz my sense then,would sense nothing but material,my knowledge would seek nothing but worldly benefits and wouldn't go beyond that and my reasons would be lame. I would want to have lived this one life fully and completely.I find it LITERALLY amazing when people convert to religions.Its really difficult.
Ans6:If I were to die like Richard was,then would definitely go attend it.