Death

A homely yet effective help toward contempt of death is to run over those who have clung tenaciously to life.

how many philosophers, after endless disputations about death or immortality;

that within a very little while both you and he will be dead, and soon after not even your name will be left.

O son of Ādam, were nothing decreed against you but death and its severity, you would be bound not to sleep by night nor to settle by day — how then with what comes after it, which is harsher still?

Every man runs on out of his lifetime toward a term at which the span of his appointed hour ends and upon which the scroll of his deeds is folded up;

and so it is with calamities For life is but a span that will run out — and wealth but a perishing thing and the child of a perishing thing

Men are but one departing and one who stays — and he who has gone is an admonition to him who stays And among men is one who lives upright — wakeful by night, working in vigilance And if he is a man of shame and religion — he is wary of death and abashed before the recording angels

rather death is the extinction of the innate heat (*al-ḥarārah al-gharīzīyah*), which is an accident accruing to the body when the temperament (*mizāj*) it has attained is balanced.

And since the soul is what fights the severity of the disease, illness does not hold true of it, and for that reason death is precluded in its regard.

On the fact that the soul does not die at the death of the body

All these were equally mortal, even though death let the life of some proceed further, cut off that of others in the midst of their bloom, and broke off the very beginnings of others.

but the death of all is equal.

What is death?