Every Soul Shall Taste Death

There is another important verse here:

Kullu nafsin dhāʾiqatu al-mawt. Everyone must eventually die. Whether one dies in a battle, or in a skirmish such as this, or in one's bed, one dies in the end. Death is the same. The difference is that if one dies a shahīd, the enjoyment one receives, the pleasure one receives… Those who see the shuhadāʾ depart feel a loss, because they feel that someone has gone; but the shahīd himself feels wonderful. And those close to him — the members of his family — who know that these men are going, if their understanding is sound, generally rejoice in the fact. That is why one finds among the Ṣaḥābiyyāt: "I am the mother of a shahīd; I am the mother of a martyr." Wa-innamā tuwaffawna ujūrakum yawma al-qiyāmah: you will be given your full reward on the Day of Judgement. That is verse 185.

The next passage is the verse — this is verse 119:^***

These are among the verses that the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to reflect upon and recite when he rose for tahajjud. When one rises for tahajjud — an opportunity not to be forgotten; may Allah grant it to us, especially in Ramadan — it is a time of great solitude. There is little disturbance. One is unlikely to be receiving text messages, unless one belongs to something like a tahajjud group — people have such tahajjud groups, mashāʾAllāh, in which they wake one another; and that is a practice that may be adopted. At that hour one's thoughts are with Allah (swt). Inna fī khalqi al-samāwāti wal-arḍ: in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of the night and the day, la-āyātin li-ulī al-albāb — there are signs here for people of intellect and understanding. Alladhīna yadhkurūna Allāha qiyāman: those who remember Allah standing, sitting and on their sides. Wa-yatafakkarūna fī khalqi al-samāwāti wal-arḍ: and who ponder and reflect upon the creation of the heavens and the earth. And then, at the last, their confession, their declaration, is: rabbanā mā khalaqta hādhā bāṭilan — our Lord, You have not created all of this in vain. Subḥānaka fa-qinā ʿadhāba al-nār: glorified be You; protect us from the Hellfire.

Why does this appear here? What has "protect us from the Hellfire" to do with reflection on the universe? The answer, possibly, is that there is a part of the universe which is very attractive to us, and which gets us into a great deal of trouble — which draws us away, and renders us liable to punishment. Perhaps that is the point: all of this exists; may it be seen in the right way, and used in the right way, and not used in a way that would entitle one to the punishment of the Fire. A number of duʿāʾs are then mentioned:

Rabbanā innaka man tudkhili al-nāra fa-qad akhzaytah, and the rest, which can, inshāʾAllāh, be read in those following verses.