Most of the people of the world believe that their lives will end and be destroyed when death approaches. But the truth is something else; just like the fetus in the mother's womb reaches the end of the bell in the mother's womb after 9 months, and then begins life outside the mother's womb. It means that we also enter the afterlife with the end of life in this world and start a new life in the afterlife. Hence, the first successor of the Prophet of Islam, Imam Ali, said:
لِكُلِّ دارٍ بابٌ وَ بابُ الآخرةِ اَلمَوتُ.
Every house has an entrance door; the entrance door to the hereafter is death. (1)
In fact, the above narration conveys that, firstly, a person is not annihilated by death and life continues in the afterlife. Secondly, it considers the afterlife as a house for permanent living and survival. And thirdly, just as a door is needed to enter a house, there should also be a door to enter the afterlife; that door is death, since the afterlife has two parts, heaven and hell and our permanent home, we must be careful what luggage we send to it. if we send faith in God, the Prophet, the Ahl-ul-Bait, and righteous deeds, which is our home. It is heaven, otherwise we will go to hell with disbelief and ugly deeds and ruin our future. If we have faith in God, the Prophet, the Ahl-ul-Bait, and send righteous deeds, then our home is heaven, otherwise, we will go to hell with disbelief, ugly deeds, and sin, and we will ruin our future.
1- Sharh nahj al-balagha (by Ibn Abi l-Hadid), volume 20, p. 345.
