Not too long ago, a boy shot himself after receiving a severe thrashing from his father over some issues. A man hanged himself because he could not provide food to his large family. A girl poisoned herself with sleeping pills, leaving behind a note that life had become a burden for her and she would soon be relieved of it.
THE ILLUSION:
Novelists, dramatists, film-makers have made so little of the pain of suicide as well as of the suffering beyond it, that it is viewed as the end to all the worries and agonies of life. A sense of worthlessness after failure to achieve a much cherished goal, desire to escape the harshness of life and injustices meted out by others, exhaustion by sweat and toil for means of feeding starving children, extreme anger over any issues and tormenting lack of peace are among the driving factors for committing it. In the heat of the moment, the person decides, "Anything is better than this ordeal. I'll be peaceful. Once I am out of this wretched life." As if behind that curtain there is a life of eternal bliss.
BEHIND THE CURTAIN-THE REALITY:
Relates Abu Hurairah (Radhiallahu anhu): "The Prophet(Sallalahu Alaihi Wasallam) of Allah said, 'The person who ended his life will be given the same punishment in the Hereafter that he will keep on killing himself, and in hell he will keep on killing himself in the manner in which he killed himself in the world. And the person who threw himself from a mountain will keep on being thrown from a mountain, and the one who took poison will be keep on being made to take poison and the person who killed himself with a knife will keep on being killed with a knife."
One gunshot piercing through the temple and brain opens the door to a lifetime of similar gunshots and then he who was too overwhelmed by temporary worldly difficulties would be unable to retrace his steps to save himself from this repeated, unimaginably painful punishment.
As for the bereaved relatives, life gradually resumes its normal course. The only real loss is for the person who put an end to his life.
IGNORANCE OF DEEN AND DISOBEDIENCE TO ALLAH:
It is a direct consequence of ignorance of Deen and disobedience to Allah that people commit suicide. However hard life becomes, it is infinitely better than the trouble of the next. When a person learns the aftermath of suicide and believes it. He feels no person, no aim, no disaster is worth killing oneself to incur this mammoth disaster.
DEEN- THE SOLUTION:
1. Nothing is a loss except what Allah and His Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) declare to be a loss. Therefore we must not make an obsession out of any thing so that attaining or losing becomes a matter of life and death. We must strive for what is actually significant: the success in the Hereafter.
2. Deen tells us that anger is "Haraam", teaches how to control it, and attaches great values to do so.
3. Islam teaches patience and steadfastness in the face of hardship and Allah has promised a great reward for those who do "sabr".
4. Islam gives mother and son, husband and wife, brother and sister, etc. their respectable place and warns against injustice to anyone. Only in following Islam, domestic fights can be avoided.
5. We must stay away from television, songs, un-Islamic literature and not observing purdah for these things are misleading and forbidden. So many people have killed themselves for just another mortal, under the spell cast over them by these cursed instruments of vice. On the day when the mother shall run away from the child, no one will come in handy so this must never be done for anyone.
6. This life is a trust given us by Allah so that we may fulfill our original covenant (whereby we pledged to worship Him alone). This life is the cultivating ground for the future life which is eternal and from which we shall never return to change a single day's actions. However, much we may repent or implore.
7. Poverty, ill health, physical shortcomings, adversity are situations into which we have been placed for our test. What is to be seen is how well we adapt to Allah's will under respective circumstances.
"He who created Death and Life that you may try which of you is best in deed: and He is the Exalted in Might, oft-Forgiving."
8. Peace of mind and peace in this life can be obtained through no other means than by obedience to the Almighty. Those whose hearts are in submission to Allah Almighty and their actions made keeping His pleasure in mind never feel this world to be shrinking for them; however, their conditions may seem outwardly. That point is never reached when one contemplates suicide. Again, obedience is not possible without knowledge i.e. of Deen which is the duty of every Muslim man and woman to attain.
9. It is stated in the Holy Qura'an: "Have you seen him who denies the Recompense? That is he who repulses the orphan (harshly). And urges not on feeding of the needy." (Surah Al-Ma’oon 107:01-03). It is our responsibility to look out for the poor. Why should people be starving (and hence ending their lives) in a society of followers of this Deen if we were doing our duty?
10. Life is precious: Allah is the only One for Whom it is worth giving up one's life, that is the best end for it. As it leads straight to paradise which is the aim of all Muslims.
Request:
It is sad that so many lives have gone this way, but you are requested to do your duty by spreading awareness among others about this terrible sin. None of those committing suicide ever came back to change their actions to warn others. But Insha Allah through our words more tragedies of this sort can be averted.
