Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, even though you be in towers built up strong and high. (4:78)

The eighth Imam,  Ali the son of  Musa al-Rida, peace be upon them both, has been quoted as saying: "Indeed the most frightening times that can come for this creation (the human being) are three: The day of their birth and their coming out from the womb of their mother and they see the world; And the day they die and they observe and preview the world to come and its inhabitants; And the day they are raised up (from their graves) and they see the rulings (of that realm) which they had never seen while in life of this world…"