This message is for you! | Ali Reza Panahian

This message is for you!

Friends, I want to speak simply with you. How long do we live? An average of 70 years. The most is 100 years. Don’t mess up the deal for only 30 years! How do you feel about 100 years? Everyone sees how short life is. But, from which angle should we look at the shortness of life?
A person’s entire honor is based on being able to look at life in this way and saying 100 years is very short. Suddenly you will open your eyes. A tradition says, “People are asleep. When they die they wake up.” 100 years was very short.
Especially you know what happens when we die. Gnostics have said that when we are dying the movie of our whole life passes by in our minds with all its details. Suddenly that is when you realize what you have lost. What moments you have ruined. What you have gained. Regret for what you have lost is the pain of dying. You know that dying doesn’t have a physiological pain. If the pain is more than a certain amount, the soul will separate. Unconsciousness. Complete cessation.
A tradition states the archangel Azrael came to take the life of Hazrat Noah (‘a). Hazrat Noah (‘a) was lying down in his house. He had a very small house and his feet stuck out of his house. Azrael said hello, and Noah (‘a) recognized him and responded. Azrael said, “Noah, I have come to take your life.” Noah (‘a) asked, “Do I have to get up?” Azrael said, “No, be comfortable. Just lie down.”
Azrael said, “Noah, you should have made a house for yourself that when you lie down your feet don’t stick out from it.” Noah (‘a) said, “This 1000 years of life is so short that a person shouldn’t be after these things.” Azrael said that in the future people will live who build towers for themselves. Their houses will be from reinforced concrete, with girders and cement. The buildings will be many times taller than they are. They will have many rooms and levels. He didn’t say it in this way, but he talked about their strength and greatness. Noah (‘a) asked, “How many years do they live?” He said, “An average of 70 years.” Noah (‘a) asked, “They make these things for 70 years?!”
When God takes a person from this world, he will complain and say, “You didn’t inform me beforehand.” God will say, “I informed you three times.” He asks, “When did you inform me?” “You weren’t paying attention! You were looking here and there. One time a person you knew passed away. One time that incident.” God notifies everyone three times before his/her death. How does he notify? I don’t know. You know it yourself.
Look carefully. If you look from a certain angle, you will understand that this message is for you. In another tradition, it has been said that Noah (‘a) was asked, “What is your opinion about the length of your life?” He replied, “It was a room which had two doors. I entered this door and went out from that door. I didn’t sit down at all. I passed through a room.”
[From the series of speeches under the topic of “The way of looking at things in epic art.”]