human awareness of death and meaningfulness of life in nahj al-balagheh

imam ali (a) has paid special attention to human awareness of death and the necessity for remembering death. he attempts to lead man to a high degree of self-knowledge and meaningfulness of life through a comprehensive understanding of death. as is considered, death is essentially interrelated to life and, therefore, every lack of correct knowledge toward the former would affect human self-knowledge, and in such a state, one fail to have a right understanding of life, neither negatively nor positively. in this way, permanent attention to death and being inspired by the sayings and deeds of men of remembrance is the very manner upon which one can attain a considerable understanding of death and everlasting world following it in earthly life. such a right knowledge of death would lead man to understand his life as something meaningful.