Lesson one hundred two :Worse than death

Imam Hassan Askari( A. S. )says:

خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْحَياتِ ما إذا فَقَدْتَهُ أَبْغَضْتَ الْحَياتَ! وَ شَرٌّ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ مَا إِذا نَزَلَ بِكَ أَحْبَبْتَ الْمَوْتَ!

Translation

Better than life is what, you would hate life when you lose it! And worse than death is what, you would welcome death when it happens to you!.

Brief description

Some people suppose that the highest worth is the worth of this material life while there are a lot of things more valuable than it. There are some moments in life in which man wishes for death, and there are truths for which he sacrifices himself in full satisfaction.

The martyrs for the path of God, virtue, and devotion to justice were those who had understood this meaningful speech of Imam Askari( A. S. ), and when they found life unpleasant and death a window to a wider world, as well as God's satisfaction, they bade life farewell and received death.