It thus makes the believer keen to achieve this goal for fearing Allah as He should rightly be feared, according to man s understanding and ability. This is a road which attracts man more and more as he walks further and further. The nearer he draws to Allah through fearing Him, the higher the goal he sets for himself. He will continuously try to achieve a greater position, so as to make his heart always alert, never asleep. Do not allow death to overtake you before you have surrendered yourselves truly to Him.
Death is beyond the reach of our knowledge.
No man can be certain when death will overtake him. Hence, if anyone wants to die a Muslim, in the full sense of the word, he must surrender himself to Allah right here and now. He must also abide by the requirements of this surrender all the time. This is the meaning which pervades the whole Surah and all its verses. Without it, no human grouping can be described as Islamic.