Two clauses. Every soul. Will taste. The first clause is universal; the second is mandatory. Then comes the third: to Us. Not to your bed, your job, your family. To Us.

The Salaf would gather at funerals not to weep for the dead but to receive the lesson for themselves. ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: I have not been to a funeral that did not change me; the corpse before me was, days ago, a man like me, and I am, days from now, a corpse like him. We have made funerals social events; the Salaf made them muḥāsabah events. The verse asks the reader to do muḥāsabah here in the page. You will taste. Imagine the moment. The last sip of air. The body releasing the soul. The room around you continuing without you. The bookend has arrived. Then comes the return. To the One you have been moving toward, knowingly or not, your whole life. Are you ready for the meeting? If the meeting were tonight, what would you regret not having done today? The Qur'an's mercy is that it tells you the meeting is real and asks you to prepare while you have the breath. Yā Allāh, when our tongues taste, make them taste the sweetness of īmān; when we return, return us in a state You are pleased with. Āmīn.