Death is a creation, it will die in the hereafter -as narrated in the Hadith- It has a duration and place, it has its secret same as the soul has the life secret.

(… أَيۡنَمَا تَكُونُواْ يُدۡرِككُّمُ ٱلۡمَوۡتُ ) (Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, …): The Talking is about the place, that is, no matter how barricaded in palaces, towers or castles, death will overtake you, and the word (overtake you) in Arabic means that death keeps chasing the soul until catches it and takes it, as if that the man has been shot with the arrow of death since his birth, so it chases him until it reaches him at the end of his life, as Imam Ali bin Abi Taleb (May Allah honour his face) said:

“Death is as an arrow sent towards you and it will reach you when your life ends.”

As if the man lives in a race between his soul and the death, verily the soul is the secret of life, when it comes out of body, you see the man who used to be full of energy and movement, suddenly all his organics, his blood which was moving, his heart which was beating, his veins, stomach, muscles… all these will stop in a second and the body turns into a corpse after hours then to clay and at last to dirt. So the soul is the secret:

 وَيَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلرُّوحِۖ قُلِ ٱلرُّوحُ مِنۡ أَمۡرِ رَبِّي وَمَآ أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ ٱلۡعِلۡمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلٗا

(And they ask you, [O Muḥammad], about the soul. Say, “The soul is of the affair [i.e., concern] of my Lord. And you [i.e., mankind] have not been given of knowledge except a little.”) (Al-Issra: 85)

Allah (swt) has never given the secret of the soul to anyone even to His Prophet (saws) but He clarifies that death chases the soul since its blown into the fetus.

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib (May Allah honour his face) said:

“Poor son of Adam, his life-end is hidden, his faults are kept, his work is written, the bug annoys him, the choke kills him, and sweat makes his smell bad, I am surprised at the one who rejoices in this world while his day destroys his month, his month destroys his year, and his year destroys his life, how can he rejoice if his life leads him to his death, and his days lead him to his destiny?”

(… وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ حَسَنَةٌ يَقُولُوا هَٰذِهِ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ ۖ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ سَيِّئَةٌ يَقُولُوا هَٰذِهِ مِنْ عِندِكَ …) (…But if good comes to them, they say, “This is from Allāh”; and if evil befalls them, they say, “This is from you.” …): This is what the hypocrites used to say to the Prophet (saws), exactly as the hypocrites nowadays do.

(… قُلْ كُلٌّ مِّنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ …) (…say, “This is from Allāh”;…): There is a question that comes to mind: Are the actions of people created? This question has baffled the scholars; are the good and the bad from humans? Or is the good from Allah (swt) and the bad from the human? Or is the good and the bad from Allah (swt)? In the next verse, Allah (swt) says:

 مَّا أَصَابَكَ مِنْ حَسَنَةٍ فَمِنَ اللَّهِ

(What comes to you of good is from Allah,)

Whereas in this verse of study Allah (swt) says: (…say, “This is from Allāh”;…), so how to reconcile between the two?

We must pay attention to an important issue related to the laws that Allah (swt) has created for the man. We will give an example (for approximation and not for analogy), for Allah (swt) belongs the loftiest similitude, the university states in its laws that the degree of success in a subject is fifty, and in another subject is seventy. Is it the law that will makes the student succeed, or is his effort? The university law sets the limit for success, but if the student does not study, he will fail, and if he studies, he will pass. Another example: Allah (swt) created for you a hand and it is able to give and to do good things and also it is capable of killing and hitting, so when you use the hand for bad deeds, you will be held accountable for it. In this case we say that (…say, “This is from Allāh”;…) because unless Allah (swt) has created for you a hand you would not be able to hit and kill with it, or even to write or do the good and build the world. So when Allah (swt) says: (…say, “This is from Allāh”;…) this is very normal since Allah (swt) has created in you this ability and gave you the freedom to choose the way you direct it.  Hence, when Allah (swt) says that the good and bad are from Him and when says that the evil is from you, both statements are true because it is you who directs the ability which Allah (swt) has created in you, so you will be hold accountable for your choices not for the power you have., taking into consideration that Allah (swt) has clarified to humans what is lawful and unlawful, what is correct and uncorrect, what is permissible and impermissible of all the behaviours, and if Allah (swt) had willed, He would have created all the humans as angels:

لَّا يَعْصُونَ اللَّهَ مَا أَمَرَهُمْ وَيَفْعَلُونَ مَا يُؤْمَرُونَ

(they do not disobey Allah in what He commands them but do what they are commanded.) (At-Tahrim: 6)