Sleeping temporarily suspends ordinary waking activity while life continues; death is a different and far more profound condition. The metaphor does not treat their full realities as equivalent.
A specific common feature is sufficient for figurative comparison: the apparent interruption of usual activity provides the conceptual link. “Marqad” evokes repose, while the act of being raised makes the contrast rhetorically sharp.
The effects of either state may be perceptible, such as bodily stillness. Yet the meanings classified in this discussion remain conceptual states rather than sensory objects in themselves.