Thanks be to Allah, the
Lord of the worlds. Peace and prayers be upon the
most honorable of all messengers Mohammad; and all his folks, companions, and
followers to the day they are all summoned together.
I advice you and my self
to fear Allah. This who does not fear Allah will not be able to distinguish
between different paths. Allah says: {if you fear Allah then He will provide
you with the power of distinction} Aya 29Anfal.
Allah did not create you
in vain; take provisions from this life that will protect you in the next
life. Indeed, people make arrangements for funerals, they say prayers for the
deceased, and walk behind the funeral procession, they may encounter some
sorrow, and some shade of gloom may pass over them, but soon people are
overcome with the buzz of life and the neglect due to living.
Dear brothers and
sisters, those forgetful people, the time they live will be taken as evidence
against them. Their days lead them to misery. For how is the next life can be
achieved with no good deed? And how repentance is can be expected with the
forgetfulness, carelessness and negligence and putting off hope far into the
future. The people of negligence if they are given, they are never satisfied,
and if they are not given they are not contented, they preach what they do not
practice, and they preach deterring others and nothing deters them. They are
always given out to others, and for themselves, they always find excuses and
justifications.
Yea who are unaware of
this matter, Many of those who put their trust into this worldly life were
afflicted by it, and many cheaters were cheated by it, and many vain people
were made despicable by it. And many proud people lost their pride because of
this worldly life.
The sweetness in this
life is really bitter, its powerful is beatable, life in it is short, it’s
being is going towards nothingness. Happiness in it is going towards sadness,
the abundance in it is going towards lack, and health is moving towards
sickness, richness is going towards poorness; life in it is cunning, its days
are luring, To its followers it preaches badness.
Situations in this life
are either blesses that are disappearing, afflictions that are coming down,
deaths that are going to take place. Investing and building in this life is
doomed to destruction, and collections are doomed to dispersion. And all that
is above dust is going to dust.
The people of negligence
do not achieve their hopes, and are not good in taking the right provision for
what they are going for. They collect much but they will not make use of it,
they build what they will not occupy, and hope for what they will not obtain.
Allah says: {Let them feed and amuse, and let them be fooled by the hope, they
will find out} Aya 3 – Al-7ejr
Those who keep wishing
for a long time, building and destroying, do and undo, guess and miss judge,
they think and plan, eventually matter turn out different to plans, wrongfully
their collection grows, and keep saying “I will, I will” about repentance, but
there is death has approached him, work is cut off for him, their people
commit them to earth, and they are denied all excuses. Allah says {Do you see
that I give them their pleasure for years, then comes upon them what I have
promised them. What they were give to enjoy} Ayas 205-2207 of Shu3aras
The messenger advised us
regularly remember the destroyer of pleasures. For indeed this who thinks
about death will put himself, his actions and hopes to account. It is those
with stagnant souls and unaware hearts that needs constant and elaborate
reminding. Any one remembers and think of the destroyer of pleasures, if they
are in tight living it will be made plentiful, and if they are in plentiful
living, then it will be made tighter.
The messenger (PPBU)
once walking by a grave stopped and cried till his tears wetted earth and he
said: “Brothers, it is for the likes of this get ready”
A man asked the
messenger (PPBU) saying: “Who is the best of all people?” He replied : {The
one who remembers death more, and the one who is more ready for it. Those are
the good ones who are gone with the dignity of this worldly life, and the
honor of the life after.}
Dear brothers, death is
ruining pleasures for those who seek pleasures in this life. Seek the pleasure
that has no death to ruin. People in paradise are safe from death and they
will enjoy their pleasures for ever.
Remember that those who
always think of and remember death Allah will honor them with three things:
speedy repentance, heart contentment and activeness in worship. And those who
forget and ignore death, Allah will afflict them with three things: continues
postponement of repentance, and lack of contentment with what is enough, and
sluggishness or laziness towards acts of worship. Each and every one of us
will die. All those before us have regardless of how long they lived. Allah
says: {Did you think we created you in vain, and you shall not come back to
us?} Aya 115 of Mosminoon.
Allah says: {Every soul
is getting the taste of death, for you shall be compensated in the day of
resurrection. This of you who is dislodged off the fire and brought into
paradise is the victorious. And this worldly pleasure is just an illusive and
alluring enjoyment}
Dear Muslims, fear
Allah, and keep up Allah’s commandments, be trustees for what he entrusted you
with for you shall answer to him the day you stand between his hands. Rewarded
for what you did and what you regretfully did not do.
Repent to Allah before
you die, engage into good deed before, you are stricken by a disabling lack of
resource, or an over whelming richness, or a devastating sickness, or
weakening old age, or terminating death, or the false messiah, or the hour,
and the hour is tougher and more cunning.
May Allah bless you, do
not be hoping for the good of the life after with no work in this life, and do
not postpone repentance for a lengthy hope and you know that death approaches
suddenly. Visit the graves or cemeteries; it reminds you of the next life.
Take a lesson of those who are under the dust and his friends and family have
forgotten about them. They suddenly died while they had hopes for the future,
collected money, for their hopes were dashed, and their money is useless to
them, their wives were widowed, their riches divided.
Fear Allah, may He bless
you, and hope for the next life. For it is a life where there is no death,
homes in it are not destroyed, youth never ages, its blesses never fade, where
goodness and beauty in it does not change, those who live in it live in the
mercy of the most merciful.
