Assalam o alaikum,
Hoping you are in good health , In sha Allah.
In the words of an unknown writer-
"Dunya kay ay musafir, manzil tairi Qabr hai;Tay kar raha hai jo tu, do din ka yai safar hai" (Oh traveller of the world,grave is your destination
the path of life you seek is only a journey of a few days)
Every single day when you wake up with that alarm
clock on your head, the pressure of your jobs,your schools, your
colleges your everyday chores take over you.
The insatiable gluttony of earning money has taken over all of us in
such a sad way that we forget the reason why we are here.
Are we here to earn money? are we here to earn huge degrees and swear by
them all our lives? or are we here to construct huge palaces and bungalows for ourselves and bask on them lavishly forever?
Have you ever taken out a spare moment from your "busy lives" and
wondered what exactly is your objective of getting born at all?. When questions like these are borne by our minds the only book that provides us with the answers is the book bestowed upon us by
Allah subhana wa'ta'aala, The Qur'aan.
So what exactly is
the reason we're all existing and have been gathered up here in this Duniya (world)?.
The Qur'aan tells us how
this world is only an exam. This exam has very little to do with seeking pleasure
or grandeur of this world.
"The purpose of this life is to seek the pleasure of Allah, this life is a test. So that Allah can see if we will sincerely worship Him alone or not. This is where our focus has to begin."
To
give a really amusing example of how worthless and purposeless our
lives would be without a reason, I'd tell you what my father says about
the Duniya (world) and the reason why we're all here. Imagine a time when you'd be asked to give an exam,and you won't be
provided with the syllabus. You are told it will be an exam and that's all.
You'll be provided with the most expensive of pens and your exam room
would have gold tiles and a diamond flooring.
And there would be hundreds of attendants to look after you.The hall
would be purely air conditioned and you'll be given answer sheets made of the
finest paper ever existing.
BUT the only bet is that you won't be provided with the
syllabus. Also,you would be judged on the basis of your marks. Doesn't all of a sudden all that effusive and opulent provision of the
finest papers and the costliest pens just look baseless and worthless?
That's how this life is without a purpose- pointless and worthless.
And the sole purpose is to please Allah.
That's why we're all existing.
And that is exactly our "syllabus" for the test called life.
Mālik b. Dīnār said,
❝By the amount that you
worry about dunyā, the concern for ākhirah will leave your heart; and
by the amount that you worry about the Hereafter, the concern for dunyā
will leave your heart.❞
(Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, al-Zuhd: no. 67)
With
all the posh life that we have been gifted by our Lord we forget how
unimportant and gravity-less it is at all.
We're all here for a very very very very very very short period of time.
And in this very short period the only goal and purpose of our lives
should be to obey our Lord,to pray,to seek His pleasure so that He may
show mercy on us on that Day of Judgement.
A day in the history of all mankind when we'll all realise how vain our
lives really were.
We'd realise if only we would've not missed that Salaah or if only we had
obeyed Allah. If only we would've not committed that sin and asked for
repentance instead.
And when The Qur'an will be asked if we read it, we'd cry and say to
ourselves if only we would've held ourselves to the Qur'an all our lives
and not just set it in our rooms for the purpose of beautification, gathering dust. Truly it would be a very regretting moment for all of us if we still
don't wake up from this dream called "life".
'Cause there's really NOTHING in here.
..and in case we do "pass"
this test,we would have a life hereafter where there would be no pain,and
no disease will be able to wreck the cells of our body,and we would
appear so beautiful in the nicest of clothes of gold and silver and
every imaginable nobility it would be difficult to believe.
There would be lakes and rivers of strawberries and milk and fruits
unimaginable.
It is said that the smallest Jannah would be something like 10,000000
times bigger than this earth you're right now living in.
Imagine the rewards our Lord has prepared for our good deeds!
And then we'd be happy ever after.and no force would ever be able to
make us sad. Isn't that just too lovely to believe?
But that is exactly what Allah has planned for all His loyal
servants who sincerely love Him with all their hearts, obey Him alone without associating any partners, seek repentance from Him and acknowledge His countless blessings every single moment
of their lives.
Cause that's exactly what this life is for.
“Whatever man is given from this worldly life, either he ceases to live
and leaves it, or it comes to an end and leaves him." - Sheikh Saleh Bin Fozan
May Allah subhana'ta'Aala guide us all to His mercy. Insha Allah.
Subhan Allah. This post is a contribution from a very dear friend Sarah from India. May Allah bless her and her family. May Allah let us be of those fortunate people who worry about their hereafter more than their Dunya. Ameen. Because if you think of it everything in our lives will fall in to place if we just focus on the hereafter. Its like preparing for an exam. Our focus is on the results. And we give it our nothing but the best effort to get those results. This is just like that. We keep our eyes on the prize and try to be as good Muslims as we can be and always hope for good from Allah. (:
Jazak Allah
May Allah accept our Ibadah and our fasts. Ameen (:
*None of the pictures are ours. Credit goes to the original owners. May Allah bless them whoever they are. Ameen
