terminated the high hopes from the heart of the king. He started despising all the plans of luxury and pleasure and was overwhelmed with the thought of the Hereafter and gave up all his desires. With the intention of giving up sins, he humbly said to Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, ‘O Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ! Making You and all the people present here as witnesses, I turn towards You and feel ashamed and repent of all my sins and injustices. O my Creator عَزَّوَجَلَّ! If you want me to live for some more time in this world, then help me to follow the path of eternal obedience and if You want to call me by giving me death, then have mercy on me and forgive my sins out of Your mercy.’

Likewise, the king remained busy pleading and his pain kept increasing, then he started uttering these words, ‘By Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ! Death; by Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ! Death’, whilst saying this he passed away. The Islamic jurists of that age used to say, ‘After repenting, the king passed away.’

(Mawsu’ah Ibn Abid Dunya, vol. 3, pp. 361, Raqm 271)

           خُدایا بُرے خاتمے سے بچانا            پڑھوں کلمہ جب نکلے دم یا الٰہی

گناہوں کی عادت بڑھی جارہی ہے                  کرم یا الٰہی کرم یا الٰہی

High hope is the root of sins

Dear Islamic brothers! Have you noticed how high hopes made the king habitual of gaining and being occupied in the luxuries and pleasures of this temporary world. Having fallen prey to this hope, he became distracted from the horrors of the grave and was occupied with the construction of beautiful palaces and entertainments. Being intoxicated with the useless company of friends and the flattering services of the servants he totally forgot the loneliness of the grave, but as he lost his high hopes and got out of the darkness of heedlessness, then he was attracted to repentance, he got sick of sins and lost interest in the world.

Undoubtedly, the disaster of high hopes makes a human suffer many types of troubles in this world and the Hereafter. Giving him hope for repenting later, the Nafs and Satan trap him, thus causing a person to become bold in committing sins and sometimes these sins leads to a bad death. Remember! High hopes is the root cause of all sins and a cause of a human’s destruction.