cannot become deserving of the intercession of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم and the pleasure of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ by using them for the wrong purpose.

Remember! Our wealth may be useful to make every difficult work easy in the world, but will the same wealth help us if we are tormented in the grave due to our bad deeds? If we do not answer to the questions of Munkar Nakir, so will we get benefit from our wealth that time? If snakes and scorpions attack us in the grave, so will our wealth bring us salvation from them? Will our wealth bring comfort and peace for us in the terrors of the Judgement Day? Will our wealth be useful in helping us to get rid of the Hell? Of course not, not at all, but rather the virtuous deeds for which we are heedless today, will become the source of salvation from the difficult situations.

How should I be happy?

Sayyiduna ‘Aun Bin Abdullah رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has said: Alas! How heedless am I though there will be no negligence at all in my accountability? How can my life be pleasant though a very tough day is ahead of me? Why don’t I become active in performing deeds though I do not know when I will die? How should I be happy in the world though I do not have to live here forever? Why should I prefer it though before me the world harmed the one who preferred it? Why should I like it though it will perish? Why should I be greedy for it as my abode is somewhere else? Why should I feel sad for it (loss of this world) because by Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ! I do not know how I will be treated due to my sins.

(Hilyat-ul-Auliya, vol. 4, pp. 285, Raqm 5593)

Ways of avoiding heedlessness

Dear Islamic sisters! Have you noticed! Our pious predecessors would always keep themselves busy pondering over the Hereafter to protect themselves from heedlessness and greed. Following in their footsteps we should also start preparing for the grave and the Judgment Day in our life. In order to get rid of the disease like heedlessness we should get it cured because a treatment method is adopted in order to stay safe from every disease and one can recover from the disease by treating it. Let’s listen to a few methods