Book Name:Sadqat K Fazail
this in mind, you should try your absolute hardest to perform virtuous deeds as quickly as possible, in the brief span of time we are left with.
We should give as much charity as we can. Otherwise, once death approaches and ends our life, there will be no more time for us to perform good deeds. Once we die, we will not have the chance to return to this life, even if we wanted. In the 10th and 11th verses of Sūrah Al-Munāfiqūn, part 28, Allah has said:
وَ اَ نۡفِقُوۡا مِنۡ مَّا رَزَقۡنٰکُمۡ مِّنۡ قَبۡلِ اَنۡ یَّاۡتِیَ اَحَدَکُمُ الۡمَوۡتُ فَیَقُوۡلَ رَبِّ لَوۡ لَاۤ اَخَّرۡتَنِیۡۤ اِلٰۤی اَجَلٍ قَرِ یۡبٍ ۙ فَاَصَّدَّقَ وَ اَکُنۡ مِّنَ ا لصّٰلِحِیۡنَ (۱۰) وَ لَنۡ یُّؤَ خِّرَ اللّٰہُ نَفۡسًا اِذَا جَآءَ اَ جَلُہَا ؕ
And from what We have provided you spend some in Our path before this that death comes upon any one of you then he says, 'O my Lord! Why did you not give me respite for a little while, that I would have given charity and become of the virtuous?'. And Allah will never give respite to any soul when its promise arrives.[1]
Dear Islamic brothers! No doubt, a person’s wealth is actually that which he spends as charity. It is this very wealth that will actually aid him in the hereafter, earn him the pleasure of Allah and save him from the fire of Hell. However, the wealth that remains in his possession and he considers to be his own is actually not his, but rather belongs to his inheritors.
As narrated by sayyidunā Ḥārith b. Suwayd رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُ, the Messenger of Allah صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم once asked his Companions, اَيُّكُمۡ مَالُ وَارِثِهِ اَحَبُّ اِلَيۡهِ مِنۡ مَالِهِ - “Which of you loves the wealth of your inheritor more than your own?”