Book Name:Din Raat Kesay Guzarain
portion of your life decreases. Indeed, from the day you were born, your life has continuously decreased.”[1]
Sayyidunā ꜤUbaydullāh b. Sumayt رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه states that he heard his father saying:
A believer advises himself in the following manner, “This mortal and worldly life are only three days: one day has passed, the second is passing, which you should consider having passed already, and the third day is that which is to come, and it is a hollow hope which you may not reach. Even if you live till tomorrow, then it will bring the message of sustenance for you and death for countless people, and it is possible you are among those to whom the message of death will come. If you are granted further life, your weak heart will be afflicted with the grief of poverty, sickness and calamity.
When you will experience such worldly anguishes, how will your heart be attentive towards concern of the Hereafter? Remember! Every passing day results in your life being shortened, yet you have no concern. What will the one whose worldly desires never end prepare for the Hereafter? How foolish and strange is the Muslim who knows this world is temporary and the Hereafter is eternal, yet he leaves the eternal life and concerns himself with improving the temporary one!”[2]
Dear Islamic brothers! It is true that we are so engrossed in worldly concerns that we have no time to ponder about the Hereafter. All we have concern for is earning something of the world; we do not even think about earning Paradise, improving our Hereafter, and preparing