(the Day of Resurrection) is for accountability, and there will be no opportunity for action."^[1]

When Sayyidunā ꜤUthmān al-Ghanī رَضِىَ اللّٰهُ عَـنْهُ was asked why he wept so profusely upon seeing a grave, he replied:

I am reminded of my solitude, for there shall be no one from amongst the people with me in the grave. The one for whom this world is a prison, the grave shall be a Paradise; and the one for whom this world is a Paradise, the grave shall be a prison. Death is a message of liberation for the one whose worldly life was as a prison. He who forsakes sensual desires in this world shall receive his full portion in the Hereafter. The superior person is he who renounces the world before it leaves him, and who is pleased with his Lord before meeting Him. Every person’s experience in the grave corresponds to their worldly life; if life was spent in virtue, there will be comforts in the grave, but if one died whilst sinning, there will be nothing but destruction."^[2]

Dear Islamic brothers! The pious servants of Allah reflected deeply upon the internal conditions of the grave and remained distant from worldly transience and the pursuit of the nafs. Undoubtedly, these luminaries knew that attaching the heart to this world and following desires results in a loss for the Hereafter. But alas! Despite visiting graveyards repeatedly and lowering many deceased people into their graves with our own hands, we do not take heed that those who followed their desires and considered this world to be everything, are now in their graves reaping the fruits of their deeds.

Be it known that graves, which may appear identical from the external surface, are not uniform within. The grave of one individual may be a