بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends
I pray that you are well.
When we have a lot of wealth and pleasures of this world and remember death it makes the wealth and pleasures insignificant. When death is remembered everything in this life is slight. If one is slight in works and remember death it has the effect of increasing one's good deeds. It makes us realize that the next life is better than this life. What is the value of this finite world with respect to eternity?
Make plenty of remembrance in the Destroyer of pleasures. Don't immerse ourselves in the world and forget the Taker of Life, Al-Mumit. Remember, you have to unload everything you have of this world when that moment comes--you can't take them with you.
The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: "Be in the world as though you were a stranger or a wayfarer." (Bukhari)
Son of 'Umar, Allah be pleased with them both, used to say: "At the evening, do not expect to live till morning and at morning do expect to live till evening. Take from your health for your illness and from your life for your death." (Bukhari)
"How many cities We have destroyed which lived in insolent ingratitude! There are their houses, never again inhabited after them, except a little. It was We who were their Heir." Qur'an al-Qasas 28:58
May Allah bless your day. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
Wassalaam
