رَبِّ ابْنِ لِى عِندَكَ بَيْتاً فِى الْجَنَّةِ
'My Lord! Build for me a home with You in Jannaah'
(At-Tahreem 66:11)


Sunday, April 20, 2014

The only sufficient provision to the Hereafter is Taqwa


Man needs sufficient provision on his journey

Man needs sufficient provisions on his journey through life, but the only sufficient provision to the Hereafter is Taqwa (piety, fear of Allaah). Therefore, one should strive hard to be patient while observing Taqwa. Otherwise, he will cry, when it is time to leave, ‘My Lord, send me back’, but it will be said to him, ‘No’. The heedless should therefore wake up from his lazy trek through the stages of life. This especially should be the case, since as he travels, Allaah shows him His signs, Allaah brings fear to His slaves by these signs, to keep them from deviating from the Straight Path & correct religion. He whose means of journeying deviate him from the Straight Path, even though he witnesses the Signs of Allaah that make him afraid, should rush to return to Allaah by abandoning what made him deviate from the Path, all the while feeling remorse of his errors

 [‘Iddatus-Sabirun, by Imam Ibnul-Qayyim (rahimahullaah), Page 330]