The World is a Prison for the Believer and Paradise for the Disbeliever
Meaning, after having iman in Allah Ta‘ala and His Messenger, one has pledged to act on the commands of Allah Ta‘ala and the ways of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Therefore, just as a prisoner in a jail cannot do as he pleases, in the same way a believing servant also has no authority to do as he pleases in the world.
And on the other hand, because the disbelievers have not put the collar of slavery to Allah Ta‘ala and His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam around their necks, they have the authority of every kind of wish in this world. They may do whatever they want, but in the hereafter they will be punished forever for not having iman in Allah Ta‘ala and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam and for not presenting themselves in servitude.
And the believing servant, because in the world he merges his own desire and will into the will of Allah Ta‘ala, therefore in the hereafter every wish of his will be honored and he will be treated as a guest.
I am that death that puts separation between daughters and mothers. I am that death that puts separation between brothers and sisters. I am that death that puts separation between every friend. I am that death that puts separation between husband and wife. I am that death that ruins homes and palaces. I am that death that populates graveyards. I am that death that searches for you and pulls you out even from strong forts, and no creation can remain without tasting me.
Allah Ta‘ala says in the Quran: كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآئِقَةُ ٱلْمَوْتِ Every soul will taste death, and on the Day of Qiyamah you will be given your full rewards. So whoever is saved from sin and did good deeds, for him is jannah. Indeed that person has succeeded. The life of the world is only a house of deception.
Now taste is of 2 types: either it is sweet or it is bitter.
The person who lived a good life, when he drinks the cup of death, he will feel a sweet taste. And the person who lived a life of heedlessness, for him that cup will be so bitter that drinking it will be difficult, yet inevitably he will have to drink it.
It is written in a book that after death a person is divided into 5 parts.
1. One is the soul, which the angel of death takes away. 2. Second is the person’s body, which insects and worms eat. 3. The person’s wealth, which his heirs take. 4. The person’s bones, which the earth consumes. 5. The person’s good deeds, which his rightful creditors and those he owes take away.
Therefore why do we waste our good deeds through gheebah and other such talks? It has come in a hadith that just as fire consumes wood, in the same way envy consumes good deeds.
Similarly, when a person backbites someone, the sins of the one being backbitten are being shed, and those sins are falling on the head of the one who is backbiting. In reality we are not backbiting an opponent, rather we are giving our good deeds to our opponent.
This will be the case with the person, but do we know in whose account his wife, children, and belongings go? Do they come to any use for him or not?
Once Hazrat Ali rz went to a graveyard and said in a loud voice, O people who have become mixed with dust, your wealth has been distributed, your homes have been occupied, your wives have remarried, and your children are turning away day by day. This was Hazrat Ali rz’s address to the dead.
It is in Bukhari Shareef that once he also said to the living: The world is turning away day by day and the hereafter is coming closer day by day. And both the world and the hereafter each have future children. Do not become children of the world, rather become children of the hereafter. Today is the day to act but there will be no reckoning, and tomorrow will be the day of reckoning but there will be no respite to act.
The World is a Prison for the Believer and Paradise for the Disbeliever
Meaning, after having iman in Allah Ta‘ala and His Messenger, one has pledged to act on the commands of Allah Ta‘ala and the ways of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Therefore, just as a prisoner in a jail cannot do as he pleases, in the same way a believing servant also has no authority to do as he pleases in the world.
And on the other hand, because the disbelievers have not put the collar of slavery to Allah Ta‘ala and His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam around their necks, they have the authority of every kind of wish in this world. They may do whatever they want, but in the hereafter they will be punished forever for not having iman in Allah Ta‘ala and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam and for not presenting themselves in servitude.
And the believing servant, because in the world he merges his own desire and will into the will of Allah Ta‘ala, therefore in the hereafter every wish of his will be honored and he will be treated as a guest.
I am that death that puts separation between daughters and mothers.
I am that death that puts separation between brothers and sisters.
I am that death that puts separation between every friend.
I am that death that puts separation between husband and wife.
I am that death that ruins homes and palaces.
I am that death that populates graveyards.
I am that death that searches for you and pulls you out even from strong forts, and no creation can remain without tasting me.
Allah Ta‘ala says in the Quran:
كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآئِقَةُ ٱلْمَوْتِ
Every soul will taste death, and on the Day of Qiyamah you will be given your full rewards. So whoever is saved from sin and did good deeds, for him is jannah. Indeed that person has succeeded. The life of the world is only a house of deception.
Now taste is of 2 types: either it is sweet or it is bitter.
The person who lived a good life, when he drinks the cup of death, he will feel a sweet taste.
And the person who lived a life of heedlessness, for him that cup will be so bitter that drinking it will be difficult, yet inevitably he will have to drink it.
It is written in a book that after death a person is divided into 5 parts.
1. One is the soul, which the angel of death takes away.
2. Second is the person’s body, which insects and worms eat.
3. The person’s wealth, which his heirs take.
4. The person’s bones, which the earth consumes.
5. The person’s good deeds, which his rightful creditors and those he owes take away.
Therefore why do we waste our good deeds through gheebah and other such talks? It has come in a hadith that just as fire consumes wood, in the same way envy consumes good deeds.
Similarly, when a person backbites someone, the sins of the one being backbitten are being shed, and those sins are falling on the head of the one who is backbiting. In reality we are not backbiting an opponent, rather we are giving our good deeds to our opponent.
This will be the case with the person, but do we know in whose account his wife, children, and belongings go? Do they come to any use for him or not?
Once Hazrat Ali rz went to a graveyard and said in a loud voice, O people who have become mixed with dust, your wealth has been distributed, your homes have been occupied, your wives have remarried, and your children are turning away day by day. This was Hazrat Ali rz’s address to the dead.
It is in Bukhari Shareef that once he also said to the living: The world is turning away day by day and the hereafter is coming closer day by day. And both the world and the hereafter each have future children. Do not become children of the world, rather become children of the hereafter. Today is the day to act but there will be no reckoning, and tomorrow will be the day of reckoning but there will be no respite to act.
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