If one ponders the general public's daily existence, it is consumed with thoughts and plans for the dunya, yet very little consideration is given to the everlasting aakhirah.
This was brought home at the time of a recent janaza in the family where, by the following day, the hearty laughing and eating made one wonder whether there had been any janaza at this particular home or not.
When fear consumes the heart of man, how can he enjoy eating, sleeping, this world and its temporary luxuries.
Our efforts in comparison to our pious predecessers pale into insignificance. In Fazail Sadqah, a pious man's sajdah is such that his teeth fall out and even then he appears not to be sure of the mercy of Allah and, yet here is us, missing salah after salah, wasting away prescious seconds and minutes in pursuit of the dunya that in the eyes of Allah is not even equivalent to the wing of a mosquito.
Insaan should be perturbed but remains undisturbed as what Allah has declared as gharoor has been taken to be a reality.
Have we not heard the hadith to the effect that a person will wake up as muslim in the morning and will enter the night as a kaafir or he will enter the night as a muslim and the morning as a kaafir.
Tabligh and Tasawwuf teach us to analyse that most important part of the body, i.e. the heart, for it is what enters that remains. We have filled ours with worldly pleasures and carnal desires and entertain the mercy of Allah.
Time is prescious (Allah swears by it in the Quran). Let us make use of every minute as if it were our last and remember this brother too in your duas.
