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What have you prepared for it?
Allah ﷻ says
كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ ۗ
Every Soul shall taste Death.
[3:185]
We shall all taste Death, none of us can escape the certain departure from this world. No matter how much we run or we delude ourselves by planning for tomorrow, or next week or 20,30,40 years ahead…
We must remember that Death will touch us.
And this is a remedy to crush our love for this Dunya and its delights. As Prophet ﷺ said “Remember often the destroyer of pleasures ( i.e death)
[Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2307]
How many people do you see flying out, departing from Dunya and landing in the Dunya?!
And how many people do we know that have departed with the Angel of Death and landed in the grave?!
So when we remind ourselves of Death, It is important to then reflect on what we have prepared to take with us, What we have packed away in our baggage to journey into the Akhirah?
The wealth of the Dunya will not suffice
Nor will anything you enjoyed from it suffice, rather only Good Deeds will suffice.
As Allah ﷻ mentions about the person of the left hand who will say
مَا اَغْنٰى عَنِّى مَالِيَه
My wealth has not availed me!
هَلَكَ عَنِّي سُلْطَانِيَهْ
My Authority has left me
[69:28-29]
So we must strive to accumulate only that which will be of benefit!
As Allah ﷻ says
وَتَزَوَّدُوا فَاِنَّ خَيرَ الزَّادِ التَّقْوٰى
So take provision; indeed the best provision is Taqwa
[2:197]
As we move through the world, the best provision for us is Taqwa, because Taqwa is what Inclines us towards Good and Bad,
And if we die upon this, then we’ll have died with Taqwa in our hearts and this along with our deeds will suffice us in Akhirah!
And no doubt that everyone is a sinner, nobody is perfect! But to have a heavy load of good deeds and a light load of bad deeds, we need to engage in Istighfaar as much as possible! Not only will it lighten our load of Bad deeds, it will add to our good deeds!
As Allah ﷻ mentions
إِلَّا مَن تَابَ وَآمَنَ وَعَمِلَ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا فَأُولَٰئِكَ يُبَدِّلُ اللَّهُ سَيِّئَاتِهِمْ حَسَنَاتٍ ۗ
Except He who repents, believes and does righteous action, then they are those whom Allah will change their sins into good deeds
[25:70]
All so we can earn Jannah! The eternal bliss, where there is no sadness!
May Allah ﷻ ease our affairs.
آمِيْن يَارَبَّ الْعَالَمِينْ
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