How Well Are You Preparing?
“Oh snatcher of pleasure!” He has come to visit again and has picked another beloved. He struck again, but with no weapon, he filled another house with cries again as his victim's beloved cried and each tried to endure the pain.
He has come and can't return empty-handed, he has come and doesn't get entertained with nothing, but with the soul of his victim. He came without a notice and couldn't even give his victim a chance to pack.
Perhaps we live with this mentality of growing into an adult, getting married and attaining old age, whereas today isn't promised and tomorrow isn't guaranteed. We feel like we have decades, but they're only days.
What will your first night in the grave be like? Have you ever given it a thought? Could it be that you felt like you know the answers, what if you do, but couldn't say them when asked in the grave, have you ever thought of that as well?
Death! A debt we must all pay, but when? This one word question makes it more terrific than it sounds. What are the actions you wouldn't want to die upon, yet you engage in it. Are you perhaps preparing for life after death or are you too engrossed in your worldly affairs?
What have you done that will continue to speak for you if you die tomorrow? What impact have you made to the people around you that will remind them of you and make them utter nothing, but ask Allah of Jannah for you?
Death can be a blessing in the sense that someone we all know to be a believer may later become a disbeliever, but die as a believer. It can also be a blessing if he passes the grave test.
In the grave, we're expected to be visited by solah, but that is if you visit me when you have the chance to. When last did you pray without a delay? When was the last time you prayed with patience and not rushing for class? When was the last time you prayed and didn't grab your phone immediately?
Let's all take a moment to reflect on every moment, day, month, year of our life so far and ask ourselves, how regretful would I feel if I were to die this moment knowing that this is the kind of life I lived? Your response is enough to get you back on track.
How funny we claimed death to be an admonition, but within a few weeks of losing our loved ones we forget about the lesson and resume back to our old ways until it strikes again and we claim it to be an admonition and the cycle continues.
Let's strive to be better, we never can tell when it's time to go. Our Solah should always be our priority and we shouldn't be too far from our Lord, that's when death would become less scary as you would be eager to meet your lord because you've managed to live well.
Live a life where you would smile while dying, whereas others would be crying. Like they say, the day you came to this world, you were crying and others were rejoicing, live the world while rejoicing and others are crying.
A word they say is enough for the wise.
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