The next life is eternal, yet how hard do we actually strive to achieve the best of the hereafter? Nowhere near our target, we must all agree.

Its consequences should strike fear into our hearts. We are MUSLIMS - people who submit themselves to Allah (SWT), people who believe there is none worthy of worship but Allah (SWT), people who believe that Islam is the only perfect and beneficial lifestyle. But no, we prefer to continuously indulge in the glitters of this life...we continue to ignore striving for the cause of Allah (SWT)...we continue to ignore the deafening cries of the ummah...we avoid the examples of our role model - RasoolAllah (SAW)...we continue to live this life as though we shall remain here forever, whilst being well aware that this life is temporary. Knowing, that this life is short, knowing that death can corner us any moment. in a few years time, a few months, days, hours, minutes or seconds? We have no guarantee to how many more breaths Allah the Almighty has promised us. Glory be to Allah!

There is a hadith in which the Rasool (SAW) throws three stones, one ahead of the other. He then said to his companions, "The stone closest to you us is the present time, the stone further than that represents the grave, and the furthest one of all are our desires. Death approaches us before time lets us reach our wordly desires."

So, who are we then trying to please, if not our desires? Our friends, families, relatives? Even though Allah has ordered us to turn against those who encourage us to do evil? "You will not find those who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers or their kindred..." [Al Mujaadilah 58:22]

How many more favours of our Lord will we deny, my brothers and sisters? How ungrateful can a MUSLIM be? I remind myself before anybody else - we take the countless blessings Allah has bestowed upon us for granted - using them as a form of disobedience against Him. What right do we have to ignore Allah, the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth? We call ourselves people who submit ourselves to Allah, and ignore Him at the same time? How ridiculous we are! How pathetic we are! We have made a covenant with Allah (SWT). Can we afford to go against it? "The Day every soul will find what it has done of good present (before it) and what it has done of evil, it will wish that between itself and that (evil) was a great distance. And Allah warns you of Himself, and Allah is Kind to (His) servants." [Al Imran 3:30]

Every human being was created for us to worship Allah alone. We must live every aspect of our life according to Islam. We must spend what Allah has given for His sake, as Allah says, "O you who have believed, spend from that which We have provided for you before there comes a Day in which there is no exchange [i.e ransom] and no friendship and no intercession. And the disbelievers - they are the wrongdoers." [Al Baqarah 2:254]

We must wake up my dear brothers and sisters, for death shall approach us sooner than we would expect it.

"And the worldly life is not but amusement and diversion; but the home of the Hereafter is best for those who fear Allah, so will you not reason?" [Al An'aam 6:32]

Come join us this Saturday!

Time: 11 - 2 pm
Date: 20th October, 07
Venue: Cafe Villa, Rusholme, Wilmslow Road, Manchester

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