Have you felt like
you’ve accomplished so much and get rewarded with all these fantastic things,
big house, money, high-tech handphones, ipads, labtops, big cars, and got
accepted to a well known university. And you feel like you have everything;
great family, great friends, good grades etc. Is that the purpose of life?
Could the acquisition of wealth guarantee happiness? Well, lremember this verse
from the Quran :
“O My People! The life of this world is only temporary enjoyment, while the abode of hereafter is everlasting” (Surah Al Mu’min : 39)
Our purpose of life is
to ibadah or worship The Almighty who gave us the life and to please Him which
we’ll lead us to Jannah. Dunya is indeed a temporary place for us to live as
stated in this ayah. We are like a traveller. Our destination is Jannah where
we’ll live forever. InsyaAllah. And Dunya is a pit stop that we take, to make
preparations, and well it is where we are tested, to test our faith. Because in
this verse
“Do the people think
that they will be left alone on saying “we believe,” and they will not be
tested? We did test those who have gone before them. Allah has to see who are
the truthful and who are the liars “ ( Surah An-kabut :
2-3)
Allah has even tested
the people before us, among them are all the prophets and the people who were
with them. We are all to be tested. All these rewards and ease in dunya are
actually tests. In fact, ease is a more difficult test than hardships are..
Allah tests us whether we are grateful to Him or if we have patience, and
tests us whether we still remember Him through all the temptations and rewards.
“Rivalry in worldly
increase distracts you (from the remembrance of Allah), till you come to the
graves” (surah At-Takkathur: 1-2).
Because humans tend to
forget The Creator when we are happy and our life is easy-going and only go to
Allah when facing a tremendous hardship. Remember that nothing in dunya stays,
whether it’s the hardships or the ease. And remember that this ease, we
are just borrowing them from Allah. Nothing is ours. Allah can take it from us
whenever He wants.
“...We all belong to
Allah and to Him we shall return.” ( surah Al-Baqarah :
2:156)
People would wonder,
“He/She doesn’t pray, or doesn’t cover their aurah, but Allah gives them
straight A’s” Allah tests his servants in dunya in any ways possible and
different ways for different people. Some people are tested with being poor and
have hardships. And we hear people say “I have all I need there is to be
happy even if I’m not really an obedient muslim, then why would Allah reward me
with these?” which reward do we really want? Which reward are we really after?
Rewards in dunya or rewards in akhirah? Temporary or eternal? We have sadly
become distracted and absorbed by this dunya, and lost sight of
our purpose
“No, you prefer the
life of this world, while the hereafter is better and that which remains”
Life is just a test. Don’t give into these
temptations. We are given life here in dunya to obey Allah and all his order.
To have faith in Allah, and to always remember Him no matter what; through
thick or thin, through ease and hardships.
Believe in the azabs we’ll get if we don’t obey Him.
Na’uzubillahiminzalik. Believe in the Day of Judgement where will be judged on
our iman, ibadahs, practices, ihsan but on not how much money we had on earth.
Never let dunya into your heart. Hold dunya with your hands and believe
in akhirah with your heart. We live here to be prepared for the life after
We’ll never have all of dunya, but the eternity can be ours. And happiness can
be ours by focusing on the reality of Allah’s reward, which is without
reckoning. Everything in this world is accounted for, on our bank statement,
every penny counts. In the akhirah, no hisab, just the Divine generosity, and
that which is eternal is limitless and expression of His rahmah and generosity.
Subhanallah. It will all worth it in the end, akhirah, when we step in to the
beautifiul gardens of Paradise. InsyaAllah
It’s never too late to repent to Allah. Allah opens our door for taubah
just so wide I can’t imagie MasyaAllah. He is the Forgiver, He is the most
Merciful. He is the most Gracius. Allah
is near and he is waiting for us to go to Him, to cry to Him, to worship Him,
to bend on our knees for Him, to pray Him, to let out all of our sorrows and
griefs to Him, to have gratitude in Him. He’ll listen. He’ll never stop
listening. Have eman and work righteous actions, and take small consistent steps
to improve – you will enjoy super productivity in this world and joy in the
next insha’Allah! O’Allah have mercy on us and save us from the
hellfire.
“And those who believe and do righteousgood deeds, they are dwellers or paradise,they will dwell therein forever” (surah Al Baqarah : 82)
There are just so many verses
in the Quran on entering Jannah for the believers! Subhanallah!
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