Daily Reflections - "Death " ***

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*Daily Reflections - Death

Kullu nafsin dhaa ‘iqatul mowt


'Every soul, shall taste death.And only on the day of Resurrection will you be given your full compensation. Whoever is removed away from the fire and admitted to Paradise, he indeed is successful. And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion' [03:185>

Every minute gone by is a minute closer to death, every hour is an hour less on this world, every day are deeds on our record and every year is a year closer to meeting Allah (swt). Allah (swt) is Al-Muhyi, He (swt) gave us life and He is Al-Mumit, the Causer of death and to Him His slaves will return.

Nothing in this life is certain. We don’t know what will happen tomorrow, yet we are very concerned with preparing for our uncertain goals and unknown future. Consider, that the only thing we know for sure, is that one day, we will die. Death is the event, that we should live our lives preparing for. If you knew something was going to happen, if you knew, you had to prepare for something because it was definitely going to happen, would you not do everything in your means, in your power, to prepare the best you could for it?

Imagine an exam. You revise before, make sure you know everything inside out, try and predict what questions might come up, do some practice questions, so that you are confident and capable during the exam. Its exam time, you’re nervous, not sure how to tackle some of the problems, it’s a tough exam and you just about managed to answer the questions, you hope to get the pass mark and hope those multiple choice questions elevate and add to your marks. At the end of the exam you are told to put your pens down and stop writing. You can’t write any more, you can’t open the paper again; what you have written, is what will be marked. Then you have this waiting period, between the exam and the results. How did you do, you wonder? When you get your results; they will make you happy, or they will disappoint you

So, liken this revision to the way we prepare ourselves in this life, for this life and the hereafter; The strength of our emaan, following of the Qur’an and Sunnah…
Liken the questions in the exam, to the different tests and trials we encounter in our life. How effectively we deal with them, depends on how well we did our preparation. InshAllah we hope we deal with our tests like a believer, so they elevate our status with Allah (swt) and add to our good deeds.
Liken the end of the exam, to our death. No going back, no chance to change what we have done. The only thing that will be carried forward is our deeds.
Liken the waiting period, to the time we will be accounted in the court of Allah (swt) on the Day of Resurrection.
Liken getting our results, to the time we will fine our whether our eternal abode is with Allah (swt) or with Shaiytan.

The only difference between the two exams, is that with the first one, in dunya you can do a re-take.

The Prophet (saw) said, ‘Whoever loves meeting Allah (swt), Allah loves meeting him. And whoever hates meeting Allah, Allah (swt) hates meeting him’ [Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah>. As death approaches, a true believer has a strong desire to meet his Lord, a desire that should surpass our attachment to this dunya, and our fear of death. Only the person who lived their life loving Allah (swt) and whose actions were solely for Allah (swt), will love to meet Allah (swt).

So InshAllah death is something that should be at the forefront of our minds, its realisation manifested in our deeds, for we should exhaust our time preparing for it.

Just to finish with something related to this. We may have lost someone dear to us, and washing a dead body, is probably one of the hardest things one has to do. But there is a lot of reward for shrouding a believer, and burying them with honour. It serves as a profound reminder of death. Just to take this opportunity to encourage getting involved with your local masjid etc, because often there are brother or sisters, who don’t have family, let alone enough people to wash them with Izzah and pray their Janazah. Rush to this deed, if you can InshAllah.

‘He who washes a Muslim and conceals what he sees, Allah grants him forgiveness forty times. And he who digs for him (a grave) and buries him would be granted a reward similar to providing for him a dwelling until the Day of Resurrection. And he who shrouds him, Allah will clothe him on the Day of Resurrection from the silk garments of Jannah.” [Al-hakim, Al-Bayhaqi and others>

Regardless of how many times this topic has been covered before, it cannot be covered enough. I pray that when we taste death, its taste may be sweet with a love of meeting Allah (swt). May we be clothed in silk garments of Jannah, removed from the fire, granted true success and reunited with all those whom we love. Ameen.

Posted 18 May 2009

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