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AFTERLIFE

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Were you created only for this world that you spend all your time on it?O my world-worshipping soul! Does your slackness in worship and remissness in the prescribed prayers arise from the multiplicity of your worldly occupations, or because you cannot find time due to the struggle for…September 3, 2024
Your Doomsday Before DoomsdayYou have illusions and see the exceedingly temporary world as undying and permanent. When you look around yourself at the world, you see it as stable to a degree, and constant. Since looking with the same view you also…September 2, 2024
Heaven Before HeavenBelief in the hereafter is fundamental to the life of society and to man’s personal life, and is the basis of his happiness, prosperity, and achievement. The First: It is only with the thought of Paradise that children…September 2, 2024
Where will the Great Gathering and Last Judgment take place?The Answer: The knowledge is with Allah alone. The elevated instances of wisdom the All-Wise Creator displays in all things, and His even attaching vast instances of wisdom to a single insignificant thing, suggests to…September 2, 2024
Misfortunate as a Divine FavorEach age has particular characteristics. In this age of neglect misfortune has changed its form. In certain ages and for certain persons, misfortune is not in reality misfortune, but rather a divine favour. Since I…September 2, 2024
Real MisfortuneTrue and harmful misfortune is that which affects religion. One should at all times seek refuge at the divine court from misfortune in matters of religion and cry out for help. But misfortunes that do not affect…September 2, 2024
Infinite generosity requires infinite bountyOn Resurrection and The Hereafter The Gate of Generosity and Mercy, the Manifestation of the Names of Generous (Al-Karim) and Merciful (Al-Rahim) Is it at all possible that the Lord of this world, Who in His works…September 2, 2024
Attention of Men Cannot be DemandedBe aware that the attention of men cannot be demanded, but only given. If it is given, one should not delight in it. If one delights in it, sincerity is lost and hypocrisy takes its place. The attention of men, if…September 2, 2024
Behave Justly to Your BrotherA satanic wile corrupting the life of society is this: not to see all the virtues of a believer on account of a single bad point. Those unjust people who heed this wile of Satan are in this way inimical to believers.…September 2, 2024
Du’a For Happiness in This Life and NextWhoever makes this fleeting life his purpose and aim is in fact in Hell even if apparently in Paradise. And whoever is turned in all seriousness towards eternal life receives the happiness of both worlds. However…September 2, 2024
Accepting Your Faults Attract the Forgiveness of AllahAnother of Satan’s cunning wiles is to prevent man admitting his faults so that the way of seeking forgiveness and taking refuge with Allah should be closed. He also incites the egotism of the human soul, so that the…September 2, 2024
Everlasting CompanionshipThe most comprehensive centre of man’s worldly life, and its mainspring, and a paradise, refuge, and fortress of worldly happiness, is the life of the family. Everyone’s home is a small world for him. And the life and…September 2, 2024
Peace of Mind for EldersIt is only through the life of the hereafter that the elderly, who form half of mankind, can endure the proximity of the grave, and be consoled at the thought that their lives, to which they are firmly attached, will…September 2, 2024
illness-great-reminderThe fact that those who come to this world continuously depart, and the young grow old, and man perpetually revolves amid death and separation testifies that he did not come to this world to enjoy himself and receive…September 2, 2024
Is Jesus (Upon Whom Be Peace) Alive?There are five levels of life: The First Level of Life is that of our life, which is very restricted. The Second Level of Life is that of Khidr and Ilyas (May Allah grant them peace), which is free to an extent. That is…September 2, 2024
Using obstinacy in a better way!Man also displays intense ambition for possessions and position, then he sees that the transient property which has been put temporarily under his supervision, and calamitous fame and position, which are dangerous and…September 2, 2024
We Are Chosen Ones!“All of us beings we come forth emerging by the power of the Pre-Eternal Ruler from the darkness of non-existence to the light of existence, and all of us, we sons of Adam, were sent as officials privileged above our…September 2, 2024
Three Ways to GraveThe grave is there and no one can deny it. Whether they want to or not, everyone must enter it. And apart from the following three ‘Ways’, there is no other way it can be approached: First Way: For those who believe…September 2, 2024
Questions and AnswersQuestion-1: What wisdom does it spring from, Adam (Upon whom be peace) being expelled from Paradise and some of mankind, the sons of Adam, being sent to Hell? What was the reason for it? Answer-1: The reason for it…September 2, 2024
Recognizing and Obeying AllahI repeat to the calamity-stricken prisoners what I said to the schoolboys: “One who recognizes Him and obeys Him is fortunate even if he is in prison. While one who forgets Him is wretched and a prisoner even if he…September 2, 2024
Death does not ChangeO my soul! Do not say, “The times have changed, this age is different, everyone is plunged into this world and worships this life. Everyone is drunk with the struggle for livelihood.” For death does not change.…September 2, 2024
Eternal HappinessJust as, contrary to other living beings, man has relations with his home, so he has relations with the world, and just as he has relations with his relatives, so by nature he has earnest relations with mankind. And…September 2, 2024
The Most Fortunate ManSince this world is transitory, and since life is short, and since the truly essential duties are many, and since eternal life will be gained here, and since the world is not without an owner, and since this guest-house…September 2, 2024
Do you know where you are going?“O mankind! Do you know where you are going and to where you are being impelled? A thousand years of happy life in this world cannot be compared to one hour of life in Paradise. And a thousand years of life in Paradise…September 2, 2024
Cry Not Out Misfortune!Cry not out at misfortune, O wretch, come, trust in Allah! For know that crying out compounds the misfortune and is a great error. * * * Find misfortune’s Sender, and know it is a gift within gift, and pleasure. So…September 2, 2024
True Affirmation of Divine Unity (Tawhid al-Haqiqi)The affirmation of Divine Unity (Tawhid) is of two sorts. For example, if the goods of a rich man arrive in a market or a town, there are two ways in which it is known they are his. One is briefly and simply, as with…September 2, 2024
Reality of the DeathDeath is a discharge from the duties of life; it is a rest, a change of residence, a transformation of existence; it is an invitation to eternal life, a beginning, the introduction to an immortal life. Just as life…August 31, 2024
Death is a Created Bountyاَلَّذِى خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيٰوةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ اَيُّكُمْ اَحْسَنُ عَمَلاً Who creates death and life that He may try you, which of you is the best in conduct .(67:2) Verses like this in the All-Wise Qur’an, the…August 31, 2024
Were you created only for this world?O my world-worshipping soul! Does your slackness in worship and remissness in the prescribed prayers arise from the multiplicity of your worldly occupations, or because you cannot find time due to the struggle for…August 31, 2024
The Spring: Numerous Indications of ResurrectionIs it at all possible that the One Who gives life to this vast dead and dry earth; Who in so doing demonstrates His power by deploying more than three hundred thousand different forms of creation, each of them as…August 31, 2024
How to transform habitual actions into worship?O soul (nafs)! If, in a brief life, you want to do something that will profit you infinitely in the hereafter, and you want every moment of your life to be as beneficial as a life-time, and if you want to transform your…August 31, 2024
Great News Behind DeathTHE SEVENTH PHRASE: وَيُمِيتُ“And deals death” He is the one who causes death. He discharges you from the duty of life, changes your abode from this transitory world, and releases you from the labour of service. That…August 31, 2024
The Necessity of the HellThere is no contradiction between the existence and ghastly torments of Hell, and infinite mercy, true justice, and wisdom with its balance and absence of waste. Indeed, mercy, justice, and wisdom require its existence.…August 31, 2024
Youth will DepartAs is described in A Guide For Youth , there is no doubt that youth will depart; it will change into old age and death as certainly as the summer gives its place to autumn and winter, and the day changes into evening…August 31, 2024
Making Clean: A Greatest ManifestationThe universe is a vast, constantly working factory and the globe of the earth a hostel and guesthouse which is continually filled and emptied. Generally, factories, hostels and guesthouses which are thus used become…August 31, 2024
Regret or ThanksWhenever one thinks of his past life, he will say in his heart or with his tongue either “Ah!” or “Oh!” . That is he will either experience regret, or say “Thanks and praise be to Allah!” . Regret is inspired by the…August 31, 2024