Concern for the Hereafter

Concern for the Hereafter in Islam

بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم

If you were to ask a pedestrian on the road" Where are you coming from and where are you going?" and he annoy us and cannot give us an answer then you will think that he is crazy. Yet in our lives, we are guilty of practically the same heedlessness. We too are neither aware of our beginning, nor are we concerned about our end. We cannot live forever in this world. The death will come to us some day and we will left alone in a Horrible, dark grave. Our house, buildings, business, Money and all luxuries things will all be left behind.

The people who Claim to love us so much will bury us under a mound of earth, leaving us alone.

It will be a start of other world, the grave is the door to the other world. The day is fast-approaching when every one will be presented before Allah in a state where there will be complete silence and no one will be able to speak except the Lord of the worlds. This day, only truth will carry any weight and other than this everything will become inconsequential. This will be the day of Judgement and only death stands between us and this day all of us are steadily moving towards an outcome where we will have either eternal happiness or perpetual punishment.

Every moment that passes bring us even closer to that final outcome which will be the fate of each one of us, we will have to face the repercussions of our deeds in this relatively short life for an eternity.
While the comforts of the hereafter are very pleasurable, as the Prophet PBNUH said:

"A (small) place equal to an area occupied by a whip in paradise is better than the (whole) world and whatever is in it." (BUKHARI)
its discomforts are indeed very painful. The Prophet S.A.W said:

"The least tormented of the inhabitants of the fire would be he who would wear two shoes of fire and his brain would boil an account of the heat of the shoes" (Muslim)

The similitude of our life is that of an ice vendor whose capital is dwindling away very moment.
The only only way he can save himself from loss is to try to sell the ice before it melts; otherwise he will have nothing to show for his efforts and will have to return from the market empty-handed. So before death overtakes us and separates us permanently from this world which is the place for action and takes us to a place where there is only the outcome of our actions; it is necessary for us to focus on putting our abilities and resources to correct use.

Consciously or unconsciously, people think this world to be the place of measuring their success or failure. In the Qur'an we are told that this is merely a deception.
" The day that He assembles you (all) for a day of Assembly that will be a day of mutual loss and gain (among you)" (9:64)

This will be an intensely terrifying moment of a person's life and when it comes, a person will be horrified at seeing himself in a situation so contrary to his expectations. Suddenly he will realise that the life of the world which he thought was the only reality was nothing but a deception. He had thought that that he was free to do whatever he wanted, but in the end he found himself himself to be totally helpless. He had thought himself to be wealthy, but in fact, in the hereafter, he was empty handed; he had thought that he was powerful, but in fact in God's sight, he was weaker than a fly or mosquito. In this world he had thought he had the support of so many people, but there he was totally on his own.

Oh! Man is unaware if that reality with which he should be most familiar!

whatever a person wishes to do for his Hereafter is to be done in this very life itself. We do not know how much or little period of our lives we have left. How many people have we seen who have passed away before our eyes!

This life is all we have, and if we lose this opportunity, unlike the exams of this world there will be no second chance! There is an absolute finality about this life because every moment that passes away, passes away never to return again.
Allah says in Qur'an:
Every soul shall have a taste of death: and only on the day of Judgement shall you be paid your full recompense. Only he who is saved far from the fire and admitted to the garden will have attained the object (of life): for the life of this world is but goods and and chattels of deception(3:185)
This is an invitation to ponder on the reality of life. We earnestly request you to read it repeatedly and give it serious thought as we are sure that each one of you wants to be successful. It is also worth remembering that living Islam not only improves your Hereafter, but also the quality of your life in this very world.
Allah says in Qur'an:
Whoever works righteousness man or woman and has faith, verily to him will We give a new life, a life that is good and pure and We will bestow on such their reward according to the best of their actions."

I quoted it from an Pamphlet Named Concern for the Hereafter in the Light of Qur'an and Sunnah