Saturday, August 13, 2011
Expiry.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Almost everything around us has an expiration date, whether it is known exactly when the date will be, for example food products, or just an estimation of days, months, or even years such as electrical appliances.
Human beings too has an expiration date. When an embryo begins to form in the mother's womb, before the ruuh is being blown into it, 4 things are being written for the embryo which in turn will be a human being later - with God's will - and one of them is death.
Death, an extremely certain and definite phase in life that one has to go through yet it is often the most neglected one. In the Quran and the Hadith, there are a lot of verses and sayings on how to go to Jannah ( Paradise ), sometimes specific acts are being mentioned and at times, just general description of any good acts. Yet, we tend to forget about the existence of death. How irony.
It hits to me that whenever we have some important events coming up, we will get ourselves prepared to give the best as we hope to only receive the best outcome and although the outcome is not within our control, we still give our very best but when preparations for death are concerned, we often forgot and forget to give our best although Allah has promised glad tidings for those who believe and do good; from maintaining relationship with Him to preserving good relationship with other human beings. The path to the promised Paradise is clear and He never, ever breaks his promise but why, why do we always think very little of our preparation in facing death?
Our expiration date is unknown. Maybe, we have our months to live, or even days, yet, even seconds before death meets us. So why not, we start by making our every single step, little step, a step closer to Him?
P.s I only pray, I have the strength.
The strength to realise that everything is actually a loan from Him and I don't even own a single thing.
She Blogged 11:57 PM