Remembering death and the grave. And remember Allah that you'd stand in front of Him one day. This cures weakness of iman. Trust me! I started giving lectures about the grave recently. And the more I give lectures on the grave, the more I hate everything I own. The more I despise this dunya., the more I'm satisfied with pretty much anything that comes in front of my path. Because what you realize is that you're going to be put in the ground. And you're not taking any of it with you. The onlt thing, The only currency of the akhirah is deeds. Whenyou reach that grave, it's almost as if there's a sign there that nothing beyond this point except amal salih. Nothing behind that except the good deeds that you've done. Or the bad deeds you've done. That's the only thing you can take beyond that point. So, dragging all this dunya around you, it's not going to be yours anymore. We must remember that the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said, "Remember often the destroyers of pleasures."
And what is this destroyer of pleasures? Death. Death is going to destroy all that what you've covered up in this life. When you're finally are at your death, you're going to take one final look at this world, and unfortunately, it's going to be the moment most of us realize, how feeble this dunya is. When we're about to leave it, when we're taking our last look at this world, we will realize this world is nothing. Nothing. We will realize how feeble it is. But the people who are blessed are people who realize that before death. The Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said aou this dunya, that once he was walking with his companions. And there was a dead carcass on the side of the road that was deformed. And he picked it up. It had little ears, it was deformed. He picked it up and he said, "Which one of you will buy this from me for a dinar?" The said, "Ya Rasulallah, we would not even take it if you gave it to us for free."
"We would not even take this dead stinking deformed carcass from you if it was free." He said, "Then, know that the world and everything it contains. All it's glitz, and glam, and gold, and wealth, and status, and money and fame, and fortune." He said, " All of it to Allah is more despised than this carcass is despise in your eyes." It means nothing. On the day of judgement, Allah (ajja wajal) is going to roll it all up. The heavens and earth Allah is going to roll it up. And hold it in his hand and say, "We're the kings of the earth today!" " The people who used to fight each other and kill each other, and strive, and do so much innjustice over this silly dunya, where are you today?'' When I've rolled all this up like it's nothing, do you not realize it was nothing?" Unfortunately, we won't realize that fact, untill we don' have it anymore. And you know the one thing that I guarantee you. And one of our Salaf said, "By Allah, every single son of Adam will regret every single moment they did not spend remembering Allah." Every singlemoment oyu did not spend remembering Allah, you will truly despise it, and regret it. We have to remember that we are leaving this dunya. We can't take any of it with us. We will regret. When the angel of deaths comes to them, they cry out. " Ya Rabb, Ya Rabb." " Send me back!" Why? Why do they want to get back? Do they want to go back to pray? Do they want to go back to see their family? Do they want to go? No. لَعَلِّي أَعْمَلُ صَالِحًا فِيمَا تَرَكْتُ ۚ كَلَّا ۚ إِنَّهَا كَلِمَةٌ هُوَ قَائِلُهَا ۖ وَمِن وَرَائِهِم بَرْزَخٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ - 23:100
So that I can go do some good with that with that which I left behind. So that which I left behind, I can go back and get it and do some good with it. Let us not be of those people InshaAllahu ta'ala. Let us do the good that we have while it is in front of us. And lets us avoid the evil that is in front of us while we're here.
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