assalamu alaykum
I had a sudden vision last night, while driving home with my mum from our never-ending shopping sprees (we don’t actually end up buying anything usually)
I saw this sign on a musical instruments store: ‘Sign up for Guitar Lessons’ and for some reason, my mind fast forwarded to a scene which looked like the Day of Judgement, with people everywhere, crowding the earth, screaming, and that sign blowing away amidst a whirlwind of dust…no one caring about guitars, or music, or any kind of enjoyment, or any pleasure they had in this world…just waiting in that terrible unimaginable heat, for what was going to happen next, and it wasn’t happening…it’s not going to happen for a few more thousands of years, we’ll be standing there waiting for our judgement for thousands of years. And our time in this world is going to seem so futile, so little, like an hour of the day which we will wish then, that we had spent the way Allah had wanted us to. It’s just one day. One day that we have to avoid a few things, and do things for His sake. Yet it’s so hard. We keep forgetting.
Alhamdulillah that we remind ourselves now and then, or actually, Allah reminds us, just by making us look at something on the way home.
I was reminded of the end of Surah An-Nazi’at:
But when there comes the greatest catastrophe (i.e. the Day of Recompense), (34) The Day when man shall remember what he strove for, (35) And Hell-fire shall be made apparent in full view for (every) one who sees, (36) Then, for him who transgressed all bounds (37) And preferred the life of this world, (38 ) Verily, his abode will be Hell-fire; (39) But as for him who feared standing before his Lord, and restrained himself from impure evil desires, and lusts. (40) Verily, Paradise will be his abode. (41) They ask you (O Muhammad (SAW)) about the Hour, – when will be its appointed time? (42) You have no knowledge to say anything about it, (43) To your Lord belongs (the knowledge of) the term thereof? (44) You (O Muhammad (SAW)) are only a warner for those who fear it, (45) The Day they see it, (it will be) as if they had not tarried (in this world) except an afternoon or a morning. (46)
May Allah make us strive to be among the dwellers of the highest Paradise, InshaAllah.
