Well sometimes you need an impossible dream, something you know that you won't ever be able to achieve but for sure you'll keep trying as it brings you peace, harmony, satisfaction in your heart, brain and soul. The important thing here is that you'll keep trying till the end, wrestling with yourself, with the humanity to try making your dream come true. We should live for something that would make us live for tomorrow, always looking forward for the next opportunity.
There is one such dream that if you strive here, you'll attain it and it will the the epilogue of your material life. That dream is to die as a muslim and get Allah's satisfaction and paradis in the progress. How many among us have this dream engraved in us? How many among us know the fact that we will be accountable for the life that we got here? How many among us who know it but ignore it completely in the dream of catching a materialistic paradis? Are we looking for temporary success or the eternal one? It's time for us to stop and think about what we have done till now, it is enough? it is acceptable that we continue our life the way it is now?
I know it is very hard to do it if we are too much engrossed in this world. That's why after much reflexion, i decided to came up with some questions that will make you assess your life easier. Make good use of it and most of all, be sincere to yourself as you'll be examining yourself with no one to make sure you're cheating on yourself or not. So let us be completely sincere to ourselves in answering these questions and decide what we really need to do after we got the answer. It will depend solely on your own reactions and I sincerely wish you best of luck!
COUNT YOURSELF:
Have you prayed Fajr, every day with the group, in the Masjid?
Did you perform all of the prayers daily inside the Masjid, with the group?
Did you read from the Book of Allah (Qur’an) today?
Did you mention Allah (SWT) and Glorify Him after each prayer?
Did you keep the extra prayers (Sunnah) before or after each prayer?
Were you concentrating daily on your prayers by meditating on what you said in your prayers?
Have you remembered Death and the grave today?
Have you thought about the Day of Judgment and its overwhelming hardship?
Have you asked Allah (SWT) three times to permit you into
Have you asked Allah to protect you from the Hellfire today, three times? If you did the Hellfire will say: Oh Allah, protect him/her from me(Tirmidhi)
Did you read a Hadith about the Prophet (s.a.w.s) today?
Haven’t you thought about being away from those who are evil doers?
Have you tried to avoid laughing and joking too much or too often?
Did you thank Allah (SWT) for bestowing on you the hearing, sight, heart, and all the other gifts?
Did you pay charity today to the poor and needy?
Did you get angry for your own sake or for the sake of Allah (SWT)?
Did you avoid arrogance and self admiration?
Have you cried today out of the fearness of Allah (SWT)?
Did you mention Allah (SWT) after Fajr or Isha prayer?
Have you asked Allah (SWT) to forgive you from the sins and transgressions that you have committed, by making (astaghfar), seeking forgiveness from sins?
Did you ask Allah (SWT) sincerely and honestly today to grant you shahadat (martyrdom)? The Prophet (s.a.w.s) said: the one who asks Allah (SWT) sincerely grant him/her shahadat, Allah (SWT) will grant it to him/her even though he/she dies in his/her bed. (Muslim)
Did you ask Allah (SWT) to stabilize your heart and your religion?
Did you take the opportunity to make dua (supplication) in the hours that Allah (SWT) accepts them?
Did you buy a new Islamic book for the sake of learning from it the knowledge of the religion?
Muhammad Faaleh.
