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How does life after death affects a muslims life style

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How does hereafter affect life

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 57 Surah Hadid verses 20-21:

Know it well that the life of this world is nothing but a sport and a pastime, and a show, and a thing of boasting among yourselves, and a rivalry in wealth and children. Its example is of vegetation after a shower of rain, which delights the tillers; then the same ripens and you see it turn yellow; then it becomes straw. Contrary to this, in the life to come there is severe torment; and forgiveness from Allah and His Good Pleasure. The life of this world is nothing but an illusionary screen.

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 29 Surah Ankaboot verse 64:

And the life of this world is nothing but a sport and a pastime. The home of real life is indeed the Hereafter. Would that these people knew (what awaits them)!

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah Anam verse 32:

This worldly life is but a sport and a pastime. In fact, the abode of the Hereafter is better for those who desire to be safe from harm. Will you not, then, use your common sense?

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 43 Surah Zukhruf verse 83:

Well, let them remain absorbed in their falsehoods and sports, till they see that Day of theirs with which they are being threatened.

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 7 Surah Aaraaf verses 50-51:

(On the Day of Judgement) The inmates of Hell will cry out to the people of Paradise: “Pour upon us a little water or throw down a bit of the provisions Allah has bestowed upon you.” The people of Paradise will reply, “Allah has forbidden both these things to the disbelievers, who had made their religion a sport and a pastime, and who had been deluded by the worldly life.” Then Allah will say, “Today We will forget them just as they forgot the meeting of this Day, and rejected Our Revelations.”

 

Your Question: how does life after death affects a muslims life style? 

Beloved Sister in Islam, in reality it is only, and we reiterate, ONLY the true concept of the Hereafter which effects the lifestyle of any individual in this world!

 

If one does not understand, or comprehend, or believe in the true concept of the Last Day as enshrined in the Glorious Quran and Sunnah, it is only obvious that one will spend his life in the mere pursuit of satisfying his greed and his lust and the fulfillment of his ‘lower’ desires.

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 79 Surah Naziat verses 34-41:

34 Therefore when there comes the Great Overwhelming (Event, The Day of Judgment!)

35 The Day when Man shall remember (all) that he strove for

36 And Hell-Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see

37 Then for such as had transgressed all bounds

38 And had preferred the life of this world

39 The Abode will be Hell-Fire;

40 And for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's (Tribunal) and had restrained (their) soul from ‘lower desires’

41 Their abode will be the Garden.

 

In contrast the one who believes and truly understands the concept of the Last Day will realize that the short and transitory life of this world is but a period of passing trials and tests ordained by the Lord Creator; that the mission of creation by the Creator has a much higher purpose than mere sport, and play, and amusements; and above all will comprehend that the way an individual spends this short period on earth will determine whether one succeeds or fails in the eternal and everlasting life of the Hereafter.

 

Thus the individual who truly comprehends the reality of the Hereafter will not ‘waste’ his time in satisfying his self, his greeds, his lusts, or his ‘lower desires’; but rather will ‘invest’ his proportioned time in doing the prescribed deeds which will earn him the Pleasure and Good Will of his Lord Creator in his pursuit of salvation for the Hereafter. Every word and every deed that will earn him success in the Hereafter will be extremely valuable to him; and every word or deed which has been proportioned no value in the Hereafter will be absolutely worthless to such an individual.

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 18 Surah Kahf verses 103-108:

103 Say: "Shall we tell you of those who lose most in respect of their deeds?

104 (They are) Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life while they thought that they were acquiring good by their works?"

105 They are those who deny the Signs of their Lord, and the fact of their having to meet Him (in the Hereafter): vain will be their works, nor shall We on the Day of Judgment give them any weight.

106 That is their reward: Hell; because they rejected Faith and took My Signs and My Messengers by way of jest.

107 As to those who believe and work righteous deeds they have for their entertainment the Gardens of Paradise

108 Wherein they shall dwell (forever): no change will they wish for from them.

 

Beloved Sister, the only reason and the mission for the Lord appointing His Messengers and Revealing His Books was to guide mankind to the Reality of the transient and temporary nature of his paltry worldly life and the Truth of the permanent nature of the Eternal and Everlasting life of Pleasures and Luxuries of the Hereafter.

 

The life of one who chooses to refuse, deny and reject this all-important and invaluable Divine Guidance of their Lord Creator will ‘waste’ his allotted time in pursuing the pleasures of this short and transitory world; but the life of one who truly accepts the Guidance of their Lord will ‘invest’ his allotted time in seeking the True and Eternal life of the Hereafter.

 

The life of one who does not believe will be wasted in pursuing the earning and squandering of as much wealth as he can, and/or the relentless pursuit of his lusts, and/or the desire to gain as much status, or recognition, or fame as he can accumulate!

 

But the life of one who sincerely believes in Allah and the Last Day will be ‘invested’ in doing deeds which will earn him the Pleasure and Good Will of his Lord Creator in the Hereafter. He will only pursue those things in this world which will further his cause and mission of salvation in the Hereafter; and will strive to abstain from doing deeds which has no ‘weight’ in the Sight of the Majestic Lord in the Hereafter.

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 29 Surah Ankaboot verse 64:

And the life of this world is nothing but a sport and a pastime. The home of real life is indeed the Hereafter. Would that these people knew (what awaits them)!

 

If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be assured of never ever being misled; but if one believes, obeys and follows any other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be assured of being led astray.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

 

Burhan

 


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