THE VALUE OF THIS WORLD. Preparing for the Real Success

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*THE VALUE OF THIS WORLD*

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*Preparing for the Real Success*

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_Jabir b. Abdullah رضي الله عنه reported that Allah's Apostle ﷺ happened to walk through the bazar coming from the side of 'Aliya and the people were on his both sides. There he found a dead lamb with very short ears. He took hold of his ear and said:_

_"Who amongst you would like to have this for a dirham?"_

_They said: "We do not like to have it even for less than that as it is of no use to us."_

_He said: "Do you wish to have it ?"_

_They said: "By Allah, even if it were alive we would not have liked to have that for there is defect in it as its ear is very short; now it is dead also. "_

Thereupon Allah's Messenger ﷺ said: 

*فوالله لدنيا أهون على الله من هذا عليكم*

_*"By Allah, this world is more insignificant in the eye of Allah than it is in your eye.*"_

[Sahih Muslim 2957]

On the other hand

In Jannah, is that which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart is able to perceive.

This is the comparison between The Dunya we chase and the Jannah we neglect.

Allah ﷻ says:

*كَلَّا بَلْ تُحِبُّونَ ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ*

_Nay! Rather you love the present life._

*وَتَذَرُونَ ٱلْءَاخِرَةَ*

_And you neglect the hereafter._

[75:20-21]

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Even though numerous times Allah ﷻ pointed out its fatal flaw, and reminded us that Jannah is waiting.

Like 

*وَمَا ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنْيَآ إِلَّا لَعِبٌۭ وَلَهْوٌۭ ۖ وَلَلدَّارُ ٱلْءَاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌۭ لِّلَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَ ۗ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ*

_And the life of this world is nothing except play and amusement, and the abode of the hereafter is better for those with Taqwa, will you not reason?_

[6:32]

It's fatal flaw being is it being temporary! 

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Yet we continue to exchange that which is priceless for that which is worth less than a dead goat! 

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So will we not use our 'Aql (intellect)? 

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Turn back to Allah ﷻ and prepare for the real success, in the hereafter!

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