DO YOU PREFER DUNYA OR AAKHIRA?

DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDER. Yawmul ahad, 26th day of RabeeulAwwal, 1446AH (Sunday, 29th September 2024). *_DO YOU PREFER DUNYA OR AAKHIRA?_*. BismilLah. 

ALLAH says  in Qur'an 29:64

وَمَا هَذِهِ الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلاَّ لَهْوٌ وَلَعِبٌ

And this life of the world is only an amusement and a play! ALLAH tells us how insignificant and transient this world is and how it will soon end. All that it is, is amusement and play:

وَإِنَّ الدَّارَ الاْإخِرَةَ لَهِيَ الْحَيَوَانُ

Verily, the home of the Hereafter  that is the life indeed, meaning the true everlasting life that will never end, but will continue forever and ever.

لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ

if they but knew meaning, they would prefer that which will last over that which will pass away.

Then ALLAH says that at times of calamity, the idolators call upon HIM alone, with no partner or associate, so why do they not do that all the time!

Narrated Abu Hurairah [radhi-yAllahu 'anhu]: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said,"The first group (of people) who will enter Paradise will be (glittering) like the moon on a full-moon night. They will neither spit therein, nor blow their noses therein nor relieve nature. Their utensils therein will be of gold and their combs of gold and silver; in their censers, the aloeswood will be used, and their sweat will smell like musk. Everyone of them will have two wives; the marrow of the bones of the wives' legs will be seen through the flesh out of excessive beauty. They (the people of Paradise) will neither have difference nor enmity (hatred) amongst themselves; their hearts will be as if one heart, and they will be glorifying Allah in the morning and in the afternoon." [Sahih Al-Bukhari, 4/3245 (O.P.468)]. *_May ALLAH grant us Jannatul Firdaus through HIS Mercy_*. Aameen.