I advise you, my friend, to catch up with good peoplewho will benefit
you even after you die by Allah's Leave by making du'aa for you. Catch
up with them and keep company with them wherever they come and go; be
patient with them until you meet your Lord, then it may be said to you
and to them:
"Salaamun 'Alaykum (peace be upon you) for you persevered in patience!
Excellent indeed is the final home!" [al-Ra'ad 13:24 interpretation of
themeaning]
A story and an attitude
There was a man who waswith the righteous, then he left them and
started tofall short in his religious commitments. One day he was
going on a trip, and his car overturned on the road. He was
resuscitated, then he died.
The sad news came. We prayed over him, and he was taken and placed in
his grave. His grave was filled with bricks and earth, and he would
never come back. Tears flowed and hearts were filled withgrief. One of
the righteous people, I think he was righteous, but Allah knowsbest
and I do not praise anyone before Allah, who was one of his former
friends, sat by his grave with his head bowed, making du'aa for him.
Thus I knew what kind of friends could benefit a man after his death.
My brother, beware lest you become one of those of whom Allah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
"And (remember) the Day when the Dhaalim (wrongdoer, oppressor,
polytheist) will bite at his hands, he will say:
"Oh! Would that I had taken a path with the Messenger (Muhammad).
"Ah! Woe to me! Would that I had never taken so and so as a Khaleel
(an intimate friend)!
He indeed led me astray from the Reminder (this Qur'aan) after it had
come to me."
And Shaytaan (Satan) is to man ever a deserter in the hour of need"
[al-Furqaan 25:27-29]
Before the door is closed
My dear brother, before the door is closed, decide from now, and do
not delay, the path that you want to follow, which will be your path
in this world and in the Hereafter.
What great joy and happiness is to be found when a person comes backto
his Lord, regretting (his sin) and joining the caravan of the
righteous. By Allah it is joy which no one tastes except those who
experience this.
My brother in Allah, if you have resolved to repent and turn back to
your Lord, then know that thereare conditions which must be met when
repenting:
1- Regret for what is past.
2- Giving up the sin.
3- Resolving not to go back to it. But if you do it again, then repent
to Allahagain but your resolve must be genuine.
4- The repentance must come before the death-rattle reaches the throat
and before the sun rises in the west.
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