All through your life you have no doubt made great efforts to obtain things you wanted.
Think of your academic career, for instance. You probably still have memories of many exams you sat. The most important of these are university entrance exams. Most young people describe university entrance exams as turning points in their lives.
They think that an exam lasting just a few hours will shape their whole futures.
They therefore spend years working, going without sleep, giving up a whole range of social activities, and devote themselves solely to their studies.
Their only aim is to get into the university of their choice. They demonstrate great patience and determination in order to do so.
A person whose greatest ambition in life is to own a nice house on the other hand, first needs to possess the necessary financial resources to acquire it.
Such people work day and night to find a good job and improve their means, for which reason they make great efforts to earn as much as possible.
Only after long years of work and sacrifice can that person buy the house that he has set his heart on.
As well as these, if a person also has ambitions such as obtaining wealth, the esteem of society, fame and a specific career, then he needs to work hard for them and be prepared to endure certain difficulties.
Yet these examples you are watching are restricted to the transitory benefits that can be acquired in the life of this world.
And all these benefits disappear with death, or can suddenly be taken away while one is still alive. For instance, a young person who has spent the years doing nothing but working in order to pass his exams can lose his life in an accident without even having taken those exams.
Or the house that someone bought after years of hard work can burn down, destroying all that effort and hard work.
All the things that people want to lay their hands on in the life of this world are transitory. Yet alongside these, there is also a real life of endless beauty and infinite blessings. That is the life in the hereafter that comes after we die.
The life of this world is merely a temporary testing place, in which people are tried before they reach the infinite hereafter...
THE WORLD IS A TESTING PLACE
God has created people for a purpose, one which He has revealed in the Qur'an;
I only created jinn and man to worship Me. (Qur'an, 51: 56)
Stretching away in front of man, who was created solely to worship God, is a short lifespan of some 60 to 70 years.
And that life flows constantly, like sand in an egg-timer. People live in a constant countdown to the hereafter.
Time inevitably destroys everyone and everything. And those who devote themselves to this temporary world will suffer a terrible loss.
That is because the life of this world is terribly short compared to that of the hereafter. This fact is revealed in a verse:
The life of the world, compared to the hereafter, is only fleeting enjoyment. (Qur'an, 13: 26)
It is very clear that the purpose behind the creation of man, a being who possesses reason, conscience and common sense, is not to acquire temporary benefits in the short life of this world.
Man is tested, and the aim behind is for him to win the beauty of endless life in the hereafter.
MAN IS TESTED BY GOOD AND EVIL
A person may encounter all kinds of trouble in this world.
Moments of trouble and difficulty can occur when least expected.
For instance, a rich man can grow poor, he may encounter failure in an area in which he had always previously succeeded, he may lose a loved one, or fall ill, or be crippled ...
Yet all these things are meant to test him. The important thing is for people to live by the morality of the Qur'an in these moments of difficulty, to call on God at all times, to give thanks for his situation, and realise that there is good and beauty in them.
On the other hand, another person may live in wealth and plenty and enjoy many blessings.
In that case, too, he needs to display the kind of morality that God will find pleasing, turn to God in all his actions, and take great care to obey His commands and advice.
That is because abundance can make someone caught up in the transitory joys of this world and forget about the hereafter.
Yet a person who has faith is never ungrateful to God, no matter what blessings he may enjoy. The Qur'an describes the tests that believers may face in this world, and the kind of attitude they should adopt in the face of them:
We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and loss of wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the steadfast: Those who, when disaster strikes them, say, "We belong to God and to Him we will return." Those are the people who will have blessings and mercy from their Lord; they are the ones who are guided. (Qur'an, 2: 155-157)
TO SELL THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD FOR THE HEREAFTER
There are many beauties and attractions in this world that can influence or distract people
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SubhanaAllah, how beautiful is this talk and the video. May Allah swt bless you and your family with all the goods in this world and Jannat al Firdous in the hereafter, with all muhmineen in this world.
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