The Time to Prepare for Death | Hazrat Maulana Shah Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar Sahib (Rehmattulah Aliah)

Book: What is the Reality of Tasawwuf

19. The Time to Prepare for Death

What has our condition become nowadays that we are totally engrossed in nothing but eating, drinking and going to the toilet? We eat in the evening and defecate it in the morning. Consume, earn and sleep. Wake up in the morning,work till night, wake up in the morning again, and go on with the same routine. Like this, our whole lives have passed!

Suddenly a day will come when the Angel of Death, Hazrat Izra’il (

) will remove our souls and this life will come to an end. What benefit will it be to regret at that time? Neither will we be able to perform a single Salah in the grave nor will we be able to fast. In order to benefit ourselves beneath the earth, we need to perform good deeds above the earth. Since after going to our graves we will not be able to perform good deeds. Therefore, make an effort to attain Deen in your lives now. It should not be such that you say, ‘no one had told us.’

This Deen was revealed over a period of 23 years. Therefore, I cannot teach you the whole Deen in 10 minutes. What I can do is guide you towards learning Deen and having some concern about the hereafter.

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