that's it your life is very
short and this is another illusion that
it's amazing that although on one hand
the
materialist on one hand the materialist
teaches that life is a random event we
are like animals that's it we live and
we die really in reality they always
forget the dead bits they leave that and
they somehow imagine in spite of things
dying in front of them constantly the
whole time people seem to live under
this illusion that they are going to
live on this Earth forever so they build
fantastic houses and amazing palaces and
they surround themselves with wealth and
all sorts of things as if they are going
to be enjoying this
forever and really believe me some of
them actually really have this idea they
don't think they're going to die
my father may Allah guide him to Islam
he's 82 now 82 and he told me last year
for the first time in my life I feel
mortal for the first time in my life I
feel mortal that means my dad has 8 only
after 82 years has my dad suddenly
realize that I am going to die it's
taking him that
long and and my dad Allah subhana T gave
him a lot of strength you know if you
meet my dad most of you he he beat you
in tennis
easily Allah gave him this strength and
this energy but the disadvantage of that
is that he imagined I'm never going to
die and people fool themselves with that
and only maybe when they get very old
and they get weak and they start
realizing wait a minute my strength has
left me and I'm 82 years old and
no one is really going to live beyond 90
maybe 100 maximum you realize suddenly
no death is going to
come but maybe that's much too late to
start realizing that fact and also we
don't know when death is going to come
how many people live to my father's age
very few most people die long before
that so the other reality we have to be
aware
of the that the meaning of life is
actually not life itself but the meaning
of life is the end of life so the other
reality we have to be aware
of that the meaning of life is actually
not life itself but the meaning of life
is the end of
life the true meaning of life is the end
of life and this is explained so
beautifully in a Hadith of the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam said what have
I got to do with this world I am like a
rider on a journey who has taken rest
underneath the shade of a tree and then
continues on his journey let us think
about this beautiful
beautiful
similitude this allegory that the
prophet sallallah was has given us about
this D about this world
this world is like a man first of all
you imagine someone on a long journey
especially in those
days through the desert in the heat
traveling for many many hours many many
days in fact perhaps many
weeks so imagine you are on your camel
in the desert traveling for many days
what would happen do you think if you
did not stop and take a
rest if you did not stop and take a
rest you will not complete your journey
because you will fall off your camel
maybe in the night or the day from
exhaustion the camel would keep going
and you would be left in the desert
alone to die you need that rest that
rest is very important because that
moment that you take to rest gives you
more strength to carry on your your
journey and to reach your destination
yes so when the man is sitting
underneath the shade of the tree he is
getting what he needs in order to
complete his journey this is part of his
Z his provision his
provision okay so this is our existence
our existence is like a long journey
from when Allah he created us
until we reach our
destination but our destination is not
this world no this world is like the
rider who takes the shade underneath the
tree that tree and that shade is not his
destination is it he doesn't say that oh
that's how i' I've arrived now I've
reached my destination here I'm going to
stay
no his destination is some City or some
town or some place
he's only resting briefly to take what
he needs this is this life brothers and
sisters this life for us on this Earth
is like a man resting underneath the
shade of a tree on a journey we are here
just to take what we need in order to
reach our destination and what is our
destination that we want to reach that
we desire to reach it is
Paradise and the destination that we
want to avoid is the Hellfire
and the stage that we have to pass
before we get there is the day of
judgment and what is Allah going to
reckon for us and what is Allah going to
account for us except our Deeds good
deeds and bad Deeds so what do we need
from this life good deeds that is the
provision we need from this life that is
what we need to take from this world
Good Deeds so that we can reach our
destination
of paradise but most people my brothers
and sisters they are fooled they imagine
that this is the destination they have
been confused and they have been taken
in by the life of this world and they
have been deceived by the life of this
world and they imagine this is the
destination here I am I've arrived what
a beautiful world it is look at the sun
look at the trees look at these nice
things and they amass the wealth and
they build nice houses and they have
palaces for themselves and cars and they
believe this is
it so they do everything they can to
acquire the things of this world but the
reality is they will die and they will
not take any of it with them and then
they will see the true reality and they
will see that they have prepared nothing
for their
journey and when they meet Allah on the
day of judgment what deeds will they
have
what deeds will they have nothing they
acquired nothing with their
deeds they got no benefit from it
because they didn't do it and even the
things they did they didn't do that
hoping that they will have something
waiting for them in the next life these
people who did in some of them it's true
they do do good deeds they do good
deeds but these good deeds will only
benefit them in the life of this
world they did not do that seeking the
Hereafter it's no good if you have a
bank account and you just put your money
in the bank account all you will get is
what you put in but if you invest your
money in a
business or in in the terms of the kufar
if you put it in an interest bearing
account it's not Halal for us but I'm
just giving you an example if you put it
in interest bearing account then you not
only have your money but you have what
you have earned on top of
it yes you have the interest you have
earned so you're making something you
can't put your money in a normal account
and expect that you will get the return
on it you will not so a person who
invests all the effort in the duny how
can they expect that they are going to
get something in the when they meet
Allah because they did not invest in
that they only invested in the duny this
is another explanation why the Deeds of
the disbelievers are of no benefit to
them on the day of judgment they are of
no benefit to them on the day of
judgment because they invested only in
this life they did not invest in the
they did not invest in the life to come
and the only way you can invest in the
Life to Come is by following what Allah
wants us to follow by investing the way
Allah wants us to invest
by obeying him and obeying his messenger
according to what he has revealed by
worshiping Allah subhana wa tala alone
so this my brothers and sisters is
another very important thing to realize
about the life of the human being the
meaning of the life the meaning of life
actually is not this life the meaning of
life is the day that we are going to
stand in front of Allah and he is going
to weigh up for us and he is going to
account for us the things that we did
the good and the bad and we will be
rewarded and punished accordingly