(Explanation that the purpose of creating the servant is to worship Allah alone, and explanation of seizing the opportunity for righteous deeds in this world) And by Allah, you did not come out into this world for the *** of its life
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The Shaykh : He says, he says Ibn al-Qayyim:
"And by Allah, you did not come out into this world for the *** of its life or for the perishing debris"
Correct, we did not come out to live in this world as the animals live, eating and drinking and sleeping only, but we came out to prepare the provision for the hereafter, as Allah the Exalted said:[Adh-Dhariyat 51:56], and He the Exalted said: [Al-Mu'minun 23:115-116] It is too great for Him to create us in vain without our returning to Him. [Al-Inshiqaq 84:6]. We will stand before Allah Mighty and Majestic to meet Him, and He will judge us, then we will be given our books in our right hands or in our left hands - we ask Allah to make our book in the right hand -.
He says: "But you came out to prepare the provision for the *** hereafter, so you brought the ugliest of losses
You neglected gathering the provision until it passed".
Correct, which provision did he neglect? The provision of the hereafter, he neglected gathering it, and gathering the provision of the hereafter is through righteous deeds, they are the provision of the hereafter, until it passed.
"But *** passed the one that distracted you from this matter" Allah is the Greatest! So he lost two provisions: the provision of the hereafter, and the provision that distracted him from the provision of the hereafter. What distracted him from this provision? The world and its pleasures passed, the world now does not pass a minute and return, it all passes, minutes and moments and if you are on the brink of the well you have ended, but the pleasure of the hereafter increases and remains and does not perish forever[Hud 11:108] it does not cease forever. How do we prefer the perishing over the eternal? By Allah, it is ignorance from us, O brothers, ignorance and heedlessness and negligence, how do we prefer the world over the hereafter? While we feel it, we see it go and not return, it passes, so if we do not make up for our lives with righteous deeds, we will lose both the world and the hereafter. [Az-Zumar 39:15].
Therefore, Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him and forgive him and reward us well for him) said:
"You neglected gathering the provision until it passed, but *** passed the one that distracted you from this matter" What distracted from this matter? The world.
"And by Allah, you did not come out into this world for the *** of its life or for the perishing debris"
Correct, we did not come out to live in this world as the animals live, eating and drinking and sleeping only, but we came out to prepare the provision for the hereafter, as Allah the Exalted said:
And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.
وما خلقت الجن والإنس إلا ليعبدون(115) Then did you think that We created you uselessly and that to Us you would not be returned?" (116) So exalted is Allah, the Sovereign, the Truth; there is no deity except Him, Lord of the Noble Throne.
أفحسبتم أنما خلقناكم عبثا وأنكم إلينا لا ترجعون فتعالى الله الملك الحقO mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and will meet it.
يا أيها الإنسان إنك كادح إلى ربك كدحا فملاقيهHe says: "But you came out to prepare the provision for the *** hereafter, so you brought the ugliest of losses
You neglected gathering the provision until it passed".
Correct, which provision did he neglect? The provision of the hereafter, he neglected gathering it, and gathering the provision of the hereafter is through righteous deeds, they are the provision of the hereafter, until it passed.
"But *** passed the one that distracted you from this matter" Allah is the Greatest! So he lost two provisions: the provision of the hereafter, and the provision that distracted him from the provision of the hereafter. What distracted him from this provision? The world and its pleasures passed, the world now does not pass a minute and return, it all passes, minutes and moments and if you are on the brink of the well you have ended, but the pleasure of the hereafter increases and remains and does not perish forever
abiding therein as long as the heavens and the earth endure, except what your Lord should will - a bestowal uninterrupted.
خالدين فيها ما دامت السماوات والأرض إلا ما شاء ربك عطاء غير مجذوذSay, "Indeed, the losers are the ones who will lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection. Unquestionably, that is the manifest loss."
قل إن الخاسرين الذين خسروا أنفسهم وأهليهم يوم القيامة ألا ذلك هو الخسران المبينTherefore, Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him and forgive him and reward us well for him) said:
"You neglected gathering the provision until it passed, but *** passed the one that distracted you from this matter" What distracted from this matter? The world.