Let's heal our hearts with the remembrance of...

Sometimes I feel a bit down...and there is nothing better to do than to think about the hereafter when one is feeling down. After all, the hereafter is our real home and this life is only a passing journey, a place of test in order to get back to our real home.

So, just imagine if you're on a journey maybe from London to Malaysia. You're stuck in a plane, a thirteen hours flight with little leg space, the person sitting next to you is snoring loudly with bad breath and the captain makes an announcement that the plane is passing through a bad storm. The plane is moving from side to side, up and down and you feel sick in the stomach...you're feeling down and miserable so, what do you think of? Of course I would think of Allah SWT and make lots of dua but I would also think of home...the moment when the plane lands and I can stretch my legs. I would imagine getting home and lying in my own bed, having a cup of hot chocolate, curling up into a ball and falling fast asleep.

That is the life of this world, just like a challenging plane journey, sometimes miserable and sometimes smooth sailing but the hereafter is our home. No matter how wonderful a plane journey is such as if you're flying first class or a private jet, no one would want to fly on a plane forever...everyone wants to get back home.

So, I'm thinking about the hereafter and what better way to remember the hereafter than to read the Qur'an and hadith related to the matter. The Qur'an describes the hereafter, Jannah and Jahannam beautifully. It describes it with things which we as humans can comprehend and compare and imagine. It speaks about gardens, water, rivers of milk and honey, a river flowing underneath mansions, castles, fruits and sweet spring water. It talks about silver garments and golden cups...all the things that we can relate to...all that we can imagine.

It talks about people, beautiful people in their prime youth and never becoming old, with skin as fair and almost see through and light shining from their foreheads. It talks about fair maidens and boy servants. It talks about lying on a couch with cushions and carpets spread on the floor. It talks about meeting the people we love, our family, our friends, sitting underneath shaded trees and talking about the past, our previous life and how Allah SWT saved us with His Mercy.

It talks about beautiful speech with no ill feelings, no jealousy, no bad mouthing, no heartache, no pain and it talks about the feeling of peace and serenity...everything that we could possible wish for. It is so real, so clear, so imaginable and yet, unimaginable cause it is so much more than our limited mind could possibly comprehend.

Right now, we only have the certainty of knowledge...knowledge of the hereafter but on that day, when the time comes...Allah SWT says that we will have the certainty of sight. We will see it with our own eyes and when that happens, no one can deny anymore. So, imagine and remember now...and let our hearts heal with Allah's Mercy.

سُوۡرَةُ التّکاثُر
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

أَلۡهَٮٰكُمُ ٱلتَّكَاثُرُ (١) حَتَّىٰ زُرۡتُمُ ٱلۡمَقَابِرَ (٢) كَلَّا سَوۡفَ تَعۡلَمُونَ (٣) ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَوۡفَ تَعۡلَمُونَ (٤) كَلَّا لَوۡ تَعۡلَمُونَ عِلۡمَ ٱلۡيَقِينِ (٥) لَتَرَوُنَّ ٱلۡجَحِيمَ (٦) ثُمَّ لَتَرَوُنَّہَا عَيۡنَ ٱلۡيَقِينِ (٧) ثُمَّ لَتُسۡـَٔلُنَّ يَوۡمَٮِٕذٍ عَنِ ٱلنَّعِيمِ (٨

The mutual rivalry (for piling up of worldly things) diverts you, (1) Until you visit the graves (i.e. till you die). (2) Nay! You shall come to know! (3) Again, Nay! You shall come to know! (4) Nay! If you knew with a sure knowledge (the end result of piling up, you would not have been occupied yourselves in worldly things) (5) Verily, You shall see the blazing Fire (Hell)! (6) And again, you shall see it with certainty of sight! (7) Then, on that Day, you shall be asked about the delights[] (you indulged in, in this world)! (8)