Remember! Anyone who has fallen prey to heedlessness and continues to commit sins has lost his way and has wandered into the darkness of evil. If Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and His Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم are displeased, as a result, he will face the torments of the grave and the punishments of the afterlife. Then remorse and guilt will be useless. You still have a chance, sincerely repent and tread on a life of Sunnah.

Highlighting the significance of youth, the beloved son of A’la Hadrat, Mufti-e-A’zam Hind Maulana Mustafa Raza Khan عَـلَيْهِ رَحْمَةُ الـرَّحْمٰن has composed a couplet in his collection of poems known as ‘Saman-e-Bakhshish’:

رِیاضت کے یہی دن ہیں بُڑھاپے میں کہاں ہمّت

جو کچھ کرنا ہو اب کرلو ابھی نُوریؔ جواں تم ہو

Old-age as a messenger of death

Dear Islamic brothers! As an illness is a messenger of death, old-age also plays the role of a messenger before death. Being heedless of death at any time is like being in the state of sleep and surrounded by enemies but being heedless of death after growing old is like an enemy who attacks him tirelessly and he does nothing in return. Old-age is that last stage which is directly followed by death and this is the age which awakens one from heedlessness and persuades him to do good deeds. But if anybody shows heedlessness in this age as well, then what will happen to that person in the Hereafter. Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ says in the Glorious Quran:

وَ هُمْ یَصْطَرِخُوْنَ فِیْهَاۚ-رَبَّنَاۤ اَخْرِجْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَالِحًا غَیْرَ الَّذِیْ كُنَّا نَعْمَلُؕ-اَوَ لَمْ نُعَمِّرْكُمْ مَّا یَتَذَكَّرُ فِیْهِ مَنْ تَذَكَّرَ وَ جَآءَكُمُ النَّذِیْرُؕ-فَذُوْقُوْا فَمَا لِلظّٰلِمِیْنَ مِنْ نَّصِیْرٍ۠(۳۷)