Book Name:Fikr-e-Akhirat
Dear Islamic brothers! Remember! Where ignorance brings about lots of problems and troubles, it also takes a person far away from contemplating the hereafter. The life that has been spent in negligence destroys a person completely. Our pious predecessors رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـه had the mindset that not even one single moment of their life should be spent in negligence. Rather, every single second of their life should be spent in good deeds and doing acts for the pleasure of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ. As well as living a good life and performing good acts, they would still remain frightened that perhaps their acts may be seen as performed in negligence.
Imam Muhammad Ghazali رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه states: ‘Shaykh Abu ‘Ali Daqqaaq رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه said: ‘I came to enquire after the health of a pious person. I saw that his students were sitting around him and he was crying. I asked, ‘O Shaykh! Are you crying because of departing from this world?’ He replied, ‘No. I’m crying because my Salahs have been missed.’ I then asked, ‘But you are an ardent worshipper. How have you missed your Salahs?’ He replied, ‘My every Sajdah was done in negligence, whenever I raised my head from Sajdah, I did so in negligence and now I am dying in negligence.’ (Mishkat-ul-Masabih, pp. 22)
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Dear Islamic brothers! You have heard that the pious people of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ would spend every moment in the remembrance of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and although they would be busy thinking about the Hereafter all the time, despite all this they would still think that worship performed by them lacks spiritual perfection. They would tremble with Divine fear and would cry. But alas! The condition of the negligent people is that firstly, they do not even perform good deeds and if they have performed an act of good deed, then they remain restless until they make it public. Although the pious people of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ would remain away from sins, but they would always shiver and cry out of the Divine fear. But negligent people, who are busy committing sins day and night fearlessly, are not frightened whatsoever and speak as if no one is