*   We have no time to learn.

*   If there is anything we do not have time for, it is to prepare for our grave and the Hereafter.

Besides this, we have all the time in the world to do anything related to this world. If only we were fortunate enough to contemplate our Hereafter! If only we were able to practically take the Messenger of Allāh صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم as our role model and implement his blessed biography in our lives. If only we too were granted the ability to worship Allāh Almighty in a manner befitting Him!

The most important task in the world

The renowned Sufi scholar, Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmi رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه says:

“Tell me! If a king sends you for a specific task, but on the way, you instead become engrossed with many other things to the point you forget the specific task he sent you for, will the king be pleased? Not at all.

For this reason, if man were to forget every task or work of this world, then let him, but there is one specific task he must never forget. What is this one thing he should never forget, you may ask? The answer to this is mentioned in Juzˈ 22, Sūrah Aḥzāb:^[1]

اِنَّا عَرَضۡنَا الۡاَمَانَۃَ عَلَی السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الۡاَرۡضِ وَ الۡجِبَالِ فَاَبَیۡنَ اَنۡ یَّحۡمِلۡنَہَا وَ اَشۡفَقۡنَ مِنۡہَا وَ حَمَلَہَا الۡاِنۡسَانُ ؕ

[Translation from Kanz al-Īmān:] ‘We indeed offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to bear it and became afraid of it, and man bore it.’^[2]