Dear Islamic brothers! What a beautiful aspect of the Prophetic sīrah this is. The final Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم always remembered death, even though divine revelation informed him he would not pass away until religion was completed.

This approach of his contains a lesson for us. The final Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم is the owner of Paradise. Due to his intercession on the Day of Judgement, his nation will enter Paradise. Allah promised him the rank of maqām al-maḥmūd. Before the Prophet’s passing, Allah gave him the choice of staying in the world or not. The prophets عَـلَـيْهِمُ السَّلَام only experience death for a moment. By the will of Allah, the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم is alive in his grave with worldly life.

We have no knowledge about the time of our death and whether our faith will be intact at that time. We do not know if our graves will be a garden of Paradise or a pit from Hell. We are not sure if we will receive Allah’s mercy or the Prophet’s intercession on the Day of Judgement, and we have no certainty of crossing the Bridge of Ṣirāṭ successfully. Despite these crucial factors which determine our eternal abode, we are heedless about death.

3 strange people

The Companion Sayyidunā Salmān al-Fārisī رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُ said:

Three types of people astonish me, and I laugh when I think about them.

First is he who has great plans and aspirations, even though death is searching for him.

Second is he who is heedless himself, yet he is not forgotten. (This means, despite us becoming heedless, we are not disregarded. We are being observed continuously. Allah is aware of all our actions and two angels record all our deeds. Our limbs and the Earth are all being