is a field to cultivate for the Hereafter. Their "world" holds great value. Conversely, even a heedless person’s prayer, performed for show or recognition, is considered worldly.

For the wise believer, eating, drinking, sleeping, waking, and even their life and death are part of their faith, as these actions are in accordance with the Sunnah of the Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. A Muslim should perform these actions with the intention of following the Sunnah.

There is a distinction between حَیاۃُ الدُّنْیا  (worldly life),  حیٰوۃٌ فِی الدُّنْیا (life in this world) and حَیاۃٌ لِّلدُّنیا  (life for the world).

A life spent in the world but dedicated to the Hereafter, not the world itself, is indeed a blessed life.^[1]

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                     صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Where Are those resplendent faces?

During his sermons, the first Caliph, Sayyidunā Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq رَضِىَ اللّٰهُ عَـنْهُ, would awaken the youth from their slumber of heedlessness by making them aware of the fleeting nature of this world, its betrayals, and the darkness of the grave. To encourage preparation for the grave and the Hereafter, he would say:

"Where are those with beautiful faces? Where are those who boasted about their youth? Where have the kings gone who built grand cities and fortified them with strong castles? Where are those who dominated the battlefields? Indeed, time has humiliated them, and now they lie in the darkness of their