The Here After

We, the human race living on this earth, are under the perception that we belong here and that this is our residence. We don’t want to know the fact that we are on a train. And the train is going through stations to another final destination. And that this world is only one of these stops on one of these stations. But we do not belong here.

We have a ticket that has three slips: we live in the womb for nine months and then when we’re born a slip is torn off. And then we live in dunya for awhile and when we die, the second slip from the ticket is torn out. Then we have one slip left. And that will be torn off in either hell or heaven. And that is the final destination.

We don’t belong here. We are travelling. That is why the Prophet Sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said “Be in this world as if you are a traveller.” And he said that the example or the analogy of me in this dunya is as if somebody is travelling in the desert and he saw a tree and he took some shade under this tree and then took some rest. And then he continued travelling. That is dunya: we spend a few moments under this tree, and then we keep on travelling.

Can you stop time? The movement of time is an erosion of our existence in this dunya. It is taking part of us with every second passing. We need to believe in the fact that we don’t belong here. We need to prepare for death. And that is what this series is about: The Journey towards the Hereafter.