November 5, 2024

Surah Al Hijr – Ayah 3

,اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
اَعُوْذُبِااللّٰہِ مِنَ الشَّیْطٰنِ الرَّجِيْم
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

*_Today’s Thought for the day is from Surah Al-Hijr Ayah 3_*

*ذَرۡهُمۡ يَاۡكُلُوۡا وَيَتَمَتَّعُوۡا وَيُلۡهِهِمُ الۡاَمَلُ‌ فَسَوۡفَ يَعۡلَمُوۡنَ‏.(3)*

*_Leave them to eat and enjoy themselves, and let [false] hope divert them. They will come to know.(3)_*

(اے محمد) ان کو اُن کے حال پر رہنے دو کہ کھالیں اور فائدے اُٹھالیں اور (طول) امل ان کو دنیا میں مشغول کئے رہے عنقریب ان کو (اس کا انجام) معلوم ہو جائے گا.(3)

Allah Subhanahu wa taa’la asks the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ to leave alone those disbelievers to eat and enjoy for a while if they don’t pay any heed to his advise.‼️ *The disbelievers are being compared to the animals whose only job is to satisfy their carnal desires as long as they live in this world.* _By immersing themselves in satisfying their desires they get fooled in false hopes of a long life and forgetting the death and accountability of the hereafter._

*_Surely Allah will admit those who believe and do good into Gardens under which rivers flow. As for the disbelievers, they enjoy themselves and feed like cattle. But the Fire will be their home.(Surah Muhammad 47:12)_*

As for eating and drinking, *a believer* does it too, and takes care of economic needs to the measure of necessity, and makes future plans for occupation and business as well. But, a believer would not make all these efforts by *forgetting death* and ignoring the concern for *’Akhirah.* _Therefore, he is careful about everything he does and finds out whether it is Halal or Haram, permissible or forbidden. Then, he does not occupy himself in the making of wasteful or unnecessary plans and projections, as hobby or compulsion._

*_Act of the Day is:_* to understand that prioritising eating and drinking the real occupation and aim of life, and keeping glued to long-drawn material plans while surrounded by countless things of worldly comfort, and becoming totally heedless to death, is something which can be done only by the disbelievers.‼️ *Too much Indulgence in worldly pleasures makes a person heedless and he overlooks the facts of his existence, fate and the certainty of death*. _Man forgets that there is a duty to be fulfilled and a prohibition to be observed. He goes even further so as to forget Allah Azzawajal altogether and forget that he himself is going to die and then be resurrected in order to account for his deeds._

The Prophet ﷺ said Four things are signs of being unfortunate: (1) Not being able to shed tears (that is, not being in tears when ashamed of acts of negligence and sin); (2) and hard heartedness; (3) fanciful hopes and plans for the future; (4) and the greed for worldly things. (Qurtubi)

*_May Allah Subhanahu wa taa’la grant us the ability to make Hereafter our main concern. Aa’meen Ya’Rabbul Aa’lameen._*

JazaK Allâhu khair!