live each day as if it could be our last.striving to make the most of the time we have been granted. Weep for yourself, before you are wept for. Compel yourself to perform acts of obedience, before you are carried on people's necks. Hold yourself accountable, before you are held accountable. They are only a few moments during which you hold yourself accountable, but are far better than days that are lost for which you will be recompensed.

-Silent moments

I felt this?.

“I’m embarrassed of my Lord if an entire day goes by without me opening the book of my Rabb”
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Mālik b. Dīnār said,

❝If the dunyā consisted of temporary gold, and the Hereafter of eternal sand, then a smart person should choose the eternal sand and ignore the temporary gold!”

I say: ‘Well, then how difficult can our choice really be, when we know that the dunyā consists of temporary sand and the Hereafter consists of eternal gold?’❞

(al-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān: 20/22)

Worse than the sin itself…

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله:

• “The small amount of shyness that you have from the one on your right and the one on your left (i.e. scribes) while you’re committing a sin is greater than the sin (itself).

• And your laughing while you don’t know what Allāh will do with you is greater than the sin (itself).

• And your happiness with sin when you commit it, is greater than the sin (itself).

• And your sadness over the sin when it (the chance to commit sin) passes you, is greater than the sin (itself).
• And your fear of the wind when it moves the door which veils you when you’re committing the sin; but your heart isn’t disturbed (by the fact) that Allāh sees you is greater than the sin (itself) and woe to the devils!.”

[al-Jawab al-Kafi by Ibn al-Qayyim]

Mutarrif said:

“People destroy their happiness for the happiness of others; so seek happiness in something where there’s no death.”

Source: Zuhd al-Kabir by al-Bayhaqi (p. 318)

Looking up at the vast expanse of the sky, my heart whispers softly, "Allāh is above the seven heavens, watching and hearing."
A profound realization settles within me - my meeting with Him is still pending, and the temporal nature of this world and my limited time on it are a stark reminder. In the end, only my deeds will accompany me as I journey to meet my Creator. Oh Allāh, how can I stand before You with all my sins and shortcomings weighing heavy on my heart? Oh Allāh, how daunting it is to ponder standing before You, laden with sins and shortcomings..?

Death has no age. You may sleep tonight and not see tomorrow. People are praying fajr and not making it to Dhuhr. Stay close to Allāh because soon enough you will return to Him. (way__to_allah IG)

Reflect and Repent