Praise is due to Allaah
Beloved in Islam
Death is so bitter but little we do remember
We race after worldly benefits.
 - We fear poverty and desire for
collecting this life's ruins as if we are going to have an eternal
life in it.
We fear poverty, but not the reckoning in the
Hereafter.
We fear hunger, but not Allah's reproach and
torment.
Yahya Ibn Mu'adh (radiyallahu anhu), said:
 "O how poor is
man, if he fears Hell in the same degree of his fearing poverty,
then he will enter Paradise."
Al-Hasan Al-Basri said about our ancestors: "I swear by Him in
whose Hand my life is, I lived among people for whom the life
in this world was more contemptible than the earth on which
they used to walk."
A poet said: "We dispraise time though it is not guilty, and
complain of it but in vain. Time is not to blame, this is what we
have committed and we are punished for it. This is Allah's
Decree, and we have to be patient and submit to Him."
Dear brother/sister in Islam,
Day and night are stages through which people pass until they
come to their last journey. If, at any stage, you can send
forward provisions, then do so, because soon the journey will
end and the matter is so urgent.
Prepare the provisions for your
journey, because death may come suddenly.