Gardens of the Righteous — Page 122
122. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS 65. . On Death and Restraint of Desire. Allah, the Exalted, has said: 198. Everyone shall suffer death, and you shall be paid your full recompense on the Day of Judgment. He who is kept away from the Fire and is admitted to Paradise has indeed attained felicity. The life of this world is but illusory enjoyment (3. 186). 199. No person knows what he will earn tomorrow and no person knows in what land he will die (31. 35). 200. When their time arrives they cannot tarry a single hour nor can they go ahead (16. 62). 201. O ye who believe, let not your properties or your children beguile you from the remembrance of Allah. . Whoever behaves in that way, it is they who are the losers. Spend out of that with which We have provided you before death comes upon one of you and he should say:. Lord, why didst Thou not grant me respite for a while, that. I could give alms and be of the righteous? Allah will not grant respite to any when his appointed time has come. . Allah is well aware of that which you do (63. 10-12). 202. When death approaches one of them, he will supplicate: Lord send me back that I may act righteously in the life that I have departed from. That cannot be: it is only an utterance of his. Behind them is a barrier right up to the day when they shall be raised up again. . Did you imagine that We had created you without purpose, and that you would not be brought back to Us (23. 100-116)? 203. Is it not time that the hearts of those who believe should feel humbled at the remembrance of Allah and of that which has come down to them of the truth? Let them not be like those who were given the Book before them and the term of Allah's favour was prolonged for them, so that their hearts were hardened and most of them became disobedient (57. 17). 577: This hadith is the same as No. 474. 578. Abdullah ibn Umar relates that the Holy Prophet said: If a Muslim has something that would entail a testamentary direction he should not let two nights pass without executing a written testament (Bokhari and Muslim). . Muslim specifies three nights. Ibn Umar said: Since I heard the Holy Prophet say this I have not let a night pass without having my will by me.