Thursday, December 9, 2010

2.40. THE DAY OF ACCOUNTABILITY (to be continued)




God says

“….and on that Day you will most surely be called to account for [what you did with] the boon of life!”
-- Q.102:8

Prophet said

“Call yourselves to account before you are called to account, and weigh up your deeds before they are weighed for you” -- Hadith quoted by Tirmizi.

Best time to do this is in the night just before sleep: going over day’s actions, repenting and begging forgiveness for the wrongs committed. God is much forgiving, most gracious!


What you simply know of right and wrong is only knowledge, which is like sugar: one cannot know unless one tastes it. Knowledge should lead to belief and belief to action.

Infirm belief in the hereafter tends to make one forget that one will have to give account for whatever one does. Make sure.


“The astute man is one who passes judgment and works for what is after death, and the fool is one who pursues vain pleasures and counts on God the Exalted to realize his wishes” – Hadith quoted by Tirmizi, Ibn Maja and Ibn Hanbal.

Of the 2892 minutes in a weekend it would take barely 10 minutes to go through the Friday Post. Then the whole week to imbibe and shape one’s course! Is that too much to save the Day?