PREPARING FOR THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT O he who is busy with his dunya! Whom illusions of a long lifetime have deluded Was he not in a state of heedlessness? Until his appointed time drew near? Verily death arrives suddenly And the Grave is the collection-box of actions Be patient over the dunya and its hardships No death is there except at one’s appointed time Do you not see how the two ever-renewables [night and day] Wear us out, while we jest in secret and in public? Trust not this world and its pleasures For its homes are not real homes And work for your benefit before your death And be not deceived by the abundance of friends and brothers. It is an obligation upon people to repent. But leaving sins is even more of an obligation. Patience in the midst of hardships is difficult to bear. But loosing the opportunity for reward is more difficult to bear. Time is indeed perplexing in the way it passes. Yet people’s heedlessness is even more perplexing. Everything that is due to arrive is indeed close, Yet death is closer than everything else. My sins, if I think about them, are many But the mercy of my Lord is much vaster I do not hope for salvation in any good action I may have done Rather in Allah’s mercy is my hope He is Allah my Lord who is my Creator And I am [in front of Him] a slave who obeys and submits If forgiveness is intended for me then that is mercy And if it is other than it then what am I to do? O you who seeks the hand of the dunya in marriage! Know that she has a new lover everyday She takes a husband now, yet gives herself at the same time to an other Elsewhere She only accepts lovers so that she may kill them in her bosom one by one I have been fooled and the affliction is spreading in my body little by little Ready yourself and take provisions for death, for the herald has called: ‘its time to leave, ‘its time to leave! O you who entreats his Lord with all types of speech! And who asks of Him residence in the Land of Speech Who ceaselessly delays repentance year after year? I do not see you being just to your soul amongst all people Had you filled your day with fasting, O heedless one! And stayed awake all night in prayer And diminished your water and food You would have been fit to attain the honour of elevated rank And given the ability to perform great feats by the Lord of creation And secured the greatest pleasure of the Possessor of Majesty and Generosity
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