Hadith 82

in the dwellings of the ones who were of longer life spans than yours, and clearer of impacts, and more numerous than you in numbers, and stronger than you in armies, and severer than you in stubbornness? They were in servitude to the world, i. e. they were enslaved (to the world), and they preferred it, i. e. more than anything else, then they had to leave it belittled. Is it this you are preferring, or are being greedy upon this, or are reassured to it? Allah-azwj Says: One who wanted the life of the world and its adornments, We shall Fulfil their deeds therein and they would not be devalued [11: 15] They are those, there wouldn’t be for them in the Hereafter except the Fire, and it would be Confiscated whatever they had been doing in it, and it would be invalidated whatever they had been working [11: 16]. It is an evil house for the one not being watchful of it and does not happen to be upon fear from it. And know, and you are knowing you will be leaving it, there being no escape, and rather it is like what Allah-azwj has Described: a play, and an amusement, and an adornment, and your priding between yourselves regarding the wealth and the children [57: 20]. Take preaching in it with the ones who had built a monument in every height in vain, and they had taken fortresses perhaps they could be living eternally, and (take preaching) with the ones who had said, ‘Who is stronger than us in strength? ’ and take preaching with the ones from your brethren who you have seen been taken to their graves and they were not invited as riders are and lodged, nor were they invited as guests. And houses have been made for them from the graves, and shroud from the soil, and neighbours from the mortal remains. They are neighbour neither answering a caller nor defending against an aggressor, nor are they visiting nor are being visited. They are lenient whose rancour has distanced, ignorant whose grudges have gone away. Neither is their evil anticipated, nor is their support hoped for, and they are like the ones who did not exist. And like what Allah-azwj Glorious Said: So, these are their dwellings. There have not been lived in from after them except a little (while); and We were the Inheritors [28: 58]. They were replaced with the exterior of the earth for its interior, and with the expanse for the narrowness, and with the people for estrangement, and with the light for the darkness. They came to it like what they separated from it, barefoot, naked. They moved away from it with their deeds to the permanent life and to the eternality, forever. Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted Says: Just as We Began the first creation, We will Repeat it, being a Promise upon Us. We will certainly be Doing it! [21: 104]’’. [98]