2. All praise and thanks be to Allah,
and peace and blessings of Allah be
upon the Messenger of Allah and upon
his family and companions and whoever follows him.
My sister: I disclose to you among the lines of my letters a reminder, I
copy from the shades of the Quran and the spring of Sunnah, a preach
by which you gain the reward, so O my sister, listen…
This worldly life is not eternal, its conditions will not remain the
same, it is as a whole with what is in it and what is over it, and all are
to vanish. And Allah Alone full of Majesty will remain forever.
Remember that you are in a journey where its turning point is death,
its station is the grave and its place of settlement is either Paradise or
Hellfire.
So, consider which to ride?
Would you ride the boat of the obedience and compliance so it drives
you to the best destination {Verily, The Muttaqûn (the pious), will be
in the midst of Gardens and Rivers (Paradise). (54) In a seat of truth
(i.e. Paradise), near the Omnipotent King (Allâh, the One, the AllBlessed, the Most High, the Owner of Majesty and Honour).} [Surat
Al-Qamar 54:54-55].
ٍ ِ ْ ُّ ٍ َ َ ِ ٍ ْ ِ ِ َ ْ َ
ٍ َ َ ٍ َ َ ِ ُ َّ
54 :‫{إِن الْمتَّقني يِف جنَّات و�نَهر ﴿٤٥﴾ يِف مقعد صدق عند ملِيك مقتَدر} القمر‬
Transliteration: Inna almuttaqeena fee jannatin wanaharin (54) Fee
maqAAadisidqin AAinda maleekin muqtadirin
Or would you ride the boat of disobedience and astray so it drives
you to the worst end. {In fierce hot wind and boiling water, (42) And
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3. shadow of black smoke, (43) (That
shadow) neither cool, nor (even)
good,} [Surat Al-Wâqi’ah 56:42-44].
ٍ َ‫ِ ِّ ح‬
ٍ ِ َ َ‫اَّ ٍِ ا‬
ٍ َِ‫يِ مَ ٍ َ م‬
44-42 :‫{ف سُوم وحيم ﴿٢٤﴾ وظل من يموم ﴿٣٤﴾ ل بَارد ول كرمي} الواقعة‬
ٍّ َ
َ
ُْ
Transliteration: Fee samoomin wahameemin (42) Wathillin min
yahmoomin (43) La baridin wala kareemin
So my sister, consider what will you ride!
The journey is short and its boats are obvious in front of you as the
clearness of the sun in the center of the clear sky.
My sister, how long will you live in this worldly life? Sixty years, eighty
years, a hundred years, a thousand years and then what? Afterwards,
there is death and then resurrection to the gardens of delight or to the
Hellfire.
Be sure, with an absolute Truth with certainty that as the Angel of
death has surpassed you to other than you, He is in the way for you!
Know that whatever life extended and lasted long, its fate is to vanish.
It is only some years, days or moments and you will become lonely,
alone without lovers, fortunes or companions.
Imagine yourself and that death has already come to you and that the
Angel of death has come and pulled your soul from your feet!
Remember the darkness and loneliness of the grave, its narrowness and
desolation, its terror of entryway and its evil death! Ah, what a home
that gathered the sundries and the opposites. It is either everlasting
delights or boiling fluids. There is no difference between the mean and
the noble when entering it, the lofty or the newly born, the preacher
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4. or the dumb, the king or the slave,
from the poor or the rich.
Remember the looks of the Two Angles while they make you sit
down and ask you. Remember how your body looks after death. Your
limbs are cut apart, your bones are crumbled, your body is frayed and
you have become the foodstuff for earthworms.
Then the Trumpet will be blown. It is the cry of being displayed before
Allah for judgment; you hear the sound, and your heart goes crazy,
your hair turns gray, you come out dusty, barefoot and naked where
the earth has been shaken, and the mountains have been powdered to
dust, the eyes have been staring in horror, the (written) pages (of deeds
(good and bad) of every person) have been laid open, the fearful has
become anxious, how many hag says Oh how old I am! How many
old women say Oh what a failure! And how many young woman
shouts Oh where is my youth!
Hellfire has come out so it burned, hellfire has breathed in anger so it
tore up limbs, hearts are cut and dispersed, the eyes have turned into
liquids, necks are bent, colors have faded away and the ordeals have
come in succession.
Remember your disgrace on this day, your isolation with your fear and
grief, your worries, anguish and sins. And all voices will be humbled
for the Most Gracious (Allah), and nothing shall you hear but the
low voice of their footsteps. The hearts are filled with horror, the
day when every nursing mother will forget her nursling, and every
pregnant one will drop her load and you at that time will disavow
your sons, your mother, your father, your husband and your brother.
Remember these situations and terrors where one forgets every dear
and beloved.
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5. Remember the day when the
scales of justice are placed and the
(written) pages (of deeds (good and bad)
of every person) are being laid open, how many sins and defects there
are in your book of deeds.
Remember the day when you are told to cross the Path.
Remember the day when Allah will make you confess your sins and
there is no translator between you and Him! What will be your answer
or how will you apologize?
My sister: call yourself to account before you are brought to account
for your deeds; and assimilate your sins before they become as regrets
for you on the Day of Resurrection. {O you who believe! Fear Allâh
and keep your duty to Him. And let every person look to what he has
sent forth for the morrow,} [Surat Al-Hashr 59:18].
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18 :‫{يَا أَ�يُّها الَّذين آمنُوا ا�تَّقوا اللَّـهَ ولْتَنظُْر �نَفس ما قَ َّمت لِغَد وا�تَّقوا اللَّـهَ إِن اللَّـهَ خبِ ٌ مِبَا �تَعملُون} احلشر‬
َ َ ْ ‫َ ري‬
ُ َ ٍ ْ َ ‫ْ ٌ َّ د‬
ُ َ َِ َ
َ
Transliteration: Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo ittaqoo Allaha
waltanthur nafsun ma qaddamat lighadin waittaqoo Allaha inna Allaha
khabeerun bima taAAmaloona
Tawbah ibn As-Sammah, was one from those who call themselves
to account for their deeds. One day he contemplated about his age
and found that he was sixty years old, then he counted the days of the
sixty years and found that they were twenty one thousand and five
hundred days; so he yelled and said: “Oh woe to me! Do I meet my
Lord with twenty-one thousand sins? How could I do that and in
every day there are thousands of sins?”
My sister beware of disobedience to Allah as it is a trouble in the living,
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6. anxiety in the soul, a deficiency in
sustenance, destructive to the age,
hardship in the living and sadness in the
heart.
Miserable are the sinners. They have obeyed the devil and disobeyed
The Merciful. Their woes have taken place; their sins have become
huge; their defects have become colossal and their sins have been
counted in the Book of Deeds. Miserable are the sinners. They have
disobeyed The Ever-Compeller in the night and day; they have
occupied their hearts for the torment in Hellfire and have blackened
their pages by sins and offenses.
Miserable are the sinners. They have neglected the obedience and lost
themselves before the Day of Resurrection!
My Muslim sister: spend your living moments in obedience and free
your neck from the consequence of regret {(Remember) the Day
when every person will come up pleading for himself, and everyone
will be paid in full for what he did (good or evil, belief or disbelief in
the life of this world) and they will not be dealt with unjustly} [Surat
An-Nahl 16:111].
ِ
ِ
ِ
111 :‫{�يَوم تَأْيِت كل �نَفس تَادل عن �نَّفسها و�تُوف كل �نَفس ما عملَت وهم الَ يُظْلَمون} النحل‬
َ ُ
َْ
ْ ُ َ ْ َ َّ ٍ ْ ُّ ُ َّ‫ُ ُّ ْ ٍ جُ ُ َ ْ َ َ َ ى‬
Transliteration: Yawma tatee kullu nafsin tujadilu AAan nafsiha
watuwaffa kullu nafsin maAAamilat wahum la yuthlamoona
It is the day when you look at you right to see only what you have
sent before you and look at your left to you see only what you have
sent before you... Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: I
heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him, as saying: “The people would be assembled on the Day of
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7. Resurrection barefooted, naked
and uncircumcised”. I said: O
Messenger of Allah, will the male and
the female be together on the Day and would they be looking at one
another? She said: he has said: “O Aisha, the matter would be too
serious for them to look to one another”. [Reported by Al-Bukhari
and Muslim].
‫«حيشر الناس يوم القيامة حفاة عراة غرال. قلت: يا رسول اهلل! النساء والرجال مجيعا، ينظر بعضهم إىل بعض؟‬
‫قال صلى اهلل عليه وسلم: يا عائشة! األمر أشد من أن ينظر بعضهم إىل بعض» رواه البخاري ومسلم‬
On this day, the near and the far, the friend and the foe disavow from
you. {And Shaitân (Satan) will say when the matter has been decided:
“Verily, Allâh promised you a promise of truth. And I too promised
you, but I betrayed you. I had no authority over you except that I
called you, and you responded to me. So blame me not, but blame
yourselves} [Surat Ibrâhîm 14:22].
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ٍ
‫{وقَال َّيطَان لَما قُضي الأَْمر إِن اللَّـهَ وعدكم وعد الحَْق ووعدتُّكم فَأَخلَفتُكم وما كان يِل علَْيكم من س ْلطَان‬
ُ ِّ ُ َ َ َ َ َ َ ْ ُ ْ ْ ْ ُ َ َ َ ِّ َ ْ َ ْ ُ َ َ َ َّ ُ ْ َ َّ ُ ْ‫َ َ الش‬
22 :‫إِل أَن دعوتُكم فَاستَجْبتُم يِل �فَل �تَلُومون ولُوموا أَنفسكم} إبراهيم‬
ُ َ ُ ُ َ ِ‫اَّ َ َ ْ ُ ْ ْ َ ْ اَ ُ ي‬
Transliteration: Waqala alshshaytanu lamma qudiya alamru inna Allaha
waAAadakum waAAda alhaqqi wawaAAadtukum faakhlaftukum
wama kana liya AAalaykum min sultanin illa an daAAawtukum
faistajabtum lee falataloomoonee waloomoo anfusakum
On this day {That Day shall a man flee from his brother, (34) And from
his mother and his father, (35) And from his wife and his children. (36)
Everyman that Day will have enough to make him careless of others.}
[Surat ‘Abasa: 34-37].
ِ
ِ ْ ٌ َ ٍ
ِ ِ ِ
ِ ِ ِّ
ِِ ِ
ٍ
}‫{�يَوم يَفر الْم ْرءُ من أَخيه (43) وأُمه وأَبِيه (53) وصاحبَتِه وبَنِيه (63) لِكل امرئ ِّ�نْهم �يَومئِذ شأْن �يُغنِيه‬
ََ
َ ْ ْ ُ ‫ُ ِّ ْ ِ م‬
ْ َ ُّ َ ْ
َ
َ َ
37-34 :‫عبس‬
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8. Transliteration:
Yawma yafirru almaro min
akheehi (34) Waommihi waabeehi (35)
Wasahibatihi wabaneehi (36) Likulli imriin minhum yawmaithin
shanun yughneehi
My sister: you should work for these moments… verily you should
prevent yourself from Hellfire by complying with obedience and
avoiding the prohibitions. The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah
be upon him, has said: “There are two blessings which many people
lose: (They are) health and free time (for doing righteous deeds)”
[Reported by Al-Bukhari].
‫«نعمتان مغبون فيهما كثري من النّاس: الصحة والفراغ» رواه البخاري‬
So do your best –may Allah keep you- to hasten for what saves you
from Hellfire, invest your time and youth in what satisfies Allah and
keep Allah present in your mind in this worldly life so that He preserves
you in this worldly life and the Hereafter
Avoid what angers Allah of the prohibitions and the forbidden; beware
of dissoluteness and of the unveiling of the face, of backbiting and
tale bearing, of arguing and pride, of lying and betrayal and of all the
atrocities and vices.
Be keen on gaining more good by performing righteous deeds,
enjoining Al-Ma’rûf, saying the goodly word, giving charity and alms,
helping the needy, honoring the guest, being merciful to the weak,
invoking Allah Glorified and Exalted, dutifulness to the parents, the
continuation of praise to Allah, approaching to Allah by observing the
confirmed and the optional acts of worship, reading the Quran. Be
keen in observing the duties and obligations; the most important of
which is the prayer as it is the pillar of the religion and its basic corner.
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9. Adhere to the modesty and dignity,
covering and veiling, chastity and
shyness and obedience to your husband
in Al-Ma’rûf (i.e. Islâmic Monotheism and all that Islâm orders one
to do).
Those were advising words which I have collected for you as a reminder
and enlightenment. The best thing I conclude this essay with is a
comprehensive recommendation from the Messenger of Allah (peace
and blessings of Allah be upon him) “if the woman prayed her five
(prayers), fasted her month (of Ramadan), preserved her vulva (been
faithful to her husband) and obeyed her husband, it is said to her: enter
paradise from any door you like.” [Authenticated by Al-Albani].
‫«إذا صلت املرأة مخسها، و صامت شهرها، و حصنت فرجها، وأطاعت زوجها، قيل هلا: ادخلي اجلنة من أي‬
‫أبواب اجلنة شئت» صححه األلباين‬
Peace and blessings of Allah be upon Muhammad and upon his family
and companions.
Ibn Khuzaymah house
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