FOREWORD
Develop Passion for Paradise!
One of the calamities of this day and age is that Muslims
have started considering this worldly life as a Paradise
and have lost the passion to earn the Paradise in the
Hereafter. Majority of us have started focusing on gaining
the pleasures of this world, even if it comes by bypassing
the laws of shariah (Islamic code of life). The result of this
attitude is that not only that we are losing the Hereafter
but we have also lost the honour of this world.
Allah says,
َأ ُ
ا �
ُض ر ْ ع َ ٍة ن َّ ج َ و َ ك
ُ ب ِّ ر َّ ن م ّ ِ ة ٍ ر َ ف ِ غ ْ م َ ل َ إ ِ وا ْ ع ُ ار ِ س َ و َ
� َن ي ق ِ ت َّ ل ُ ل ِ ت ْ د َّ ع ِ أ ض ُ ر ْ ال و َ ات
او م َ الس
ْ َ َّ َّض َ َّ َّ ف َ ُ ُ َن
َ َن َ ْ َ َ ْ َ ْ َ
و اء الس � ي ِ ون ق نف ِ ي � ي ذ ِ ال ﴾﴿
اس
الن ن ِ ع � ي َ اف ِ ع ال و ظ ي َ غ ال � ي م ِ ظ ِ ك ال و اء �ال
ُ َ َ ْ ُ َ ُ ْ ْ ُ َ َ ْ ً َ َ ْ ُ َ َ َ َن َّ
و َ
ْ ب ُّ � ِ ُ ي هللا
وا ر ك ذ م س ف ن أ وا ل ظ و أ ة ش اح ِ ف وا ل ع ف ا ذ إ ِ � ي ذ ِ ال و ﴾﴿ � َن ي ن ِ س ِ ح ْ ال
ْ ُّ ُ ْ َ َ ُ َّ َ ُ ُّ ُ ْ َ َ َ ْ ُ ُ ْ ُ َ ْ َ ْ َ
ْ ُ
ه ْ و َ وا ل ع َ ف ا م َ ل ع َ وا ص
ي ل و هللا ال إ ِ وب ن الذ ر ف ِ غ ي ن م و م �و
ب ِ ن ذ ل ِ وا ُ ر ف غ ت اس ف هللا
َ
ار ُ � َ ن ال ا � َ ت ِ � ْ ن م ِ ي ر ِ � ْ ج ات ن ج َ و َ م ْ � ِ ّب ِ ر َّ ن م ّ ِ ة ر َ ف ِ غ م َّ ه آؤ ز َ ج َ ك ـئ ِ ل و ْ أ ﴾﴿ ون ل ُ ع ْ ي َ
﴾﴿ � َن ي ل ِ ام ِ ع َ ال ر ُ ج ْ أ م َ ع ْ ن ِ و َ ا � َ ي ف ِ � َن ي د ِ ل ِ ا خ َ
“Race with one another towards forgiveness from your Lord
and towards a Paradise the width of which spans the heavens
and the earth. It has been prepared for the God-fearing
- the ones who spend (for Allah’s sake) in prosperity and
adversity, and those who control anger and forgive people.
And Allah loves those who are good in their deeds, and those
who, when they happen to commit a shameful act or wrong
themselves, remember Allah, then, seek forgiveness for their
sins, and who is there to forgive sins except Allah? And do
not persist in what they have done, knowingly. Their reward
is forgiveness from their Lord and gardens beneath which
rivers flow where they shall live forever. And excellent is the
reward of those who work.” (3:133-136)
Quran and hadith (prophetic narration) are filled with the
ways that we must adhere to that can earn us the Paradise.
But we listen to them and ignore them. The above
mentioned verse of the Quran highlights a few ways of
earning the Paradise, like spending in the path of Allah ,
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