Pack your bags wisely O traveler

In search of lust and desires we live for our hearts clinging to our desires like a thread that’s been stripped of its threading. Our lives revolve around the boxes that sit in our living rooms. These boxes giving stories and tales of the wicked being fed to the innocent hearts of our children taking the place of the Quran in our house holds. Have we lost our minds or was it just our heart that we have given or is it now both? O beautiful slave of Allah (Swt) let us save ourselves now. We were created to worship and the perfection of this world will remain in the world. What do we strive for? is it the success of the luxuries of this life? Have we forgotten O beautiful created soul that we are but travelers in this life?

"Be in this world as though you were a stranger or a traveler/wayfarer."

These are the words of the beautiful Prophet Muhammad (Saw) the same prophet the media we seek our entertainment from has bashed. O slave of Allah (Swt) what guarantee do you hold over your oxygen? What enjoyment are we seeking? We travel together and our journey may differ but our end is one. Our end is dust, gravel and soil of this earth. What is it that we seek from this world that will pleasure us forever?

“And the worldly life is not but amusement and diversion but the home of Hereafter is best for those who fear Allah. Will you not then reason?” (Quran 6:32)

Our choices are clear and our destinations are given so choose the path that you want to end with. Do not expect to breathe forever for the air we breathe belongs to the most powerful. 'Umar, radiyallahu 'an said:

"When evening comes, do not expect (to live till) morning, and when morning comes, do not expect (to live till) evening."


We will not be spared and truly we are not immortal nor can we escape from this stage every living soul shall go through for death is a reality that will be tasted by every living soul just as Allah (Swt) has told us many times in the Quran.

"The Angel of Death, put in charge of you, will (duly) take your souls: then shall you be brought back to your Lord.” (Quran 32:11)

Wherever you are, death will find you out, even if you are towers built up strong and high. (Quran 4:78)


On the day of judgment shall the true worshippers be given what they deserved and strived for and those who rejected is given what they worked and strived for so O slave of Allah (Swt) be careful what you work and strive for. On a day when mothers will throw infants in fear of fate that awaits them and the scream “Myself, Myself” every one will say worrying about themselves.


“The Day that the sky will be like the boiling filth of oil, (or molten copper or silver or lead, etc.).
And the mountains will be like flakes of wool,
And no friend will ask of a friend.”
(Quran 70:7-9)

May we be of those who receive the glad tiding of the truly happy and successful and receive the shade of Allah (Swt) on the day of torment. This life is truly a test for those who believe and we are truly travelers so we must pack our bags with the best of luggage so our end is in the gardens of perpetual bliss. Truly only those who truly believe and strive in the worship of Allah (Swt) will be given the welcoming of paradise.

“But give glad tidings to those who believe and work righteousness, that their portion is Gardens, beneath which rivers flow. Every time they are fed with fruits there from, they say: Why, this is what we were fed with before," for they are given things in similitude; and they have therein companions pure (and holy); and they abide therein (for ever)” (Quran 2:25)