Life Death and Beyond

The Tomorrow That is to Come you have sown. Yet, strangely, people make big efforts for this present world but completely ignore or forget the next world. In the present life, today’s deficiency can be made up for by additional action tomorrow. But in the next life, no one will have the opportunity to come back to the life before death and make up for one’s negligence. The Tomorrow That is to Come The Quran (75:20-21) says: “Truly, you love immediate gain and neglect the Hereafter.” When someone is born and comes into this world, he sees that here, all around him, there are many different opportunities that he can avail of. He rushes to make use of them, hoping to obtain as much benefit as he can. This is the biggest mistake, in which almost everyone is engrossed. The opportunities of the present world are not for the purpose of simply gaining mere temporary worldly benefits. Rather, they exist so that they can assist people to engage in virtuous actions that can prove to be of benefit to them in the Hereafter. For instance, if someone has wealth, its true purpose is not to fulfil his sensual desires or to bolster his social status. The proper way for this person to use this wealth is to keep apart enough of it for his needs and then to spend the rest in God’s path, such as for inviting people to God. This world is temporary, and the world that is to come after death is eternal. But surprisingly, a person spends his everything to obtain what he regards as progress and comfort