The Final Journey

These Sleepers! ‘success’. But little do they realize that in the Hereafter they shall be held accountable for their deeds. In contrast, someone who controls this urge and lives in the world in such a way that he becomes a source of mercy for others will find that the doors of Heaven will be opened to him in the Hereafter. We have to root out the evils of callousness and cruelty within ourselves to prove ourselves eligible of entering the gates of paradise. These Sleepers! I n a tradition Prophet Muhammad wondered: “That those who should be running away from hell are sleeping and those who should be striving to attain such a precious thing as Paradise are sleeping.” (Sunan al-Tirmidhi, Hadith No. 2601) The punishment of Hell will be terrifying, yet man remains oblivious of this. The blessings of Paradise will be utterly delightful, yet man does not show any interest in them. This, without doubt, is the strangest thing in the world. People are fast asleep, only to wake up when the sparks flying out of the fires of Hell make further sleep impossible. People are oblivious of what is going to happen on the Day of Judgment, only to be shaken awake when devastation will strike them, and they cannot escape from it. Everyone seems to be unconscious. Every person is so completely lost in his own self that it is as if there is no power