FROM THE SPIRITUAL TREE

returns to the West from its eastern position. All creatures big and small return to their destinations. This same scenario on a much larger scale will be reenacted after the first call of the Day of Judgement. Everything will leave its temporary abode and return to its permanent abode. Every night, a God-conscious person envisages this scenario of the Day of Judgement. Retiring to bed will appear symbolically as sleeping in one’s grave. The silence of every home at night will appear like the silence of the graveyard. Now, we can understand the following dua of the Prophet: Oh Lord! We have come to the evening in Your refuge, and we see the morning in Your refuge, and we live with Your Name and we die with Your Name, and we will return unto You. After the night when the new morning dawns it has the likeness of the second call of the Day of Judgement. Every morning people awake from their slumber and start with their worldly pursuits. Some run towards their businesses; some are hurrying for their family. Others are scurrying after wealth and some running after political power. On the Day of Judgement when mankind is raised from their graves, there will be a similar scenario. Only, all will be running towards the assembly before God. Every morning is an illustration of the scenario of the second call of the Day of Judgement. When a believer wakes up in the morning and stands before God in prayer, he feels like he is standing before God with the record of his deeds. He glorifies God, praising Him and asking for His forgiveness. Now, we can understand the following dua of the Prophet: All praise is for God, who gave us life after having taken it from us, unto Him is the resurrection. In this world, the system of day and night created by God is a lesson for us to understand the Hereafter. Here, every day we witness life and death. In the Hereafter we will live forever. Every evening therefore is an illustration of the scenario after the first call of the Day of Judgement. Every morning is an illustration of the scenario of the second call of the Day of Judgement. o