Sooner or Later Everything is to Perish

Death is the end for all of us: the oppressor and the oppressed, the mighty and the feeble, the rich and the poor. Your death is no novelty. Nations before have gone and nations after will perish.

 Ibn Batoota related that in the north, there is a graveyard with one thousand kings buried in it. At the entrance of this graveyard is a sign board that reads:

 "The Kings: ask the dirt about them,
 And about the great leaders; they are all bones now."

 A cause for wonder is the forgetfulness of man and how he remains heedless of death, the menace of which hangs over him day and night. Man deludes himself by thinking that he is immortal on this earth.

 "O Mankind! Fear your Lord and be dutiful to Him! Verily, the earthquake of the Hour (of judgment) is a terrible thing." (Quran 22/1)

 "Draws near for mankind their reckoning, while they turn away in heedlessness." (Quran 21/1)
 When Allah destroyed a nation and wiped out a transgressing people, He said:

 "Can you find a single one of them or hear even a whisper of them?" (Quran 19/98)

 All traces of them are gone.

By: Shaikh Aa'id Abdullah al-Qarnee
Source: islaam.com

The Hadith of the day

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:

Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "A dinar you spend in Allah's way, or to free a slave, or as a charity you give to a needy person, or to support your family, the one yielding the greatest reward is that which you spend on your family".

[Muslim].


Commentary: A Muslim is ordained to spend first of all on the need of his wife and children and their food and clothes. There is greater reward for him in this because these expenses are obligatory on him while spending on other items is in the nature of Nawafil. Obviously, one cannot forego the former for the latter.
   Riyad-us-Saliheen (289)