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Allah has said: "Do not forget your share in this world." Koran, Chapter 28 verse 77.
This means that you should set aside a store of good works against the Day of
Reckoning, because all men are travelers who have to perform their journey through a
valley where they stagger and slip, and where at every step lie so many dangers. How I
marvel at those pilgrims en route to the Ka'ba staying at Baghdad and amusing
themselves with wine and sinful objects of extravagance. This will not take them to
Ka'ba, where they want to go, but instead of that, lead to endless suffering and misery.
The fear of Allah is the least store that one should lay up against the Day of Reckoning,
and it is based upon the following:
1. Respecting and following the dictates of Allah
2. Being kind to humanity
Grave consequences would not follow if a king entrusts the office of a minister or that of
an executive officer to an inefficient person, but it would be disastrous if he appoints an
undesirable man to a post relating to judiciary, since an executive job or ministership is
intended to run the affairs of worldly institutions, while on the contrary judiciary is
expected to perform the duties delegated by our Prophet Muhammad, praise and peace
This means that you should set aside a store of good works against the Day of
Reckoning, because all men are travelers who have to perform their journey through a
valley where they stagger and slip, and where at every step lie so many dangers. How I
marvel at those pilgrims en route to the Ka'ba staying at Baghdad and amusing
themselves with wine and sinful objects of extravagance. This will not take them to
Ka'ba, where they want to go, but instead of that, lead to endless suffering and misery.
The fear of Allah is the least store that one should lay up against the Day of Reckoning,
and it is based upon the following:
1. Respecting and following the dictates of Allah
2. Being kind to humanity
Grave consequences would not follow if a king entrusts the office of a minister or that of
an executive officer to an inefficient person, but it would be disastrous if he appoints an
undesirable man to a post relating to judiciary, since an executive job or ministership is
intended to run the affairs of worldly institutions, while on the contrary judiciary is
expected to perform the duties delegated by our Prophet Muhammad, praise and peace