A Breath out of a Lifetime and the Mercy of Allah
If we were to compare the time we have in this Dunya (this worldly life) to the Akhira (the hereafter), it is like comparing the time it takes for one breath out of your entire lifetime. If the average human breathes about 20,000 breaths a day….thats 600 million in an average lifetime of 80 years.
Imagine if someone said to you I will give you a choice of living your life as you please and I will give you $1, or you can pray and live your life righteously and I will give your $600 million. SubhanAllah If it was about money, we all know what the choice would be. But Jannah is something worth a billion times more than all the wealth in the world….it’s priceless….yet many of us are not willing to make the small sacrifices to earn it.
When you deeply reflect on this, the time we have in the Dunya is so fleeting and incredibly insignificant, it is beyond belief that we would do anything detrimental during this one breath to sacrifice a lifetime of eternal happiness. Yet we are all have egos and desires that make us sinners in some way or another…bizarrely risking jeopardising an eternity of bliss for the joys of a breath.
Alhamdulillah thankfully Allah is the most merciful of merciful….beyond anything we can comprehend. Not only has He made us Muslim…..eventually guaranteeing us Jannah – eternal happiness – InshaAllah, He has allocated us 10 rewards for each good deed and 1 sin for each bad deed.
That basically means the pass mark for our exam is 10%! Not only that, it is an open book exam (Quran) with all the answers provided, and a teacher to instruct us how to answer (the Prophet Muhammad – saws).
Who sets an exam with such conditions, but one who wants everyone to pass! This is the majesty, grace and mercy of Allah.
We really have no excuses and in these blessed days of Ramadan, the days of Allah’s mercy, forgiveness and being saved from hell fire; we should really be so thankful for the blessing of just being Muslim.
Our deen is not hard but we choose to complicate our lives. Put simply if we made sure we never miss our prayers, do our best to eliminate from our lives what is Haram (forbidden) and make sure we never harm others (as they will have rights over us)….we really don’t need to do more than that (besides fasting, giving charity and performing haj if we can). Anything else we do is an added bonus.
Allah is so incredibly merciful and loves us so much…if only we could comprehend.
May Allah make us of those InshaAllah who will successfully spend our breath for a reward of never ending total bliss in Jannah ya Rabb.
Ramadan 