The Tomorrow That is to Come

The Quran (75:20-21) says: “Truly, you love immediate gain and neglect the Hereafter.”

          When someone is born and comes into this world, he sees that here, all around him, there are many different opportunities that he can avail of. He rushes to make use of them, hoping to obtain as much benefit as he can.

This is the biggest mistake, in which almost everyone is engrossed. The opportunities of the present world are not for the purpose of simply gaining mere temporary worldly benefits. Rather, they exist so that they can assist people to engage in virtuous actions that can prove to be of benefit to them in the Hereafter. For instance, if someone has wealth, its true purpose is not to fulfil his sensual desires or to bolster his social status. The proper way for this person to use this wealth is to keep apart enough of it for his needs and then to spend the rest in God’s path, such as for inviting people to God.

This world is temporary, and the world that is to come after death is eternal. But surprisingly, a person spends his everything to obtain what he regards as progress and comfort in this temporary world alone, completely ignoring the eternal life of the Hereafter. He lives in such a way as if the Hereafter is a mere myth.

Wise is he who lives in awareness of the Hereafter. Foolish is he who is heedless of the Hereafter.