As-salaamu alaykum. I don’t think I will write much about the reflections I have had about this experience, as I am not quite sure yet of the conclusion I came to.
The only thing I can say is that Alhamdulillah, I am thankful for today. For others, their chances to please Allah are gone. Khalas, that was it and they are done in this dunya. Allah a3lim whether they (‘they’ meaning all of those who have passed) were successful. We know the Prophets and some Sahabah have been promised Jannah, but as for the rest of us, we don’t know. I think that is what constantly keeps me doing good things fisabilillah, well trying to anyways.
I remember telling a priest that this was one of the faults in Christianity – if everyone is guarunteed the prize at the end of this race we are all in, who will do genuine good deeds in order to gain it except with the intention of praise? SubhanAllah, Allah truely is the Mose Wise and knows His creation as He is the Creator.
I am so, so, so thankful to Allah that I am not in the same place my dear friend was. I realize know I very well could have been, but Allah wrote for me that I am to be saved from that plauge through the grace and ease of Islam. May Allah save us all…
