Inhabitants of the Graves

Peace be upon you my friends. Just felt like sharing something which i got from an email from a fellow pilgrim..

" Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,

We Muslims nowadays are so attached to the world that we sometimes forget our ultimate destiny. I thus have included 2 hadith below which I hope to remind both myself and everyone reading it. I obtained them from a classical book written by the most noble scholar, Imam al-Haddad. The book is translated as “The Lives of Men” and it is a powerful reminder of our ultimate goal and destiny.

Hadith 1: “Be in the world as though a stranger or a wayfarer, and consider yourself one of the inhabitants of the graves”.

Hadith 2: “What have I to do with the world? The likeness of myself and the world is that of a rider travelling on a summer day, who found a tree, rested underneath it awhile, then went on, leaving it behind.”

Reflect on it. May He guide us to Himself. Amin.

Sameer Bin Abdul Jalil "



Ps. Bro Sameer, if you're reading this... Jazakallah :D



Cheers