Make your choice

Aakhirah is eternal and Dunya is temporary. If one loves Dunya, one will harm one's Aakhirah and if one loves one's Aakhirah, then one must accept to make one's Dunya suffer somehow. One should see what things you loose in order to gain certain things. Is it not true that one must lose the temporary to get the permanent? Is it not true that one cannot mortgage one's house for a tent on the beach? Therefore, one must give preference to Aakhirah because it is eternal where we will all have to live forever. No doubt a good Muslim must do this itself. A Muslim must prove to be intelligent and he cannot make a bad choice especially when there is no confusion in choosing what is good. One must know how to remove anything that becomes a barrier between oneself and one's Aakhirah, so that one's Aakhirah does not suffer and one may become victorious. This is true success. Any success without this success is total loss.

[English version of "Faire ou choix" – Al Jamiat – Vol.5 No.12]