As-Salāmu 'Alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa
barakatuh ,
Umm Habibah bint Abu Sufyan (“ﺭﺿﻲ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ
ﻋﻨﻪ”) narrated that the Messenger of Allah
(''ﺻﻠﻰ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻭﺳﻠﻢ'') said: “Whoever prays
twelve rakat during the day and night will
have a house built for him in Paradise: four
rakat before Zuhr and two after it, two rakat
after Maghrib, two rakat after Isha, and two
rakat before Fajr.” (Hasan Sahih hadith)
[Tirmidhi]
One of the Umayyad Khalifa’s asked Ibn Hazm,
“Why do we fear death?” Ibn Hazm replied,
“Because we hate to go from what we have
built to what we have destroyed.” Whatever
efforts and accumulations we have made are
for this Dunya and it shows in the form of our
properties, businesses, possessions, etc.,
looking very nice. When we try to imagine our
property in the Akhirah we don’t see
anything, or at best, we are uncertain. Thus,
we don’t feel comfortable about going there.
But our death will bring an end to this life and
will take us to the life of that uncertain place
anyway.
So why not invest in a real estate project for
the Hereafter? A person’s heart is where their
wealth is, e.g. a lady is always conscious of
where her purse is, and if she has to leave it
and go somewhere she tells someone else to
mind it for her. If we send our wealth
forward and do the deeds that earn us riches
for the Hereafter then our hearts will also be
inclined to move on from this temporary
abode. Rasul Allah ('' ﺻﻠﻰ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻭﺳﻠﻢ'') told
us that whoever prays these 12 rakat of
Sunnah, gets a beautiful mansion made for
him or her in Jannah.
Let’s get on with it inshaAllah.