Life Is a Journey

Your Life is a journey

You’re on a journey. The journey is life. The destination is Paradise or Hell. The path you take on your journey will determine your destination. The length of your journey is not fixed; it will vary for each individual with some arriving at their destination in their youth whereas other will reach old age before they arrive. Yet one thing for certain is that everyone WILL arrive at their destination.


The Prophet ﷺ said:

”What have I got to do with the material world. The example of the material world and I is that of a traveller.
Travelling in the afternoon heat, he stopped to rest under the shade of a tree for some moments. Then, he rose and left it.”
(Ahmad, Tirmidhi. The hadith is Hasan)

Ibn Umar narrates: one day I was with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, He then turned to me, held my shoulders with both of his blessed hands, and said:

“Be in this life like a stranger or a traveller.”

And whenever Ibn Umar narrated this to his students he would add:

“If you reach the evening, do not await (to be alive) by dawn, And if you reach dawn, do not await (to be alive) by evening. Take advantage of your Health before you fall sick. And take advantage of your life, before you die” (Bukhari)

Every day that goes by, you get nearer to your destination. Some people have understood – spending every minute preparing with the best of provisions. However many are ignorant and heedless and take with them only that which will burden them.


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