Be In This World As If You Are A Stranger Or A Traveller
“If you survive till the evening, do not expect to live till the morning, and if you survive till the morning do not expect to live till the evening …” AND TAKE (ADVANTAGE) FROM YOUR HEALTH BEFORE YOUR SICKNESS AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR LIFE BEFORE YOUR DEATH DO EVERY POSSIBLE GOOD DEED YOU CAN BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. “Stranger” is a term that is well-known – it is a person who is not from the land which he is visiting. And he desires to return to his own land. He is not comfortable in this strange place, and he does not wish to settle there – he awaits the time he can return to his own country. So likewise, a believer in this world is a stranger because this world is not his land. He aims to go to his land and his abode in the Hereafter because that is his real home, everlasting. So, therefore, he is in this world just like a stranger visiting a foreign land. As for an unbeliever, his abode is this world because he has no home in the Jannah of the Hereafter. So, for this reason, ...