The third question will be about your money. You will be asked two questions about your money: how did you gain it and how did you spend it? You will be questioned about every dollar that you spent and every dollar that you earned. Therefore, suffering poverty your whole life is better than suffering for one dollar on the Day of Judgment. To be questioned means you will be punished. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “Anybody whose account (record) is questioned will surely be punished.” [Bukhaari, 8/76/543] This is also one of the reasons why the poor enter into Jannah before the rich. Even though there could be a rich man who could be better in level and rank than a poor person; we are talking about the timing of entering into Jannah. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, the poor of the muhajireen will enter into jannah 500 years before the rich. The hadith mentions that they will go the gates of jannah and the angels will ask, How did you get here? Weren’t you held accountable? These fuqaraa` (poor men) will say, What will we be held accountable for? We don’t have any money and we were carrying our swords in the sake of Allah. At the same time, there could be many rich people who could have a higher rank than many of the poor – for example, ‘AbdurRahmaan ibn ‘Auf. Money is a very dangerous tool. It can be used to open the doors of jannah for you, and it can go to the extreme other opposite, and that is in the lower ranks of hell fire. We have to give money the attention it deserves: how we earn it and how we spend it. Finally, the last question will be: How did you use your body? Allah gave you the strength. You are not the inventor of your power; Allah gave you your body as a trust. Did you put your strong body to use or did you consume that body in the sake of Allah and optimize it to the extreme? This is a ni’mah, blessing, from Allah, and we will be asked of how we used it.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:01:17 +0000
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