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You will only live in a home after death that you spent your whole life building.

Will it hold you like a warm embrace?

Or will it close in on you with an unforgiving grip?

Will it expand into vast gardens,

or will it tighten until it crushes your soul?

Your grave isn't six feet under.

It's as wide as your deeds and as deep as your devotion.

Will it be your refuge, or will it be your ruin? And Imam Ibn Abidunya, Rahimu'llah said that one of the scholars said,

L'Ibn Idom Beitam, that the son of Adam has two homes, one on the surface of the earth

and one in the belly of the earth. He ends up focusing on the one that's on the surface of the earth.

He adorns it. He decorates it. He makes doors facing the north. He makes doors facing the south.

He prepares it to suit him in his winter and in his summer. And then he ends up neglecting the one

that's in the belly of the earth and he leaves it in ruins. So he says to this man that he sees

putting his house together, this house that you've built above the surface, how long do you expect to

live in it? He said, I don't know. He said, the one that's under the earth, how long do you expect to live in it?

He said, forever. He said, then doesn't it make sense that that's the one you should work on?

Have you built your next home yet?

How well constructed is it?

What furniture have you picked out for it?

How big is it?

It was narrated on the authority of Abdullah Abdullabnu Amr,

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