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You've dug your own grave.

Now you lie in it.

Every word, every action, every deed you've done and left undone are the only companions

you've taken with you to the next station.

It's easy to forget how much weight even the smallest things carry.

A word spoken in anger.

A prayer rushed through.

A charity given with the expectation of praise.

While you hope for your good deeds

to save you, what if the deeds you've neglected or corrupted are the very ones holding you back?

What if the only thing standing between you and salvation was something you thought didn't even

matter? thought didn't even matter. If a man robbed a bank but then gave some of that money in charity,

with the smile of the poor person nullifying his initial crime, if you could take your sala and then draw a picture of what your sala looks like,

would your sala be missing limbs or have messy hair or something else be wrong with it?

Remember Tufail ibn Amr, Radiallani,

the man who would lose his head for the sake of Allah only to become a Shahid flying in a bird for his admirable

patience. Tulfaid tells the story that there was a man from his people that initially made

Hijera with him to be in Medina with the Prophet, Sallallu. But this man strongly disliked the

climate and he ended up getting sick and so sick that he got stressed out. And then at some

point, this same man takes some of his arrowheads and he cuts his fingers from the joints.

And then his hands bleed out until he dies. So this is a confusing situation because technically

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