THE REALITY OF THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER
ALLĀH speaks of this world and the hereafter in a manner which implies that one should lose interest in this world and long for the hereafter. ALLĀH says:
وَمَا هَذِهِ الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلاَّ لَهْوٌ وَلَعِبٌ
And this life of the world is only an amusement and a play!
Which distracts people’s hearts and minds, because of what ALLĀH has created in it of adornment, pleasures and desires that attract those whose hearts have turned away from the truth and that look attractive to the eyes of the negligent and give joy to souls whose main pursuit is falsehood. But it quickly passes and comes to an end, and the one who is in love with it will get nothing but sorrow, loss and regret.
وَإِنَّ الدَّارَ الاْإخِرَةَ لَهِيَ الْحَيَوَانُ
But the Hereafter is indeed the real life
That is, the perfect life, one of the characteristics of which is that people there will be physically strong, because their bodies and strength will be created for life, and everything will be available there that makes life perfect and brings pleasure and joy and fulfilment of physical desires, by way of food, drink, spouses and so on, such as no eye has seen, no ear has heard, nor has it entered the mind of man.
لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ
If only they knew.
They would not give precedence to this world over the hereafter, and if only they understood, they would not have lost interest in the abode of the only true life or been distracted by this abode of distraction and play. This indicates that those who have such knowledge must inevitably give precedence to the hereafter over this world, because of what they know about the nature of the two realms.
{Tafsir As-Sa'di}
#sadi #Ankaboot (29:64)
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