What Package Of Life We Are Interested
Some verses of the Quran about “Life of this world and of the hereafter” are posted here with the hope that you will like to brainstorm and analyze that what type of life we MUSLIMS want to achieve?
What Package of life we are interested in?
(a) The life of the present and its glitter (The basic requirement for this type of life is knowledge of professional skill)
(b) The tilth of the Hereafter (The basic requirement for this type of life is knowledge of spiritual wisdom)
(c) Both for the life of the present with its glitter and for the tilth of the Hereafter (The basic requirement for this type of life is knowledge of professional skill with knowledge of spiritual wisdom or knowledge of spiritual wisdom along with professional skill)
(d) Neither intended for the life of the present with its glitter nor the tilth of the Hereafter (The basic requirement for this type of life is ignorance to the knowledge of professional skill and unawareness with the knowledge of spiritual wisdom)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
O humanity! Be mindful of your Lord, and beware of a Day when no parent will be of any benefit to their child, nor will a child be of any benefit to their parent. Surely Allah’s promise is true. So do not let the life of this world deceive you, nor let the Chief Deceiver deceive you about Allah.. [31:33]
This worldly life is no more than play and amusement, but far better is the ˹eternal˺ Home of the Hereafter for those mindful ˹of Allah˺. Will you not then understand? [6:32]
And this worldly life is not but diversion and amusement. And indeed, the home of the Hereafter – that is the [eternal] life, if only they knew. [29:64]
Know that the life of this world is but amusement and diversion and adornment and boasting to one another and competition in increase of wealth and children – like the example of a rain whose [resulting] plant growth pleases the tillers; then it dries and you see it turned yellow; then it becomes [scattered] debris. And in the Hereafter is severe punishment and forgiveness from Allah and approval. And what is the worldly life except the enjoyment of delusion. [57:20]
Beautified for men is the love of things they covet; women, children, much of gold and silver (wealth), branded beautiful horses, cattle and well-tilled land. This is the pleasure of the present world’s life; but Allah has the excellent return (Paradise with flowing rivers, etc.) with Him. [3:14]
Wealth and children are the attractions of this worldly life, but lasting good works have a better reward with your Lord and give better grounds for hope. [18:46]
And it is not [possible] for one to die except by permission of Allah at a decree determined. And whoever desires the reward of this world – We will give him thereof; and whoever desires the reward of the Hereafter – We will give him thereof. And We will reward the grateful. [3:145]
Whoever seeks the harvest of the Hereafter, We shall increase for him his harvest, and whoever seeks the harvest of this world, We shall give him thereof; but he will have no share in the Hereafter. [42:20]
Whoever desires the life of this world and its adornments – We fully repay them for their deeds therein, and they therein will not be deprived. [11:15]
Indeed, those who do not expect the meeting with Us and are satisfied with the life of this world and feel secure therein and those who are heedless of Our signs – [10:7]
The ones who prefer the worldly life over the Hereafter and avert [people] from the way of Allah, seeking to make it [seem] deviant. Those are in extreme error. [14:3]
They know what is apparent of the worldly life, but they, of the Hereafter, are unaware. [30:7]
So let not their wealth or their children impress you. Allah only intends to punish them through them in worldly life and that their souls should depart [at death] while they are disbelievers. [9:55]
Those are the ones who have bought the life of this world [in exchange] for the Hereafter, so the punishment will not be lightened for them, nor will they be aided. [2:86]
For them will be punishment in the life of [this] world, and the punishment of the Hereafter is more severe. And they will not have from Allah any protector. [13:34]
That is because they preferred the worldly life over the Hereafter and that Allah does not guide the disbelieving people. [16:107]
So turn away from whoever turns his back on Our message and desires not except the worldly life. [53:29]
[They are] those whose effort is lost in worldly life, while they think that they are doing well in work.[18:104]
And do not extend your eyes toward that by which We have given enjoyment to [some] categories of them, [its being but] the splendor of worldly life by which We test them. And the provision of your Lord is better and more enduring. [20:131]
Indeed, We will support Our messengers and those who believe during the life of this world and on the Day when the witnesses will stand – [40:51]
Whoever desires the reward of this world – then with Allah is the reward of this world and the Hereafter. And ever is Allah Hearing and Seeing. [4:134]
Allah extends provision for whom He wills and restricts [it]. And they rejoice in the worldly life, while the worldly life is not, compared to the Hereafter, except [brief] enjoyment. [13:26]
And keep yourself patient [by being] with those who call upon their Lord in the morning and the evening, seeking His countenance. And let not your eyes pass beyond them, desiring adornments of the worldly life, and do not obey one whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance and who follows his desire and whose affair is ever [in] neglect. [18:28]
O you who have believed, what is [the matter] with you that, when you are told to go forth in the cause of Allah , you adhere heavily to the earth? Are you satisfied with the life of this world rather than the Hereafter? But what is the enjoyment of worldly life compared to the Hereafter except a [very] little. [9:38]
Every soul will taste death. And We test you with evil and with good as trial; and to Us you will be returned. [21:35]
And it is He who has made you successors upon the earth and has raised some of you above others in degrees [of rank] that He may try you through what He has given you. Indeed, your Lord is swift in penalty; but indeed, He is Forgiving and Merciful. [6:165]
And We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], the Book in truth, confirming that which preceded it of the Scripture and as a criterion over it. So judge between them by what Allah has revealed and do not follow their inclinations away from what has come to you of the truth. To each of you We prescribed a law and a method. Had Allah willed, He would have made you one nation [united in religion], but [He intended] to test you in what He has given you; so race to [all that is] good. To Allah is your return all together, and He will [then] inform you concerning that over which you used to differ. [5:48]
Until, when they arrive [at the place of Judgement], He will say, “Did you deny My signs while you encompassed them not in knowledge, or what [was it that] you were doing?” [27:84]