WAKE UP UMMAH

Be God-Conscious To

Escape Hellfire!

If You Forget Allah Now,

He’ll Forget You On The

Day of Judgment!

(M. Javed Naseem)

“Therefore, remember Me, I will

remember you! Be grateful to Me,

and reject not Me!” 

(al-Quran 2:152)

We are God’s subjects but not like the subjects of a worldly king. God gave us a lot of freedom, liberty and choice of action. God loves us because we are His wonderful creation. He is very compassionate and merciful to us. We are chronic sinners but every time we ask Him for forgiveness, He forgives our sins. He is like an affectionate Father to us and we are God’s children – good, bad and ugly in our behavior.

God loves us more when we obey His commands and give due thanks to Him. For all His bounties and favors upon us, He expects loyalty, sincere obedience and honest gratefulness from us. And that is His due. As our Creator, Cherisher and Sustainer, He has rights over us but it’s His greatness that He leaves us free and gives us freedom of choice in our actions. He has told us what is right and what’s wrong; what we should do and what we should not. All our actions are voluntary – it’s our choice and our goodwill. Of course we’ll be held responsible and accountable for those choices; and on the basis of that we’ll be rewarded or punished on the Day of Judgment. Obedience and gratefulness are rewarded while disobedience and ungratefulness would be punished. And we have been warned in advance about that. Ignorance is not an excuse!

Allah tells us very clearly and frankly in the Quran: “Remember Me, I’ll remember you!” Remembering God is a very comprehensive term. It means that we should be conscious of God; obey His commands; fear Him for His wrath and punishment due to revolt or disobedience; stay on the course of righteousness; avoid evil-doing and sinning; fight corruption; enjoin good and forbid evil. In other words, we should live in this world as per the rules and regulations prescribed for us by Him in the Scriptures. If we do that, we will prosper and succeed; we’ll be content and happy; and He will continue showering His bounties and blessing upon us.

Unfortunately, that’s not what we are doing in this world. We have forgotten the purpose of our lives on this planet Earth. We are spreading corruption, injustice and evil. We are killing other human beings for our ulterior motives. We are destroying town after town to gain economic and political control of the world violating other people’s rights. The powerful among us think that they have the right to do that. We have forgotten God and in return He will also forget us on the Day of Judgment. We are ignoring Allah in this world, and Allah will ignore us in the next. He has already warned us about it.

"Taste then - for you forgot the meeting

of this Day of yours, and We too will forget

you – taste the Penalty of Eternity for your

(evil) deeds!"

(al-Quran 32:14)

In today’s world, the voice of sanity is not heard; and the ‘iron hand’ of justice has turned into ‘plastic hand’ – fragile and brittle. The Evil has been dancing naked on the world stage and hypocrites are clapping their hands to show support. The saying goes: ‘What you sow, so shall you reap!’ But people are not worried about their harvest! They keep sowing evil. They will be declared ‘guilty’ on the Day of Judgment.

“If only you could see when the guilty ones

will bend low their heads before their Lord,

(saying): Our Lord! We have seen and we

have heard. Now then send us back (to the

world). We will work righteousness,

for we do indeed (now) believe."

(al-Quran 32:12)

The guilty would beg the Lord Almighty to send them back to the world, giving them another chance to correct the wrongs they did, but it would be too late then. Now is the time to act – now and right now – and correct our actions. Every day in this world is a gift from Allah, and He gives us a second or third or even fourth chance to mend our ways; and repent so that we could achieve righteousness but we don’t care much. We are chasing money and material instead of chasing the right path. We have fallen in love with the life of this world and have forgotten the Hereafter – the real eternal life.

Some people come up with a stupid argument that their sinful life and evil-doing is God’s will. If God wanted, He could have put them on the right path. They are mistaken! Allah does not ‘want’ anything from us. He commanded us to follow the right path and gave us the freedom of choice to do it voluntarily. We want Him; His mercy; His forgiveness and His guidance for our salvation. In other words, we need to seek His guidance and forgiveness. But guidance or forgiveness does not fall free from the skies. We have to seek it from Allah and make an effort in that direction. Only then we’ll be rightly guided. If we don’t seek guidance, we won’t be granted. Simple as that! Allah tells us in the Quran:

“If We had so willed, We could certainly have

brought every soul its true guidance. But the

Word from Me will come true: "I will fill Hell

with Jinns and men all together."

(al-Quran 32:13)

The above verse of the Quran refers to the dialogue between Allah and Iblees (the Devil) when the Almighty ordered angels and Iblees to prostrate in front of Adam. Iblees (the Devil) disobeyed Allah and did not bow down in front of Adam, therefore, he was cursed. He begged Allah to grant him respite so that during that period he could prove that Adam and sons of Adam (we people) were ungrateful and disobedient too. At the end of this discussion, Allah declared that if humans and Jinns followed the Devil, He will fill the Hell with those Devils, Jinns and humans. Since Allah knows that most of us will not follow the commands of Allah, and as a result of that disobedience, many of us would be cast into the Hellfire. Thus the Word of God will come true.

In the Quran, when Allah warns us of the Hellfire, He also clearly tells us the solution to escape the Hellfire. Only righteousness can save us from that torment. So, please make sure that you stand up to the challenge of the Devil; prove him wrong and don’t belong to the group of his followers that would be cast in the Hellfire!

“Those who establish regular prayer, and give

regular charity, and have (in their hearts) the

assurance of the Hereafter, they are on (true)

guidance from their Lord; and they are the

ones who will prosper.”

(al-Quran 31:4-5)

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