![]() Old age is the price to receive from Dunya for having to live longer than your kins and peers. But the problem to come ahead is a phenomenal change in the anatomy and physiology of his body, a kind of incurable illness which is more worrisome than AIDS is-Old Age. Man may feel happy that life has favored him genenorouly, he has a long life. Longevity that comes with the interminable chain of pain. Part of the most striking colours of Dunya is longevity. Regret is the reward for the hearts that fall in love with a fading shadow-Dunya. He never understood the words of Ibn Qayyim that, “Falling in love with Dunya is as absurd as falling in love with a fading shadow.” So, when it finally took its leave, man painfully regretted. At the beginning, he thought it would stay forever and would never come to an end. He consequently becomes deeply sad and worried. Suddenly, it flies up and leaves him once again to the scorching heat of the sun and the extreme coolness of the moon. Man, pleased with its warmth, becomes lost in pleasure, joy and beatitude. However, man feels relieved when it comes over him and covers him under its arms like a devastated chick under the wings of her mother. But how long it stays? It passes as fast as it comes. He looks at the world in a similar way the materialist does who, when he failed to appreciate the secrets of existence, when he failed to ascertain the power of Allah, when he failed to decode the divine messages, when he failed to understand the ultimate force behind all the forces, when he failed to comprehend the all-powerful being that possesses and begets all powers, he presumptuously behaved like a demi-god and concluded that nothing could possibly be existing outside the place he occupies, the Earth-a pale-blue dot that is suspended in the vastness of the universe. What he physically experiences has deluded him and deceived him into thinking that nothing exists apart from the objects his eyes see, his tongue tastes, his ears hear, his skin feels and his brain has a power to detect, observe and imagine. He forgot to think of where he is and for how long he is going to stay. His spiritual comforts are not a matter to him. Man strives to satisfy his material yearnings and carnal desires that have eaten deep into his better self. But the attitude of man towards it is that of a poor being that takes it to be everlasting and permanent despite the pellucid facts he has seen over and over again, the foremost of which are: CHANGE and DEATH. He, the Creator, describes the life of Dunya a thing of enjoyment that has no permanence and consistency. ![]() All the laws that govern it were laid out by Him. A Muslim believes firmly that the universe and all that it contains is a creation of Allah and nothing hides from him. The joy it brings, the pain it causes, everything does not take long to stay. The Almighty Allah, the Creator of the World, says, “This worldly life is but a deceiving enjoyment.” It does not last. “Dunya is sweet,” the Prophet (SAW) says, “and beautifully greenish-attractive. It has a magic that turns peaple deaf and blind to the realities of life. It constantly deceives the beholder and allures its dwellers. Insignificant, as it naturally is, in the sight of Allah but lovely and attractive in the eyes of man, for the cataract he has contracted the day he was born in it. Dunya, the lowest of the low the worthless. The worldly life we live is fleeting, transient, fast-moving and like a smoke, the more it goes up the more it loses its form and disappears into the sphere of nothingness. Dunya therefore, is Zillun Za’ilun: AN EPHEMERAL SHADOW. And, under the law of Allah, the Creator of all that exists, everything that exists, does so within the ambit of time assigned to it. The place is not destined to exist infinitely because of the finite structures upon which it was made to stand. We are a part of beings that are trapped in a place that swims in space and time. It will deceive you the same way the shadow deceives that who takes a rest beneath its cool dark.Ī sober reflection on and a deep thought into the nature of human life is sufficiently enough to tell a man of the delicate position he occupies in the hierarchy of creation and its relation to other entities abound in the universe. Like a fading shadow so does Dunya fade away into the oblivion of the past.
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