The Meeting with Allah

"The Prophet (SAWS) said, 'Whoever loves the Meeting with Allah, Allah too loves the Meeting with him; and whoever hates the Meeting with Allah, Allah too hates the Meeting with him'."

(Sahih al-Bukhari)

"Lost indeed are they
Who treat it as a falsehood
That they must meet Allah -
Until on a sudden
The hour is on them,
And they say:
'Ah! woe
Unto us that we took
No thought of it'..."

(The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, 6:31)

The footnote accompanying the above verse is vivid, personifying a man's sins as ugly demons that he will carry on his back, and a man's good deeds as a strong patient mount that will carry him on its back.

Proof of God

"... Allah is so essential and so real it is difficult to miss that... One of the biggest evidence for the existence of Allah is the fact that the majority of the people (inhabitants) of this world believe in a supreme being... That in itself is an evidence..."

(Source: Aqidah Tahawiyah audio series, by Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf, Dars 3)

The existence of God is less discussed in the Qur'an than the Oneness of God. Something to think about.

If God is all-powerful...

Not that we should be thinking such questions but some people do/have and it needs to be addressed... If God is all-powerful, can He create an entity like Himself?

"... It's a useless argument... He would be created. Right? To create something like Him that doesn't have a beginning and doesn't have an end, that's going into a place we don't need to go..."

(Source: Aqidah Tahawiyah audio series, by Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf, Dars 3)

Being "all-powerful" is one attribute amongst other attributes.

Comfort Zones

Expand.

"In journey, a man's character is disclosed."

"Hazrat Bishar Hafi said, 'O learned men, if you would have gone out in journey, you would have been purified... In short, if a man remains confined in [his] house, his character and conduct are kept limited there and his bad character is not disclosed as no opportunity arises [for him] to see things opposed to his nature'."

(Source: Ihya Ulum-id-Din, Chapter of the Rules and Regulations of Journey)

Venture.

What are friends for.

"Hazrat Abu Darda used to sit by graves. Being asked the reason, he said: 'I sit with such people who remind me of the next world. If I go away from them, they do not backbite me.'"

(Source: Ihya Ulum-id-Din)

Rare.

Find excuses not faults

"Hazrat Ibnul Mubarak said, 'A believer searches for excuses and a hypocrite searches for faults'."

(Source: Ihya Ulum-id-Din, chapter of Love and Brotherhood)