Friday sermon at Masjid Nehar Wali highlights the importance of preparing for the Hereafter, offering prayers and doing lasting good deeds

Agra. Khateeb of Masjid Nehar Wali, Mohammad Iqbal, urged people to reflect on the reality of life and death during his Friday sermon. He said, “There is no guarantee of life, but death is 100 percent certain.”

Addressing the worshippers, Mohammad Iqbal asked them to consider a simple question: if one thing is guaranteed and another has no guarantee, what would a wise person prepare for? Naturally, he would prepare for the thing that is certain. However, he said, people have reversed this priority in their daily lives.

He said that people make years-long plans for their lives, including the future of their children, businesses, homes, education and worldly achievements. However, preparation for death and the Hereafter is often postponed until tomorrow.

Quoting the Holy Quran, he said:

“And the life of this world is nothing but the enjoyment of delusion.”
(Surah Aal-e-Imran, 3:185)

He said that despite knowing this reality, people often become absorbed in worldly life. A person may be alive today, but no one knows where or when death will come.

Referring to another Quranic verse, he said:

“And no soul knows in what land it will die.”
(Surah Luqman, 31:34)

Khateeb Mohammad Iqbal said that people make extensive preparations for their children’s future, businesses, houses and other worldly needs, but should also ask themselves an important question: “What preparation have we made for the Hereafter?”

He asked whether people are regular in their prayers, whether they have sincerely repented and whether they have performed deeds whose rewards can continue even after their death.

He urged people not to postpone prayers by saying, “I will start from tomorrow,” because there is no guarantee of tomorrow.

Quoting the Holy Quran, he said:

“Wherever you may be, death will overtake you.”
(Surah An-Nisa, 4:78)

He said there is no escape from death. Life teaches people to postpone things until tomorrow, but death eventually reminds them that the “tomorrow” they kept waiting for may never arrive.

He urged the worshippers to begin preparing for the Hereafter today and right now, saying that while people are currently above the earth, a day will come when they will have to return beneath it.

Concluding his sermon, Mohammad Iqbal prayed that Allah grants everyone the ability to remain steadfast in prayer, sincerely repent, perform good deeds, contribute to ongoing charity and prepare for the Hereafter.

Ameen, Ya Rabb-ul-Alameen.