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A Muslim should prepare himself a place to live in (after death), because there are not places for rent there. Once, some companions of the messenger of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) went to visit Abi-Zarr at his house, they found that he only had a simple mattress to sleep on, a cup for drinking and a bowl for eating, washing clothes and kneading, they asked him: "Where is the furniture of your house?" He said:
"We have another house; we will soon go there, so we sent our good furniture there."
A wise man said:
"A man has no house to live in after death but that he built before death. If he built it legally, it would be a pleasant one, but if he built it illegally, it would be a miserable one."
If it is the soul (desires) that controls the body, then man only looks under his feet and only seeks his hopes, his desires, what he eats today, what he drinks today and what he wears today, it doesn't matter if he gets this legally or illegally, if it is not completely legal, if there is hypocrisy or if he does the work only for people. This happens because desires here blinds him from seeing the bounties of Allah, the right way of Allah and the legislation of Allah (Glory to Him).
The messenger of Allah has given us glasses to look by them at this life, how could we look by these glasses O messenger of Allah? He said:
"Look at those who are under you and don't look at those who exceed you, thus you won't despise grants of Allah in your hands."1
So you should:
• Look at those who exceed you in religion.
• Compete to be like them.
• Don't envy them but try to be like them.
Companions of the messenger of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) did this.
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1- Narrated by Ibn Heb'ban in his Sahih, it's his text and
Al-Hakem and said it's sahih (correct).
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