How to be Rich and.....

Al Salam Alaikum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatoh

Completing yesterday's topic regarding "Silat Al Rahim" "صلة الرحم", we said that obeying our parents and visiting our relatives are ways to live longer and be wealthier in addition to another invaluable outcome which is leaving a memorable good reputation and name after passing away.

What about this long life, is it a concrete, physical kind of life with longer number of years?!  Or, is it an abstract sort of length?!  What are you saying, I just can't understand!  O...Beg me pardon...I'll try to make it simpler.   Explaining the earlier mentioned saying of Prophet Mohammad -peace and blessings of Allah are upon him-, kindly, refer to yesterday's posting "Want to live longer...".  To explain this saying, scholars have so many rich and useful elaborations, some of them said that it is really a real increase in the number of years lived, and someone might wonder, isn't our age written as our fate and no one else but Allah can change that.  Ya, that's true, and our scholars said as an answer to this wonder, that what is written is in this way:  If this person will perform "Silat Al Rahim" he/she will live this number of years, which is a longer life, and if this person will not perform "Silat Al Rahim" he/she will live this number of years, which is a shorter life.

Others said, this increase is a kind of blessings in this man's or woman's life even if he/she lived a short life in terms of number of years, but, he/she will have blessings in these years.  Meaning:  Many accomplishments will be done in this life, he/she will leave useful knowledge for mankind, he/she will make use of every single moment in his/her life for individual, family, society, and the world welfare.

And I agree with this a hundred percent, we can see this in everyday life, some people lived for only 40 years or even 38 or whatever like Al Imam Al Nawawi, but he left a treasured number of books that till this day and inshallah till the end of this world, people are making use of his knowledge, as examples of these books:  Al Athkar, Riyadh Al Saliheen, and Sharh Saheeh Muslim.

Besides, other scholars said that this person might leave children that will make good things to him/her after their death, like prayers "doa'a", "دعاء" or donations "sadaqa", "صدقة" for their parents, or whatever good doings that will be beneficiary to their parents.

To be continued...