Five Questions on the Day of Judgment

The mercy for all the worlds (صَلَّى ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ) said: 

“On the Day of Judgment, a person will not be able to move their feet until they answer these five questions:

(1)     How did he spend his life?

(2)     How did he spend his youth?

(3–4) How did he earn his wealth and where did he           spend it?

(5) To what extent did he act upon his knowledge?”

Those among us who are young should deeply reflect upon how they are spending their youth. If, on the Day of Judgment, they are asked, “How did you spend your youth?” then what answer will they give? Those whose youth has already passed should reflect even more about how they spent those years.

If their youth was not spent in seeking the pleasure of Allah Almighty and according to the Sunnah of His Beloved Prophet (صَلَّى ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ), then they should cry in regret and repent sincerely in the court of Allah, because the door of repentance is still open. There is a famous saying: “If the one who lost his way in the morning returns by evening, he is no longer considered lost.”

O lovers of the Prophet! Our tongues still function, our intellect is sound, and before death arrives, we still possess the opportunity to repent. Therefore, we should repent immediately.

Those who have just stepped onto the threshold of youth and are currently enjoying its beauty and vigor should have mercy upon their youth and spend it in righteous deeds. Remember! Very soon, this youth will fade away.

As for youth fading into old age, very few people reach that stage. Many people enter the embrace of death before their youth even declines,and are lowered into the darkness of the grave.

Look around your own neighborhood. How many truly elderly men and women do you see? Perhaps you will conclude that if your area contains a thousand people, you will find many children, many teenagers, and many young adults, but those who can truly be called “old” may only be fifteen or twenty in number. This shows that perhaps only 2% of people reach old age, while the remaining 98% enter their graves before their youth fades. Remember! Reaching old age is not easy. To travel safely from youth into old age, a person must survive illnesses, major accidents, hardships, and countless dangerous stages of life.