Meeting the Prophet (s.a.w.) with Our Last Breath

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 

Shaykh Muhammad Nazhim Adil al-Haqqani (q.s.) said, “When we take our last breath, we will witness Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.), but we have to be mindful of the condition we meet him.  We put so much effort and so much focus on our material life.  We must not live a life where we will be disappointed on that last breath.  When you greet the Prophet (s.a.w.), it must be with glad tidings, with love, with an understanding that we did our best, that we prepared our best and now, we cannot wait to run into his loving embrace.  It must not be with a sense of shame and disappointment, where we said we believed, but did not believe because nothing was done to cement that belief.  The Holy Qur’an Describes people on the Day of Judgement who say: 

سُوۡرَةُ السَّجدَة

… رَبَّنَآ أَبۡصَرۡنَا وَسَمِعۡنَا فَٱرۡجِعۡنَا نَعۡمَلۡ صَـٰلِحًا إِنَّا مُوقِنُونَ (١٢) 

… “Our Lord!  We have seen and we have heard: now then Send us back (to the world): we will work righteousness: for we do indeed (now) believe.” (Surah as-Sajdah:12) 

They did not fulfill the promise they made on the Day of Promises, and when their souls return to that Ocean of Light, they are filled with remorse.”