Hastening to Perform Good Actions

Hasten, as if competing with one another, to forgiveness from your Lord, and to a Paradise as spacious as the heavens and the earth, prepared for the Allah-revering, pious. (Al Imran 3:133)

 

57. Abu Hurayra, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Race to good actions as fast as you can before you are overtaken by one of the seven afflictions. What are you waiting for except delayed poverty, oppressive wealth, debilitating illness, doddering senility, a swift death or the Dajjal? Or are you waiting for an unseen evil, or the Last Hour? The Last Hour will be most bitter and terrible.” (Sunan at-Tirmidhi, Zuhd, 3).

 

Nawawi, Imam. Riyad As-Salihin; The Gardens of the Righteous: A collection of authentic hadiths. Tughra Books Press, Inc. 2014