Don’t Be Sad for Dunyā

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

Shukr to Allāh ﷻ, Ramaḍān has passed and Eid has passed. May they be blessed upon you. These are good things for ākhirah.

“وَلَدَارُ الْآخِرَةِ خَيْرٌ”

(Qur’ān 16:30)

“Wa la-daru l-Akhirati Khayr”

“And the home of the Hereafter is better.”

Ākhirah is better than dunyā. That is certain. People don’t understand this. They are killing each other for dunyā, they are torturing each other, they are harming each other. However, dunyā will remain neither for you, nor for me. It is the ākhirah that is eternal. You must work for ākhirah. You must make an effort for it.

If one percent of the effort made for dunyā is done for ākhirah, it’s enough; it would even be more than enough for a person. But they don’t do that either. The shayṭān doesn’t leave them. They lead people to the wrong way.

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla has given every opportunity for the ākhirah. Now Ramaḍān has passed, shukr to Allāh ﷻ. It has passed with worship. Eid has passed. Now after that is the month of Shawwāl; this month. Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says, whoever fasts for six days in Shawwāl it is as if he fasted for a year. It is as if he fasted for three hundred and sixty days; a year of fasting. There are even some ḥadīths: it is as if you have fasted for a lifetime, says our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam.

Therefore, we should look at the things of ākhirah. Don’t care if dunyā collapses at all. Because dunyā means lowliness. It’s just as its name. Denī’ means low. Dunyā means lowliness. Look at the high things. The high things are the things of ākhirah.

The one who is sad for dunyā will not find any benefit. You should be sad for ākhirah. If you could not work for it, you should be sad about that. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla will reward you for your sadness. He ﷻ will be beneficent to you. He ﷻ will grant you from His ﷻ reward. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla will reward you for what you could not do. It’s not so for dunyā. Even if you are sad for dunyā, you still won’t gain anything.

Therefore, dunyā is in chaos. What we advise Muslims and Mu’mins is: don’t be sad for dunyā. What Allāh ﷻ says happens and nothing else. Therefore, look at ākhirah. Don’t harm yourselves in vain.

May Allāh ﷻ give us what’s beneficial. May Allāh ﷻ make us steadfast upon īmān. That’s what’s important. Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq.

Al-Fatiha.

• Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbaniق

9 April 2025/ 11 Shawwal 1446

Fajr Prayer – Akbaba Dergah, Istanbul