Death: The Certain Appointment
Every soul will taste death. How remembering it cures heedlessness, and the practical steps to prepare: tawbah, reconciliation, and the deeds that outlive us.
Death & the Akhirah Khutbahs
Nawawi Hadith 31: Renounce the World
On zuhd: why renouncing attachment to this world earns Allah's love, and renouncing envy of others earns people's love.
Nawawi Hadith 4: Written Before Birth
On the stages of creation in the womb, the four decrees written over every soul, and why the ending of a life matters more than its middle.
Nawawi Hadith 40: Stranger and Traveler
On the Prophet's instruction to live in this world as a stranger or traveler, and Ibn Umar's counsel to take from life for death.
Nawawi Pair 39 & 40: Forgiven Mistakes, Fleeting World
Imam Nawawi's Hadith 39 lifts the guilt of honest mistakes, and Hadith 40 calls believers to live in this world like a stranger passing through.