Allah Most High says: “But you prefer the life of this lower world, even though the Hereafter is better and more lasting”. Indeed, most people – even the devout – spend far more time thinking of all the details of their day-to-day dealings with the dunya.
But if we understood properly how matters truly stand for every human being, we would give far more thought to that which awaits us in our graves and when we arise from them to take our places, for good or ill, in the Akhira, the Hereafter. Whatever we find there, be it unimaginable bliss or unspeakable torment, will be with us forever.
In this important book the eruditeand much-loved Egyptian scholar, author and broadcaster Shaykh Muhammad Mitwalli al-Sha‘rawi, Allah’s mercy be upon him, offers a vivid and authoritative description, based on the Qur’an and other classic sources, of the conditions we shall meet with in the Next World, the eternal abode.