New Year's Resolution

New Year ’s Eve is a perfect time to reflect and contemplate. What we have prepare for the next day, next month, next year and so on. But often we forget about our preparation for the real “next day”, and that is the next life after this worldly life.

So, here I’ll give you a few verses from the Quran about the afterlife or hereafter. Hope it will be useful and at least it can be something to think about. Aaaameeenn…. J

Verses about the Hereafter

Indeed, those who have said, "Our Lord is Allah" and then remained on a right course – the angels will descend upon them, [saying], "Do not fear and do not grieve but receive good tidings of Paradise, which you were promised. We [angels] were your allies in worldly life and [are so] in the Hereafter. And you will have therein whatever your souls desire, and you will have therein whatever you request [or wish], As accommodation from a [Lord who is] Forgiving and Merciful." (Fussilat 41:31-32)

[For the believers are] gardens of perpetual residence which they will enter. They will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls, and their garments therein will be silk. And they will say, "Praise to Allah, who has removed from us [all] sorrow. Indeed, our Lord is Forgiving and Appreciative - He who has settled us in the home of duration out of His bounty. There touches us not in it any fatigue, and there touches us not in it weariness [of mind]." (Faatir 35:33-35)

And We will have removed whatever is within their breasts of resentment, [while] flowing beneath them are rivers. And they will say, "Praise to Allah , who has guided us to this; and we would never have been guided if Allah had not guided us. Certainly the messengers of our Lord had come with the truth." And they will be called, "This is Paradise, which you have been made to inherit for what you used to do." (Al-‘Araaf 7:43)

Indeed, whoever comes to his Lord as a criminal (i.e., disbeliever, sinner) - indeed, for him is Hell; he will neither die therein nor live. (Ta Ha 20:74)

And for those who disbelieved in their Lord is the punishment of Hell, and wretched is the destination. When they are thrown into it, they hear from it a [dreadful] inhaling while it boils up. It almost bursts with rage. Every time a company is thrown into it, its keepers ask them, "Did there not come to you a warner?" They will say," Yes, a warner had come to us, but we denied and said, ' Allah has not sent down anything. You are not but in great error.' "And they will say, "If only we had been listening or reasoning, we would not be among the companions of the Blaze." And they will admit their sin, so [it is] alienation for the companions of the Blaze. (Al-Mulk 67:6-11)

The Day their faces will be turned about in the Fire, they will say, "How we wish we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger." And they will say, "Our Lord, indeed we obeyed our masters and our dignitaries, and they led us astray from the [right] way." (Al-Ahzaab 33:66-67)