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A female Qur'an teacher always advised her students to live by this Ayah:
"And I hurried to You, my Lord, so that You'll be pleased" (20:84).
She told them, "this ayah is what move me. When I hear the Adhan and I'm occupied and in the middle of something, I remind myself of this Ayah and so I get up to pray.
"When my alarm goes off at 2am and I want to go back to sleep, I remember: 'And I hurried to You, my Lord, so that You'll be pleased', and so I get up and stand before Allah."
Her husband had the following arrangement with her: On his way home from a long day work at work he'd call her so she'll get the food hot and ready, so he can come home & eat and rest.
One day he asked her to make Mahshi (stuffed grape leaves) - a very time consuming dish. The process involved wrapping many of them and then putting them in a put to cook. She had three more to wrap; but the Adhan was called.
So she left the 3 remaining grape - leaves (which would have taken her 5 more minutes) and went to pray.
Her husband came home and found that the food was not ready and she was in sujood. He noticed there were only 3 grape-leaves left.
A bit upset, he uttered, "you could have just finished and put the pot to cook them pray!" But she wasn't responding.
He went to her first to discover that she had died in her sujood!
SubhanAllah! Had she waited like any of us to "finish what's in her hand" she would have died in the kitchen. Indeed, the way we live our life is how we will die.
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