DAILY SERMON: Sermon Four: Guideposts

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Ibn 'Abbas  reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah  saying in a sermon:

O people! You have guideposts, so follow your guideposts. And you have an end, so turn toward that end. Indeed, a believer is living between two worries; worry about a passed period of life for which he doesn't know how Allah will treat him, and what is left of his life wherein he doesn't know what Allah has decreed for him. So the 'Abd (servant of Allah) must control himself for his own sake, and must derive benefit from his world for his Hereafter, and from his youth for his old age, and from his life for his death.

By Whose hand Muhammad's soul is! There will be no second chance after death, and there is no other abode after the worldly abode except Paradise or Hell.