Live as though today is all that you have
 

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When you wake up in the morning, do not expect to see the evening
? live as though today is all that you have. Yesterday has
passed with its good and evil, while tomorrow has not yet
arrived. Your life span is but one day, as if you were born in it
and will die at the end of it. With this attitude, you will not
be caught between an obsession over the past, with all its
anxieties, and the hopes of the future, with all its uncertainty.
Live for today: During this day you should pray with a wakeful
heart, recite the Qur'an with understanding, and remember
Allah with sincerity. In this day you should be balanced in your
affairs, satisfied with your allotted portion, concerned with
your appearance and health.

Organize the hours of this day, so that you make years out of
minutes and months out of seconds. Seek forgiveness from your
Lord, remember Him, prepare for the final parting from this
world, and live today happily and at peace. Be content with your
sustenance, your wife, your children, your work, your house and
your station in life.

So hold that which I have given you and be of the grateful
(Qur'an 7:144)

Live today free from sorrow, bother, anger, jealousy, and malice.
You must engrave onto your heart one phrase: Today is my only day. If you have eaten warm, fresh bread today, then what do
yesterday's dry, rotten bread and tomorrow's anticipated
bread matter?

If you are truthful with yourself and have a firm, solid resolve,
you will undoubtedly convince yourself of the following: Today is
my last day to live. When you achieve this attitude, you will
profit from every moment of your day, by developing your
personality, expanding your abilities, and purifying your deeds.
Then you say to yourself:

Today I shall be refined in my speech and will utter neither evil
speech nor obscenity. Also, I shall not backbite.

Today I shall organize my house and office?.

Today I will strive to be obedient to my Lord, pray in the best
manner possible, do more voluntary acts of righteousness, recite
the Qur'an, and read beneficial books. I will plant goodness
into my heart and extract from it the roots of evil such as
pride, jealousy, and hypocrisy.

Today I will help others to visit the sick, to attend a
funeral, to guide the one who is lost, and to feed the hungry. I
will stand side by side with the oppressed and the weak. I will
pay respect to the scholar, be merciful to the young, and
reverent to the old.

O past that has departed and is gone, I will not cry over
you. You will not see me remembering you, not even for a moment,
because you have traveled away from me never to return.

O future, you are in the realm of the unseen, so I will not
be obsessed by your dreams. I will not be preoccupied about what
is to come because tomorrow is nothing and has not yet been
created.

'Today is my only day' is one of the most important
statements in the dictionary of happiness, for those who desire
to live life in its fullest splendor and brilliance.. ........

Taken from the book, 'Dont be Sad' by Aaidh ibn
Abdullah al-Qarni, International Islamic Publishing House pg
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