يَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى
Yaqoolu yaa laitanee qaddamtu lihayaatee
He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."
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89:24Ayah 130
5 ayahs in Al-Fajr are strongly about the Day of Judgment. This is one of them.
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He will say as he remembers ‘O yā is for calling attention to something would that I had sent ahead good deeds and faith for my life!’ for a good life in the Hereafter or it means ‘during my life’ in the world.
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The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till a man passes by a grave of somebody and
says, 'Would that I were in his place.' "
The Last Hour would not come until a person would pass by a grave of another person and he would say: I wish it had been my abode.
It would have been better for him. I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: I think (or, I have been commanded) that I should be brief in what I say, for brevity is better.
`Aisha, (complaining of headache) said, "Oh, my head"! Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "I wish that had
happened while I was still living, for then I would ask Allah's Forgiveness for you and invoke Allah
for you." Aisha said, "Wa thuklayah! By Allah, I think you want me to die; and If this should happen,
you would spend the last part of the day sleeping with one of your wives!" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Nay, I
should say, 'Oh my head!' I felt like sending for Abu Bakr and his son, and appoint him as my
successor lest some people claimed something or some others wished something, but then I said (to
myself), 'Allah would not allow it to be otherwise, and the Muslims would prevent it to be otherwise".
“We came to Khabbab
to
visit him (when he was sick), and he said: ‘I have been sick for a
long time, and were it not that I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
say: “Do not wish for death,” I would have wished for it.’ And
he
said: “A person will be rewarded for all his spending, except
for
(what he spends) on dust,” or he said, “on building.”
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