Imagine you are in Mecca and you just completed your Hajj yesterday. You are sitting and waiting for your bus so you can begin your journey back home. You had a night of peaceful and rejuvenating sleep. What felt so strenuous and exhausting a few days ago is now a distant memory after just one night of rest. All that remains with you is: - The joy of doing whatever good you have done. - Regret that you didn't do more. - Regret over having done anything bad. Whether you lived in a luxurious hotel with your best friend one day, in a tent full of strangers another day, or slept on the ground without a mattress or a roof the next - None of it even seems to matter at this point. All tha

Regret is a painful feeling. Sometimes we regret something we have done. Other times we regret things we didn't do when we had the chance. Not only does regret feel horrible, it can destroy our self-esteem and impact our psyche in various ways. But instead of allowing the regret to destroy us (as shaytan would prefer) think about the lessons embedded within that regret. One lesson is that we can use the first-hand experience of painful regret (in this life) to serve as a motivator to drive us to do whatever we can to avoid being amongst the people (in the akhirah) mentioned in this ayah. This type of regret will be far more painful than any type of regret we can feel on Earth. May Alla

Those who represent untruth in the name of Truth, become his enemies. They raise a variety of objections and try to cast doubt upon his veracity. In so doing, they are successful in winning wide support. On the Day of Judgement, those who, taken in by the assertions of false leaders, and not having co-operated with the preacher of Truth, will clearly see that the arguments of their leaders had no real basis in fact. They were simply false objections which they had accepted, as they suited their self-interests, and they had used them as excuses for distancing themselves from the Truth. On the Day of Reckoning they will regret having been taken in by the false arguments of their leaders and no