The helmet

As soon as the law of wearing a helmet on the head was issued, people no more suffer headaches to wear it as he used to suffer when wearing the topee to perform Salah. You are grateful to people who remind you to wear the helmet on the head. Otherwise, you will have to put your hand in your pocket [to pay a fine]. But, if people have to tell you something about Deen, then without hesitation and vehemently you would tell him: "Is this your problem? Mind your own business! Does this concern you?" And other similar remarks. This is because you do not see what you are losing out on when you do not practice it. But yet, without doubt, one will be reckoned for that. It may not happen immediately but surely it is awaiting us soon. People tend to consider the worldly consequences and find the consequences in the Aakhirah farfetched. That is why they do not care. Allah Ta'ala says: "In reality you love that which comes fast/the immediate* (Dunya) and you neglect/ forsake* that which comes after (the hereafter)." (S 75: V 20-21)

[English version of "Caraille lors la tète" – Al Jamiat – Vol.7 No.10]