In the name of Allah the most gracious the most merciful
إن لله تعالى ملكا ينزل في كل ليلة فينادي: يا أبناء العشرين جدوا واجتهدوا، ويا أبناء الثلاثين لا تغرنكم الحياة الدنيا، ويا أبناء الأربعين ماذا أعددتم للقاء ربكم؟ ويا أبناء الخمسين أتاكم النذير، ويا أبنا الستين زرع آن حصاده، ويا أبناء السبعين نودي لكم فأجيبوا، ويا أبناء الثمانين أتتكم الساعة أنتم غافلون )مستدرك الوسائل – الميرزا النوري – ج ١٢ – الصفحة ١٥٧ )
God Almighty has an angel that descends every night and addresses people of this world to the twenty-year-olds it says: twenty-year-olds, strive hard (find your purpose in this world, this is the age where human beings are supposed to start finding their life’s purpose and path, setting goals. The youthful energy is at its peak). To the thirty-year-olds, he says: do not be deceived by the life of this world (let not your material or spiritual achievements blind you, do not excide your lord’s boundaries.
This world is so worthless that if you were to place it on one side of a scale and only two prayers of a sincere believer on the other side, the world would not even come close to what a believer’s prayer is worth). To the forty-year-olds, he says: what have you prepared for a meeting with your Lord? (This age is supposed to be the height of every human being’s life’s experience, their life’s curve has reached its peak, and from this point onwards man needs to start closing his bag of deeds, it is at this point in their life where man needs to start decorating their life’s project not starting a new one).
To the fifty-year-olds, the harbinger has come to you (signs of old age and death have started reflecting in your faces, your joints, and gray hair).
To the sixty-year-olds, the time for His harvest has arrived (the time to be called to your lord has drawn close, one needs to start reflecting more on death, preparing themselves for the inevitable ).
To the seventy-year-olds, he says: We are calling to you, and you shall answer (those at this age if they were to listen closely they would be able to hear the call of the angel of death loud and clear).
Our lives are not supposed to be a bunch of random actions without structure; a fulfilled life is a life that has true structure.
“Did you think that We had created you for a playful purpose and that you were not to return to Us?”
Chapter (23) sūrat l-mu’minūn (The Believers), Holy Quran
By Sh. Mohau Mokoatle