This world is a like the dusk. It tends towards nothingness. It slowly erodes with time and wears itself out. Nothing lasts. One day, your pet will die. One day, your loved ones will die. One day, we all will die.
The point is, there is no certainty to the things that live in this world. There is no use trusting them. One should stop depending on the cell phones, the computers, the wealth, even the people in this world. What will it lead to, when it’s going to burn out one day, anyway?
What is urged is not a view of pessimism. What is urged is a view of realism. This world is temporary.
Say you have an incredible hybrid Honda Civic, which runs on 60 miles per gallon. By the looks of it, it seems you’re set. It seems you’re good to go for years. While that may be true, one day the Civic will need its battery replaced, which costs a great deal of money (probably around $3000.00), oil replaced, etc. With a car like that, you are bound to rack up a good number for its mileage. So one day even such a fuel efficient car as such will break down. You might have had a good run, but the point is, it will fade away out of existence. Death will overcome it, and you won’t be able to sell it at one point. No matter how much you recycle it through selling, it will have to go.
Friends are the same way. Nothing is permanent. They will come and go through your life like that, whether it’s through bad ground, or mutual goodness. Some friends stay for a lifetime. They will go to your graves and pray for you. But the point is you evanesce out of life, so you won’t be there together all the time. It’s only in the Hereafter may you meet again.
Thus is the reality of entropy. Entropy is the nature of all things to tend towards chaos. All things then tend to chaos. Everything falls into the void of darkness. Nothing is saved. Much like a black hole, entropy sucks the life out of everything. Not even light can escape. Sounds a bit depressing, right? The truth is more sad than happy, sometimes.
“By Allah, if you knew what I know, you would weep much and laugh little." –Prophet Muhammad (SWS)
Everything is darker than bright. Look out into space. How might light is there compared to dark? There are countless more spots in space that is sheer emptiness than light. Dark energy is about 73 percent of the universe. Dark matter is about 23. The remaining 4 is what we know as normal matter, the stuff that makes us, the planets, and the stars up.
So you see, the world and life is more dark than light. It’s easier to do evil then good, because “The Paradise is surrounded by hardships, and the Hell-fire is surrounded by temptations.” –Prophet Muhammad (SWS)
Unfortunately, we reside in a world like a twilight that leads to darkness. If you follow the world, you’ll be led into that darkness. You mustn’t evanesce. Otherwise you’ll go into a spiral of insanity and keep losing yourself.
Another example is that of a doomed relationship. In this relationship, the man is kind of like a helpless romantic, who keeps giving to the girl. But the girl keeps brushing off the love like it’s nothing. In this way, he keeps losing out, until the girl just leaves altogether. This relationship is evanescent, and he’s left in darkness because he gave and he gave until the girl took enough to leave. She took him for granted, and he did the wrong by giving to her. Too much love can be evil in a way.
In the same way, this world is evanescent. It tends to chaos. One day chaos will overtake this world, and no one can do anything to help it. That’s because Allah (God in Arabic) will take matters into Himself. And it will be too late for the disbelievers.
And fear a Day when no soul will suffice for another soul at all, and no compensation will be accepted from it, nor will any intercession benefit it, nor will they be aided. (Qu’ran 2:123)
This world is ephemeral. But it is also a prelude to something else. It preludes to something amazing. It is the pass that leads to…the Hereafter. If one does very good in this evanescent life, he gets to go to Paradise!!! And that’s where entropy breaks. That’s where chaos is destroyed. That’s where death itself is killed.
But it can also turn for the worst. It could also mean an eternity of torment. Either one goes to a Paradise of bliss, or chaos will keep repeating itself, and will never die with the disbelievers. How excruciatingly painful is that!?!
There, evanescence is eternal. There, chaos is not ephemeral. There, everything is infernal. So which would you choose!?
Let’s all try to go to the place where there is no more evanescence. A place that isn’t sad. Let’s go to a place where happiness is always. Let’s go to a place that is…luminescent.
“He will forgive for you your sins and admit you to gardens beneath which rivers flow and pleasant dwellings in gardens of perpetual residence. That is the great attainment.” (Qu’ran 61:12)