Qur’an verses and hadith about the hereafter
What comes after, and how these passages use it to set the weight of what comes before it. Each one carries its full source and a short explanation of what it was answering.
- Whoever follows a path in pursuit of knowledge, Allah will make easy for him a path to Paradise.Sahih Muslim 2699
- The first thing for which a servant will be brought to account on the Day of Resurrection is his prayer. If it is sound, he has succeeded; if it is deficient, he has failed and lost.Sunan al-Tirmidhi 413
- When a person dies, his deeds come to an end except for three: an ongoing charity, beneficial knowledge, or a righteous child who prays for him.Sahih Muslim 1631
- Be in this world as though you were a stranger or a traveler.Sahih al-Bukhari 6416
- Take advantage of five before five: your youth before your old age, your health before your illness, your wealth before your poverty, your free time before your busyness, and your life before your death.al-Mustadrak al-Hakim 7846
- The son of Adam will not move on the Day of Resurrection until he is asked about his life and how he spent it, and his knowledge and what he did with it.Sunan al-Tirmidhi 2417
- O Allah, You are my Lord; there is no god but You. You created me and I am Your servant. I acknowledge Your favour upon me and I acknowledge my sin, so forgive me, for none forgives sins but You.Sahih al-Bukhari 6306
- O Allah, set right for me my religion which is the safeguard of my affairs; set right my worldly life in which is my living; and set right my Hereafter to which is my return.Sahih Muslim 2720
- Whoever repents before the sun rises from the west, Allah will accept his repentance.Sahih Muslim 2703
- Protect yourself from the Fire, even with half a date given in charity.Sahih al-Bukhari 1417
- Dunya is not the resting place, it is the testing place.Reflection
- Time is a sword: if you do not cut it, it will cut you.Arabic proverb
- A good name is better than riches.Arabic proverb
- Do good, and cast it into the sea.Arabic proverb
- Do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins.Quran 39:53
- Indeed, the promise of Allah is truth, so let not the worldly life delude you.Quran 35:5
- Our Lord, give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter, and protect us from the punishment of the Fire.Quran 2:201
- Our Lord, forgive me and my parents and the believers the Day the account is established.Quran 14:41
- The home of the Hereafter - that is the true life, if only they knew.Quran 29:64
- But you prefer the worldly life, while the Hereafter is better and more enduring.Quran 87:16-17
- Seek, through that which Allah has given you, the home of the Hereafter; and do not forget your share of the world. And do good, as Allah has done good to you.Quran 28:77
- And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord, and a garden as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for the righteous.Quran 3:133
- Whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it, and whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it.Quran 99:7-8
- Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your full compensation on the Day of Resurrection.Quran 3:185
- And the Hereafter is better for you than this first life.Quran 93:4
- And fear a Day when you will be returned to Allah, then every soul will be compensated for what it earned.Quran 2:281
- O reassured soul, return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing.Quran 89:27-28
- Whoever wrongs himself but then seeks forgiveness of Allah will find Allah Forgiving and Merciful.Quran 4:110
- And from the night, pray as additional worship for you; perhaps your Lord will raise you to a praised station.Quran 17:79
- Repent to Allah with sincere repentance. Perhaps your Lord will remove from you your misdeeds and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow.Quran 66:8
- Allah will replace their evil deeds with good ones. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.Quran 25:70
- And return to your Lord and submit to Him.Quran 39:54
- Creator of the heavens and earth, You are my protector in this world and the Hereafter. Cause me to die a Muslim and join me with the righteous.Quran 12:101
- O son of Adam, you are but a collection of days; whenever a day passes, part of you passes away.al-Hasan al-Basri
- Hold yourselves to account before you are held to account, and weigh yourselves before you are weighed.Umar ibn al-Khattab
- Wasting time is worse than death, because wasting time cuts you off from Allah and the Home of the Hereafter, while death cuts you off from this world and its people.Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaid)
- I have seen most people kill time in the strangest ways… I likened them to people chatting on a ship that is carrying them along, unaware of it.Ibn al-Jawzi (Sayd al-Khatir)
- I knew people who were more tight-fisted with their lifetimes than with their dirhams and dinars.al-Hasan al-Basri
- The world is three days: yesterday, which has gone with all it held; tomorrow, which you may never reach; and today — so work in it.al-Hasan al-Basri
- When evening comes, do not wait for the morning; when morning comes, do not wait for the evening. Take from your health for your illness, and from your life for your death.Abdullah ibn Umar
- A servant stands before Allah twice: once in prayer, and once on the Day he meets Him. Whoever gives the first standing its due will find the second made easy.Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaid)
- I place the Ka‘bah between my eyebrows, the Bridge beneath my feet, Paradise on my right, the Fire on my left and the Angel of Death behind me, and I think of it as my last prayer.Hatim al-Asamm
- May Allah have mercy on a man who is not deceived by how many people he sees around him. Son of Adam, you will die alone, enter the grave alone, be raised alone, and be judged alone.al-Hasan al-Basri
- Be children of the Hereafter, and do not be children of this world: today there is action and no reckoning, and tomorrow there is reckoning and no action.Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Whoever thinks about where this world ends up takes care, and whoever is certain the road is long gets ready for the journey.Ibn al-Jawzi (Sayd al-Khatir)
- Some drowsiness of heedlessness and some sleep of desire are unavoidable — but be a light sleeper.Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaid)