Life is like boarding a train with a three-part ticket. Each section of the ticket represents a stage of your journey, and once a part is torn off, there is no going back. Understanding these three stages changes how you view every moment you have left.
The Three Parts of Your Ticket
The first part of the ticket covers your time in the womb, a stage you had no consciousness of and will never return to. The second part begins at birth and carries you through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and middle age until you reach the grave. When death arrives, that second ticket is torn off permanently.
“You will not return back to this life. At the moment of death, you see the Angel of Death and you’ll be like, ‘Oh my God, who is this coming to me?’ But now your hands aren’t moving, and he’s coming. Nothing you can do.”
Two Ways to End Your Journey
While there are countless ways to live your life, there are only two ways to die:
- For the one who disobeyed Allah, the soul is extracted with excruciating, unimaginable pain
- For the one who obeyed Allah and believed in Him, the soul departs as easily as being pricked with a pen
- You can live however you choose, but you will die one of these two ways
“You only live once? No. You only die once. You live forever. You die only once. So you can live your life however you want, but you will die one of two ways, and that decision is all in your hands.”
The third ticket, the one that covers eternity in the hereafter, is still being written by the choices you make right now. No one else can be blamed for how your story ends. Make every remaining moment count before the final ticket is torn.
