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Stop Saying "Tomorrow"
You are made of days, and they're disappearing
Hey you,
Yes - you. (I don’t mean to sound like Joe Goldberg but thought this fit today’s letter)
The one reading this, who keeps telling themselves “soon.”
“Soon, I’ll pray properly.”
“Soon, I’ll start reading Qur’an again.”
“Soon, I’ll fix my habits.”
“Soon, I’ll work on my relationship with Allah.”
But somehow, “soon” never comes, does it?
Life keeps getting the way.
Deadlines.
Messages.
Notifications.
People needing you.
Things you “have to” do.
You tell yourself you’ll get to it… eventually.
But here’s a truth most of us don’t want to admit:
Our life is made up of days. And every day that leaves us… is a piece that we’ll never get back.
‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud ر once said
“I hate to see a man idle - neither working for this world nor the Hereafter.”
And Hasan Al-Basri ر reminded us:
“O son of Adam, you are only a number of days. When a day passes, a part of you leaves with it.”
Can you feel that?
That slow ticking away of your life’s currency?
Every single sunset you watch, is one less you’ll ever see.
Every night you scroll yourself to sleep is a page ripped from your story.
And we’re so careful with money, but so reckless with our time.
Hasan Al-Basri said he met people who were more miserly with their time than their wealth.
Imagine valuing a moment of your life more than gold in your hands.
Because you can always earn back wealth.
But a second?
A day?
A year?
Gone. Forever.
Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ warned us too:
“Take advantage of five before five:
your youth before your old age,
your health before your sickness,
your wealth before your poverty,
your free time before your preoccupation,
and your life before your death.”
Look around you.
People are leaving this world every day.
Some younger than you.
Some healthier than you.
Some with bigger plans than yours.
And none of them thought “today is my last.”
We keep waiting for some perfect moment to change.
When we feel more “spiritual.”
When life calms down.
When Ramadan comes.
When we’re older and wiser.
But the truth is - this moment, right here, is the only one promised to you.
And this dunya isn’t waiting for you.
It’ll keep throwing you distractions.
Endless videos.
Temporary highs.
Pointless arguments.
You’ll keep wasting hours chasing moments you won’t even remember a week from now.
But the one who wins, the one whose name will be honoured in the next life, is the one who remembers:
My time is my capital. My life is my investment.
What you do with you days is what you’re really building for your Hereafter.
I’m not writing this as someone who’s figured it all out.
I’m writing it because I needed this reminder too.
I’ve wasted so many hours chasing what didn’t matter.
Scared to start what Allah already blessed me with.
Telling myself “later” while my soul was quietly starving.
So today, I’m not telling you to overhaul your life.
I’m not asking you to suddenly become a scholar or delete every app or isolate yourself from the world.
I’m just asking you to stop saying “tomorrow.”
Pray that prayer.
Read that one ayah.
Open that book.
Make that du’a.
Call your mum.
Say sorry.
Wake up before Fajr just once this week.
Take one quiet walk and just speak to Allah.
Do this one thing for your Hereafter today.
Because your days are leaving you whether you notice or not.
And when you meet Allah - and you will - you’ll realise the only currency that mattered was what you did with your time.
May Allah put barakah in our hours and let our lives be heavy on the scale of good deeds. Ameen.
What’s one thing you’ve been delaying that you’ll finally start today? Hit reply - I’d genuinely love to hear it.
Until the next letter,
— Hidvyaa