"O THOSE WHO BELIEVE SPEND FROM WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN TO YOU BEFORE COMES A DAY WHEN THERE IS NO TRADING, NO FRIENDSHIP, NO INTERCESSION..." (SURAH AL-BAQARAH: 254)
Many injunctions relating to acts of worship (Ibadah) and dealings with human beings (Ma'amlat) have been described in Surah al-Baqarah. People find a number of these injunctions burdensome and hard to practice. And even among these the injunctions people find most difficult to follow are those relating to their own life and their material possessions. Who one looks at divine injunctions relating to most situations, they either relate to a man's life or his possessions. Extreme love for one's life and material possessions increases a person's propensity to get involved in sins, and if a person gets rid of the love for life and his possessions it becomes easier for him to obey Allah Ta'alah's commandments in all areas of life.
The core message in this verse is that the time to do good deeds is now, as long as one is breathing. Once the Aakhirah comes no one would be willing to sell their good deeds, no friend would give his good deeds to another friend, and no one would be able to intervene on another person's behalf.
From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
Many injunctions relating to acts of worship (Ibadah) and dealings with human beings (Ma'amlat) have been described in Surah al-Baqarah. People find a number of these injunctions burdensome and hard to practice. And even among these the injunctions people find most difficult to follow are those relating to their own life and their material possessions. Who one looks at divine injunctions relating to most situations, they either relate to a man's life or his possessions. Extreme love for one's life and material possessions increases a person's propensity to get involved in sins, and if a person gets rid of the love for life and his possessions it becomes easier for him to obey Allah Ta'alah's commandments in all areas of life.
The core message in this verse is that the time to do good deeds is now, as long as one is breathing. Once the Aakhirah comes no one would be willing to sell their good deeds, no friend would give his good deeds to another friend, and no one would be able to intervene on another person's behalf.
From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
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