Suleiman Hani – Why is Studying the Afterlife so Important

			Why is the study of the afterlife so important and motive presents q&a With Suliman Hani. Studying
the afterlife is crucial. And a lot of people don't study the afterlife, they spend a lot of time
and a lot of hours and sometimes years studying different topics. And sometimes they don't have any
benefit to them in the short or long term. But when you study the afterlife, one of the most obvious
impacts or influences, especially if you're constantly being reminded of it, it'll influence your
decision making right now, your goal setting the way you see the world, it'll shape your life in
many different ways. It affects how you interact with other people, it gives you purpose, and
		

			oftentimes people are living unfulfilled or without any clear purpose or even with arbitrary
purpose. And that purpose is is crucial in this world. But more importantly, it's what leads to the
success that you seek. It's like saying, you know, I'm going to drive somewhere, but I am refusing
to put in the final destination on my navigation system or my GPS, I don't know where I'm going. I
don't know how to get there. I don't know what the detours are, I don't know the kinds of people
that might help me or stop me along my journey. So knowing where you're ending up and how to get
there is crucial to everyday life and reaching that criteria of success. Okay, so the idea of, okay,
		

			you know, what, there is an afterlife, and there's a good place, and there's a bad place. So why
does that require so much study in the sense that okay, now I want to go to the good place. So
ultimately, when you study paradise, it gives you more motivation. It reminds you of your purpose,
it reminds you of how important it is that you keep your priority in check. And oftentimes, we
become distracted as as simple as it is, we need to be reminded. And in fact, if we didn't need to
be reminded constantly, it would be mentioned maybe once or twice in the Quran, but the fact that
it's mentioned Paradise, and how far and the afterlife in hundreds, if not over 1000 verses in the
		

			Quran, from beginning to end in numerous chapters and every gist of the Quran. It's because we need
that reminder with all the distractions that we have. We become distracted with this world thinking
at times, and maybe being deceived at times thinking about this is it this is what I'm working
towards having a lot of ambitions that are completely disconnected from Paradise or from the
afterlife. So when you're reminded of it and you study and you know the place that you want to end
up and you have a clearer vision, you end up being more motivated, you end up maybe correcting your
act, your actions, working on moral issues as well and overcoming some of the suffering that we
		

			experienced in this world. That is a result of really giving this world more worth than it deserves.