Allah Almighty says:

The morrow here refers to the Day of Judgment.

He Almighty also says:

Bringing yourself to account is of two kinds:

The first occurs before embarking on a certain deed. In this kind you reflect on the outcomes and consequences of a deed before starting it. You then do not do it unless you are sure that doing it is preferable to leaving it. Al-Hassan (may Allah have mercy upon him) said, “May Allah have mercy upon the person who meditates upon a certain deed before embarking on it; then, if he finds that he will do it for Allah’s sake, he undertakes it; and if he finds that he will do it for the sake of another person or for a worldly gain, he refrains from doing it.”

The second takes place after performing a certain deed. This type is subdivided into types:

1. You call yourself to account for not doing an act of obedience perfectly.

2. You call yourself to account for an act done though it was preferable not to do it.

3. You call yourself to account for the permissible acts done, asking yourself whether you did them for Allah’s sake and thus you may be a winner on the Day of Judgment; or whether you did them for a worldly gain, in which case you will be a loser in the Hereafter.

1. Inculcate in yourself that the more pains you take in calling yourself to account in this world, the easier will be your situation when you are brought to account for your deeds before Almighty Allah in the Hereafter.

2. Bear in mind that the reward for bringing yourself to account in this world is to dwell in an eternal abode in the best place in Paradise with the prophets and righteous believers and to look at Almighty Allah’s face there.

3. Reflect on the bad consequences of not calling yourself to account in this world: heedlessness that would result in you being admitted to Hellfire with the disbelievers and evil doers and prevented, as well, from looking at the face of Almighty Allah.

4. Seek the company of righteous people who sincerely help you do right and refrain from wrong, and who call themselves to account for their deeds in this world.

5. Contemplate the biographies of the righteous predecessors and their earnestness in calling themselves to account and remaining mindful of their duties to Almighty Allah.

6. Visit graves and meditate upon the state of the dead and how they cannot redeem what they have lost or reform their faults.

7. Attend religious lessons and admonitions.

8. Offer Qiyam Al-Layl (Night Vigil Prayer), recite the Qur’an regularly, and try to get closer to Almighty Allah as much as you can by observing different kinds of acts of obedience.

9. Keep away from tempting places that divert you from the importance of bringing yourself to account.

10. Beseech Almighty Allah to help you keep calling yourself to account, be mindful of your religious duties, and make easy for you the path of doing good.

11. Do not have a high opinion of yourself and your devotion, for this causes you to neglect calling yourself to account and results in you ignoring your faults.