5 minutes

seize the times

Dr..

Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Haddad

Jul 09 2021

A person lives a life destined for him from eternity in this fleeting life, neither ahead of him nor delay, and this is a fact that no one is ignorant of, but what many do not know is the value of the age he lives, many people do not care to gain his age and time or lose it, because Realizing the value of time, and that if it is too late is not compensated in any case

Your age, O human, is the most precious thing that you possess in this life, as Minister Ibn Hubayrah said:

And time is the most important thing that I meant to save / and I think it is the easiest thing for you to waste?!

If you procrastinate about the future, then procrastination is present, because you do not know whether you realize the future or not.

What has passed has passed, and what is hoped for is unseen, and you have the hour in which you are.

That is, you only have your own watch that you live in, so be sure to use it for what benefits you in your religion and your world. This is what every human being should know. These worldly, money and business owners are keen to use their time in building the world, bringing livelihood and accomplishing work, so they do not waste any time to achieve gain. The materialistic, and this is required for the construction of the world and the realization of interests, but this is not all that should be taken care of. One’s survival in this world is not only for its construction, but for the construction of life that he will come to, sooner or later, because the world is in fact a crossing and a passage to the hereafter, In his worldly life, a person embarks on a serious journey, and the traveler must have provisions for the path of the residence of the station, and the places of that abode, for as Imam Ali, may God honor him, said:

There is no home for a person to live in after death, except for the one that was built before death

If he builds it well, his dwelling will be happy / and if a man built it, his builder will be disappointed

And this is what God Almighty has commanded us by saying: {And we wish that you should enter Paradise as you inherited it according to what you used to do}. God Almighty is upon us, and the supererogatory actions that the Lord, Glory be to Him, called upon and our Prophet Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, urged, except for the sake of that abode so that we may be happy in it. The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: “There are two blessings which many people neglect: health and free time” i.e., because he did not seize them for what benefits him, and in the other hadeeth: “The people of Paradise will not regret anything except for an hour that passed by them when they did not mention God” because the remembrance of God Almighty is with the tongue. Or the pillars is a building for the available time, and if a person does not seize it, he is concerned about it, and therefore it was said:

Tomorrow the souls will pay what they earned / and the sowers will reap what they sow

If they do good, they do good for themselves / and if they do evil, then evil is what they have done

The same times have come upon us;

These are the times of the ten days of Dhul-Hijjah, which God Almighty swore to note by virtue of them, so He Almighty said: {And the dawn and the ten nights and the intercession and the odd nights and the night when it eases the mind is in that slumber, and it is the secret of that.

It is an oath to point out the virtues of these blessed times and days so that they pay attention to them and take advantage of them in what benefits them, which is what the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, explained by saying: “There are no days better with God than the ten days of Dhul-Hijjah,” and in the narration “There are no days of righteous deeds in them.” I love God more than these ten days.” They said: O Messenger of God, is it not jihad for the sake of God?

The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: “Not even jihad in the cause of God, except for a man who went out with himself and his money and did not return with anything.”

It is from the grace of God Almighty that He did not specify a righteous deed in these ten days, but rather generalized it so that a person could do what he could of it, fasting, standing, alms, preparing sacrifices, or other acts of worship, in addition to performing Hajj and Umrah. It is good, and it is necessary to leave the bad.

We ask God to grant success to what He loves and is pleased with.

• In fact, this world is a passageway to the home of the hereafter. In this world, a person embarks on a serious journey, and the traveler must have provisions for the path of the abode of the station.

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