Beware of the treachery of time
Dr..
Yousef al-Sharif
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December 07, 2022
A few days ago, I witnessed a situation that affected me greatly. I saw an old man in one of the exhibitions, and by chance I found him asking one of the exhibitors for a pen or a notebook that was distributed as gifts to the visitors of the event. He wanted it for his son, although this man was the owner of a large company one day and he was Whoever distributes gifts and compliments people right and left, but because time is rotating, time has turned on him until he reached this state, and he seemed to be defeated and resentful of his situation, and his condition was saying, “There is no help.”
The most difficult feeling that you may feel in your life is to feel that you have no power in the face of life’s circumstances and its variables, especially when you are advanced in age and your capabilities and health and psychological capabilities, as well as the process, are limited, then it will be really difficult for you to strengthen your resolve and rise again if you fall or You got a problem that knocked you down.
For a long time, this idea has been spinning in my head, especially since I see many people who do not take into account this stage of life and do not prepare for it well, and imagine with me the situation of that man who was betrayed by time and after he was well off, he spends the needs of his days with the praise and ease of God, until the day came The one in whom he sat at home and became unable to work due to some circumstances or because he reached the age of retirement, and what a disaster if he was not insured with a retirement salary or did not save money to help him at this stage, then he will be waiting for his departure and hasten his request and wish.
Many people around us revolve around time, and this is something that we cannot fully control, so no matter how prepared we are for it, God’s will and wisdom will inevitably take its course, and I fully believe in this, but there are many things that we can do in our lives, especially when we are We have the strength and the ability not to be humiliated by age and to become humiliated by the limitations of our capabilities.
In fact, many of those who are in this difficult situation in different levels and degrees, there are those who worked hard throughout their lives for the storm to come and demolish everything they built, and there are those who have experienced difficult conditions such as wars and problems in their homeland that made them reach that state, and there are those who lived their lives day by day without He takes into account the tax of age, so he did not calculate and did not plan for this age stage, and there are those who said to themselves that tomorrow my children will grow up and as I raised them and taught them they will stand by me, but he soon discovered that our popular proverbs did not leave anything but said it, and then he mentions the proverb that says “Your skin does not scratch like your fingernail.” Even children will get busy and struggle with life, and some of them will fail to stand with their father in such circumstances, so beware of the treachery of time.
Because we encounter many people in our lives and we have become open to each other's secrets, so it has become easy to know and get acquainted with the experiences of others around us, and we know so-and-so and what stories happened with him, and so-and-so where the final blow was for him, and we know so-and-so and what his story is and how he succeeded in this And that, and let us take all these experiences as a lesson from which we draw inspiration from a path that suits us, and a path that makes us prepare well for a time when bodies, minds, life companions, and even children may betray us, especially since humiliation is very difficult at such an age, and internal brokenness will be deep at its time, so beware of it and work to escape from it if God has ordained. You should.
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