“So invest your time and do not waste even a single moment of it...” Leave off of you those empty exchanges of praise. Be greedy as regards to your day and night,and indeed turn all your attention to that which benefits you, for indeed life is short. And no one will benefit you, because you will die alone and you will enter your grave alone and you will be questioned alone and you will stand before ALLAH alone. Then, for sure you will be asked about your deeds. So invest your time and do not waste even a single moment of it. And do not be like those who when death, the destroyer of pleasure and separator of people, comes to them, they say:”Oh my Lord, return me!” [Quran, Surah al-Muminoon (23:99)]. Why is it that he wants to return? Is it because he wants to build a house? Or that he wants to furnish the house? Why is it that he wants to come back? Why does he want to return? He wants to do good deeds! “….Suchthat I may do good deeds with what I have left behind [Quran, Surah al-Muminoon (23:100]. Now you are here! So if you are one day going to say: “Oh my Lord return me, such that I may do good deeds with what I have left behind.” You are here now! Because you will not be returned.As for now you are here. Such opportunity, none by ALLAH will let slip out of their hands except the crazy. The weak of mind let such opportunity to slip by. This person that will later say: Return me to do good deeds, return me to the duniya to engage in the doing of good deeds. So, now you are in it so do the good deeds. No you are not asking to be returned. And this is very soon, because surely you will not be returned. The return isimpossible, and the way back is so long. So work today that day and prepare yourself for it. And know that no one will fast on your behalf. No one will pray on your behalf. Do for your own self. And be greedy as regards to your next life. Because ALLAH, blessed and high is he, has informed us that the disbeliever, on the day of judgement, will sayin regret and sorrow, “I wish I had prepared for my life (hereafter).” So what was this that you were in? It is not life! It is more like a mirage! This duniya is like a mirage that is soon to disappear. A rainbow soon to go away. Like lightning is there for only a flash,it doesn’t stay. If you want to hang on to this life and remain within it, try to grab a fist of water, you will not be able to. The one, who wants this duniya to remain for him, is like the one who grabs a fist of water; betrayed only by the cracks between his fingers. We need to leave off those things that we have been accustomed to. And from the things that have become habitual to us. As regards to how we spend our time, we have to be greedy as regards to the moments and minutes and seconds of our lives.The students of knowledge particularly are the foremost candidates for being careful about how they spend their time. Imam ibn jawzee after he narrates the hadith of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in which he tells us that Ibrahim alai hissalam told him to deliver his salaams to his ummah (of Muhammad) and tell them that Jannah is a fertile soil (empty land) and to populate it is to say “SubhanAllaah, Alhamdulillah, La illaha ila Allah, Allaahu Akbar” . So whenever you say these words, these goodwords, these lasting words, a palm tree will be planted for you in Jannah. This is an easy matter, SubhanAllaah, Alhamdulillah, La illaha ila Allah, Allaahu Akbar”. However I understand the excuse of those who were not aided by ALLAH (SWT). I ask ALLAH (SWT), “Thee do we worship, and Thine aid we seek. Show us the straightway. The way of those on whom Thou hasbestowed Thy grace, those whose (portion) is not wrath. And who go not astray” [Quran, Surah Al-Fatiha, (ayat 5, 6, 7)]. AAMEEN YA RABBUL AALAMIN.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 06:21:50 +0000
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