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Killing Time (Part II)
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When it is time for a person to die, he may ask for more time to do good deeds, as Allah SAW says (what means) in
?Therein they will cry: ?Our Lord! Bring us out, we shall do righteous good deeds, not (the evil deeds) that we used to do.?? (Allah will reply): ?Did We not give you long enough lives so that whosoever would receive admonition could receive it? and the warner came to you? So taste you (the evil of your deeds). For the Zalimun (polytheists and wrongdoers, etc) there is no helper.?
We say that we are so busy with our work and/or our child(ren), but Allah warns us against this saying (what means):
63:9 ?O you who believe! Let not your properties or your children divert you from the remembrance of Allah. And whoever does that, then they are the losers??.
63:10 ??And spend (in charity) of that which We have provided for you before death comes to one of you and he says: ?My Lord! If only you would give me respite for a little while (i.e. return to the worldly life), then I should give sadaqah (i.e. Zakaah) of my wealth, and be among the righteous (i.e. perform Haj)??.
63:11 ??And Allah grants respite to none when his appointed time (death) comes. And Allah is All-Aware of what you do.?
Many people before us used their time effectively by performing good deeds, teaching, doing something for the benefit of the Muslims, their families and their relatives, or by advising others to be good, encourage them to improve their behaviour?, and calling others to Allah (SWT) and Islam, etc. They considered every day that passed which they did not use effectively for the sake of Allah as denying the favours of Allah.
Today we have and we see the people who ?kill time.? These people gather to talk about things that are not related to Islam or the Muslims? affairs; they play around, backbite, talk about others negatively and?at length...etc. These people are not only killing time but they are killing their time -- and their time is their lives. So they are slowly killing themselves, what good deeds have they done?
The Prophet (SAW), said: ?There are two favours (or bounties) of Allah?s bounties, and in them many people are cheated (or deceived): health and free time.?
People underestimate the value of these two favours, and thus, they are cheated. This is like a person who has a house that he wants to sell. Someone comes and offers him ?250,000 for it. He isn?t sure of its value, so he hesitates. Finally, he agrees and sells it for that amount. Later he finds out that his house was actually worth ?600,000. Imagine how cheated he feels; imagine that feeling that if he had only known beforehand what it was really worth, he could have gotten more!
It is the same with our time. We underestimate its great value, and then when it is gone, we feel that we have been cheated because we didn?t get everything out of it that we could have. But just as the one who sold his house below its value cannot get it back and sell it at its true value, we also cannot go back and do more with the time that is already gone. At the end of our lives, we will not be able to go back and live our lives over again and we will not be given more time to do good deeds, to try to make up for the time we wasted.
So we must organise our time wisely, being very careful about what we use it for. We must treat the free time that we have, in which we could do good deeds as a precious resource, guarding it against waste or misuse.
Salaam (A)
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When it is time for a person to die, he may ask for more time to do good deeds, as Allah SAW says (what means) in
?Therein they will cry: ?Our Lord! Bring us out, we shall do righteous good deeds, not (the evil deeds) that we used to do.?? (Allah will reply): ?Did We not give you long enough lives so that whosoever would receive admonition could receive it? and the warner came to you? So taste you (the evil of your deeds). For the Zalimun (polytheists and wrongdoers, etc) there is no helper.?
We say that we are so busy with our work and/or our child(ren), but Allah warns us against this saying (what means):
63:9 ?O you who believe! Let not your properties or your children divert you from the remembrance of Allah. And whoever does that, then they are the losers??.
63:10 ??And spend (in charity) of that which We have provided for you before death comes to one of you and he says: ?My Lord! If only you would give me respite for a little while (i.e. return to the worldly life), then I should give sadaqah (i.e. Zakaah) of my wealth, and be among the righteous (i.e. perform Haj)??.
63:11 ??And Allah grants respite to none when his appointed time (death) comes. And Allah is All-Aware of what you do.?
Many people before us used their time effectively by performing good deeds, teaching, doing something for the benefit of the Muslims, their families and their relatives, or by advising others to be good, encourage them to improve their behaviour?, and calling others to Allah (SWT) and Islam, etc. They considered every day that passed which they did not use effectively for the sake of Allah as denying the favours of Allah.
Today we have and we see the people who ?kill time.? These people gather to talk about things that are not related to Islam or the Muslims? affairs; they play around, backbite, talk about others negatively and?at length...etc. These people are not only killing time but they are killing their time -- and their time is their lives. So they are slowly killing themselves, what good deeds have they done?
The Prophet (SAW), said: ?There are two favours (or bounties) of Allah?s bounties, and in them many people are cheated (or deceived): health and free time.?
People underestimate the value of these two favours, and thus, they are cheated. This is like a person who has a house that he wants to sell. Someone comes and offers him ?250,000 for it. He isn?t sure of its value, so he hesitates. Finally, he agrees and sells it for that amount. Later he finds out that his house was actually worth ?600,000. Imagine how cheated he feels; imagine that feeling that if he had only known beforehand what it was really worth, he could have gotten more!
It is the same with our time. We underestimate its great value, and then when it is gone, we feel that we have been cheated because we didn?t get everything out of it that we could have. But just as the one who sold his house below its value cannot get it back and sell it at its true value, we also cannot go back and do more with the time that is already gone. At the end of our lives, we will not be able to go back and live our lives over again and we will not be given more time to do good deeds, to try to make up for the time we wasted.
So we must organise our time wisely, being very careful about what we use it for. We must treat the free time that we have, in which we could do good deeds as a precious resource, guarding it against waste or misuse.
Salaam (A)