Faraz Rabbani – The Rawha #048 Make the Most of Five
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You're listening to the daily guidance for seekers
with Sheikh Farazrabani,
who will be covering Imam Yusuf and Abiheni's
beautiful collection of 40 sets of 40 hadith
of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon
him, as well as Imam Zarnooji's guidance for
seekers of knowledge regarding the ways of seeking
knowledge.
Today, we're going to have a
briefer
session of our daily Roha, and we're going
to look at one
hadith of the beloved Messenger.
And this hadith
bears a lot of reflection,
and
we are
upon
a time
namely,
we are on the eve
of
the day of Ashura
which is a day that cleanses one's accounts
from what
preceded.
So it is a time
because we know the Prophet said it wipes
out the sins of the year past,
right?
And it's a time of extra devotion and
any time that is a time of extra
devotion
of seeking of repentance,
it's a time
to
renew
one's faith
and one's
connection with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And
the the hadith that we wanted to look
at
is
a beautiful
hadith
of our beloved messenger, alayhis salatu wa salam,
which
the prophet
told
a man
when counseling him.
The prophet
told
a man
whom he was advising,
make the most of 5
before 5,
make the most
of 5 matters
before
5 matters.
And these are 5 things that
if
one
responds
to soundly,
then
one succeeds.
And if one doesn't
take care of them, one fails.
What are these
5 things? The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said,
your youth
before
your old age,
and your health
before
your
ill health,
and your free time
before
you are busied,
and your wealth
before your poverty.
And your life
before
your death.
And this is a detailing
of a prophetic
counsel
in the hadith related by Imam Bukhari and
others that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said, There
are 2 blessings
that
many people
miss out on.
Health and free time.
And that's,
you know, that,
you know, that
is
reducing it down to 2 things. 2 great
blessings that most people lose out on, health
and free time.
And people lose out on them, meaning
take care of them and make the most
of them.
Right?
But in the hadith that we're looking at,
which is the hadith of Amr ibn Maimun,
and this is a Mursal Hadith
because
this narrator Amr
ibn Maimoun al Awdi,
it has come regarding him that
he
was of the people who lived in the
pre Islamic times.
And he lived
and he became Muslim during the life of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam However, he did
not meet the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So he's considered one of the
senior
tabein
and there's a category of tabein
also known as al Muqaddramin. Right? They became
Muslim during the time of the prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, but they did not get to
meet him alaihi sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And he relates from many of the Sahaba
amongst them
Umar and Mu'ad and Ibn Mus'ud
and others
and he settled in Kufa
So he relates
that the Messenger of Allah SAWH said to
a man, so Imam Tirmid the narrate this
is the narration of Iamat Tirmidhi and it's
a mursal narration,
which is when there is a skip in
the chain
normally
at the end of the chain.
Right, so this is a Thebiri, he did
not meet the prophet so he is relating
from someone.
And it doesn't necessarily follow that he's
narrating it directly from a companion
because if it's only a companion that's missing
then we can be sure that it's a
sound hadith because all the that
it goes back to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
but there are other narrations of it that
are
also non Mursal
amongst them in Hakim
in his
and others.
But Iman Tirmidhi relates it Mursalen,
ikhtanim,
kamsan, tabla kams, make the most of 5
things
before
5.
And irtanim,
ganima
is to profit from.
Right?
To profit from.
Right?
The the ranima
in the battle are the spoils of victory,
that after all your effort, this is what
you this is what you gain.
Right? And that's the the prophet. Right?
The prophet.
And
life, as the Quran makes clear, is either
profit or loss.
It's ribhun alhusran.
It's profit
or loss.
Right?
This world
is a marketplace
in which you transact
in
your very soul.
Every person
heads out in the morning.
They are
trading
in their own self.
And one either frees oneself
or damns oneself.
Right? So
how do you succeed?
You must
you must seek profit, Ikhdanim,
Khamsan
Ablahams,
profit from 5 matters before 5 matters occur.
Shabaabaka
Ablah Haramik, your youth
before
your old age.
And youth here is not just the youth
of age, that well, I'm old now.
Right? But Shabaab,
Imam Mulla'ali Al Qari
explains Shabaab is
The time when you have the strength
to worship Allah,
right, when you have the strength to
do the good,
right, when you when you still have
the freshness of opportunity
from when
the opportunity is lost because of your inability.
Shabaabaka,
your youth, before your haram,
is
when your old age, when you become weak
from worshiping.
Right?
Though there are things that protect
one's capacity to worship Allah
2 of them, they say the people
of prayer
and the people of Quran
are preserved
from
Arzalil Umr,
from the lowest
of decrepitude,
right,
that you will never find a person of
Quran who is senile.
So
make the most
of your
youth before your old age. That's a first.
And you won't get any younger. So whatever
you are, you are younger than what you
will become.
And you should anticipate that you're stronger than
what you will be,
because the nature of this world is everything
is going towards its zawal,
towards its end.
So that's the first,
and your
health
before your ailment.
And your health,
Mulla Al Qari says, and your health even
in your decrepitude. So you may be weak,
but you still have some health, and you're
going to have less until the moment of
your death,
till
your
so your health, till your
ailment.
So there's always that opportunity.
And your wealth before your poverty.
And your wealth
here
is not just that you have a lot
of money. So I don't have wealth right
now. So no. What is the understanding of
wealth?
Said the Prophet,
wealth
is richness
is richness of self.
Right? Is for you not to be needy.
Right? For you not to be needy. So
Mulla'al Qadhi explains.
He
says,
All right.
So he says,
your wealth
is your ability to perform
acts of worship,
whether it be
of those related to
money,
right, make the most of your wealth. How?
By spending it in charity,
by spending it in good.
But
beyond that,
when you have the capacity
to do virtuous deeds
related to the next life. That is the
rich person.
The rich person is the one who has
the capacity
to do good,
right,
who finds within them
the capacity to do good.
That is wealth.
So it is
broader than just wealth of money. Right? When
you find within yourself the capacity to do
good, don't hold back from
it. Before your poverty,
when you either don't have
monetary wealth or you don't you no longer
find within yourself
that capacity
to do good.
Right? That you either lose your wealth and
you didn't give it in charity or you
lose
that
capacity within to direct yourself to the good,
meaning that any time you find within yourself
that capacity to reach out to some good
that lasts, don't hold back.
Make the most of it.
And
your free time
before you are busied.
Your free time
before you are busied.
The younger you are, the less responsibilities you
have in
the natural course of life.
So one of the 7 whom Allah shades
under his throne is the young
person who loves to worship their Lord.
You get more and more occupied by worldly
matters. But also
if you don't
make the most of the faharl of your
time
your time is a
vessel
if you don't fill it
with good, it will fill you with nonsense.
It will fill you with nonsense.
If you don't
free your time
and direct it towards benefit,
the nature of dunya is that it busies.
And make the most of your life,
even in the last moments of your life.
And this hadith should make one ponder
about what am
I doing
in life,
right, what am
I doing
in life?
And
right,
make the most,
right,
make the most
of
the time that you have, right,
Make the
most of the time that you have, and
that's how
the the foremost of people
are, that
they could not possibly do more than what
they are doing because they.
Right? They make the most
of their time. They see time
as
their ratzalmal,
right, is their capital,
and they strive
to get the best return on the in
the investment
of that time.
And part of being intelligent
is
is to leave the lesser for the greater.
And choosing what is better and superior.
So we ask
Allah
to make the most
of our time
and
to strive to be of those
fill
the opportunities
of our
of our time
and the moments with
which that which benefits
of knowledge
and devotion
and remembrance
and service to others and all that is
a means
of drawing close to him. And when given
choices between multiple paths
that we choose,
the more pleasing,
the more beloved,
the one that is more likely to draw
us closer
to our Lord mighty and majestic, illumined by
the light of knowledge so that we can
make
the better
choice
Muhammad
and we'll just close by a reminder of
what is it that enriches us in our
life. It's come in a hadith related by
Imam Ahmed and
even Majah
from Abu Hurair radiya radiya ta'ala Anhu to
the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
that Allah most high says,
oh, child of Adam,
free yourself
for worshiping me.
Free yourself for my service,
and I will fill your heart
with freedom of need, with wealth,
true wealth.
And I will protect you from poverty,
from neediness.
And if you do not do that, if
you don't free yourself
to serve me, which is both by the
acts of worship,
but
that free yourself
meaning
to have nothing in your life that is
not out of to Allah.
If you can do that,
then Allah will free you of all need,
of all poverty,
right, that that will grant you inner wealth,
right, and freedom of need. And if you
do not do that,
If you do not do that, I will
keep your hands busy.
Meaning?
I'll busy you in this life.
And I will not
fulfill
your sense of need.
This is related by Imam Ahmed and
Ibn Majah, which is sound hadith, wasallallahu ala
mashirun Nadeer, say, you know, an Abi Muhammad,
wala Ali yawasallam, may ask Allah to make
us with those who make the most of
our times and moments
and our lives
before our death
and our health before our sickness.
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