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Taking advantage of five treasures before five others(20
February 2013)
With the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most
Merciful.
Ibn Abbas (ran) narrated, the Prophet (saw) said to a man while
he was advising him: Takeadvantage of five matters before five
other matters: your youth, before you become old; and yourhealth,
before you fall sick; and your richness, before you become poor;
and your free time,
before you become busy; and your life, before your death.
[Mustadrak of Al-Hakim, MusnadImam Ahmad]
These five matters are easy to obtain, they are easy to prey on
and catch, and very simple tobenefit from. Lets discuss shortly
about these five things.
(1) Taking advantage of youth before old age: The old is an age
in which the person does nothave the energy, enthusiasm, or mental
faculties that he had while he was a youth. Therefore aperson
should exercise this energy for the sake of Allah by procuring
knowledge of Allah,obtaining halal sustenance and worshipping Allah
through acts that he might not be able to dolater on in life. Allah
(swt) is pleased with and amazed at the youth who does not have any
evilinclination, who is straight in the worship of Allah and who
does not turn left or right to the pathsof shaytan.
(2) Taking advantage of health before fall sick: The fact is
that, being mankind, we do notknow when we will have full
possession of our faculties, strength or mental powers before we
willfall sick. Therefore take advantage of your good health before
that time comes when you fall sick.We have our full faculties; we
have been blessed with eyesight, hearing, health, arms,
limbs,energy, vitality, enthusiasm and many other things. Should we
not appreciate these blessingsfrom Allah (swt)? These can be used
for the worship of Allah. The least we can do is praying
theobligatory Salah five times a day, fasting in Ramadan and going
for the Hajj.
(3) Taking advantage of richness before poverty: One day we
might not have anything, andthe next we might have much more than
we need. So the wise person uses his richness before hebecomes
poor; he invests for his future. There is nothing wrong to make
sure we have enoughmoney for our family and our children and
ourselves, so we are not poor and we are not beggars.But while we
are doing this, let us not forget that we also need to invest for
the real future, our
real life after our death. The Prophet (saw) said, Verily, the
money that you spend in charity isyour money, and the money that
you leave behind is the money of your inheritors.
(4) Taking advantage of free time before become busy: This is
yet another great treasure thatevery single one of us possesses.
Think about how much free time all of us have been blessed with.We
have hours and hours every day and they go by. What do we waste it
on? It is wasted ontelevision, gossip and socialization of which
there is no benefit whatsoever, in this world nor theHereafter. The
greatest thing that we can do in our free time is to worship Allah,
and one of thegreatest acts of worship is to seek knowledge of the
straight path. Every one of us should recitethe Quran everyday and
pray some extra prayers as well. Spending time wisely does
notnecessarily mean purely religious deeds. Spend your time wisely
to learn something that canbenefit you in this world and other
people as well. All of the acts of a Mumin can be transformedinto
acts of worship if, and only if, he does them for the sake of Allah
(swt).
(5) Taking advantage of life before death: Every one of us has a
life. That is why we are hereright now. Every one of us without a
doubt will die and never comeback. How are we going to usethis life
before death comes? Those who make this dunya/world their goal and
live only toappease and satisfy their every desire, on the Day of
Judgment those will beg Allah to send themback to this life. But
Allah (swt) allows everyone only one life and nobody will be able
to go backand change his life. For every good we do we will be
rewarded, and for every evil we do we will bepunished.
Do not forget that the most important treasures of our life are
our youth, health, wealth, free timeand life. Value these treasures
and use them wisely to take advantage of these before they aretaken
away from us and substituted by old age, sickness, poverty,
busyness and death.
May Allah make us amongst those who can take advantage of these
treasures.
