 فشرف بي لشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتغين ولا عدوان إلا على الظالمين وأصلي واصلم على شرف الانبياء والمرسلين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه ومن تبعهم بحسان إلى يوم الدين وبعد إن شاء الله today I wanted to speak about أهمية الوقت the importance that time has and to remind myself first and to remind you all that time is a ni'am from the ni'am of Allah that Allah has bestowed upon us as His servants and as you all know that the ni'am of Allah are divided into two ni'am which are usul the fundamentals and ni'ams blessings that are subbranches so the blessings of Allah are two types they are either usul the fundamentals the fundamentals such as iman believing Allah الإيمان بالله تعالى وبما جاء من عنده to believe in Allah and that which has come from him believing in Allah's name, his attributes believing in his prophets believing in the pillars of iman in general all the six pillars of iman the prophets the books all of them إيمانوا بالقضاء والقدر all those are the ni'am that Allah has given you if he makes you believe in those things those are ni'mas also العملو بمقته ذلك and that Allah gives you the ability to act upon the iman that you have it's from the usul of the ni'am that Allah has given you subhanahu و تعالى from the usul of the ni'ama also having صحة health and having عافية that you're healthy because these things are the things that helps you to act upon your knowledge and that helps you implement that knowledge and that helps you do the orders of Allah accordingly they are ni'am which are usul some are subbranches like المحافظة على النوافل العبادة if Allah gives you the ability and that he bestows that blessing to give you the ability to pray the sunnah the sunnah to give you the ability to read the Quran and memorize the Quran these are ni'am but they're not usul they are faru'a and one of the ni'am that are usul now is النعمة الوقت the blessings of time it's from the usul of all these things that were mentioned here because all these ibadat and all these belief they all occur within time I want to bring to your attention brothers and sisters verses of the Quran that Allah سبحانه وتعالى spoke about the impotence of time الله سين سورة إبراهيم الله الذي خلق السماوات والعرضة وأنزل من السماء فأخرج به من الثامرات رسق لكم وصخر لكم الفلكة لتجرية في البحر بأمره وصخر لكم الأنهار وصخر لكم الشمس والقام رداء بيني وصخر لكم الليل والنهار واتاكم من كل ما سألتمه وإن تعدوا نعمة الله لا تحسوها إن الإنسان لا ظلوم من كفار والله يقول الله هو who has created the heavens and the earth and sends down water as rain from the sky and thereby brought forth fruits as provision for you and he has bathed the ships to be of service to you that they may sail through the seas by his command and he has made rivers also to be of service to you then Allah says and he has made the sun and the moon both constantly pursuing their courses one leaves the other one comes one leaves the other one to be service of who to be service of you وصخر لكم say of this for you and he has made the night and the day to be of service to you these are نعم and he gave you all of all that you asked for and if you count the blessings of Allah never will you be able to count them verily man is indeed an extreme wrongdoer والله we are a disbeliever and a kafar a ظلوم and a transgressor we are so in this ayah الله سبحانه وتعالى is telling us and the نعمs in which he blessed us are with and all these نعمs that Allah mentioned are نعمs that Allah put in day and night which is time الله the sun the day the night the sun coming the sun leaving the sky the heavens all of these all occur within time it's a نعم after all of that look for Allah سبحانه وتعالى he said وإن تعودوا نعمة الله if you sit down to count the blessings of Allah and to put it to a number never will be when never will you be able to count them then Allah said إن الإلسان الله ظلوم verily man is indeed an extreme wrongdoer a disbeliever وصول الله said إن نذ آية وصخر لكم الليلة والنهارة والشمس والقامر والنجوم وصخرات بأمر إن في ذلك لآية الله سبحانه وتعالى says and he has subjected to you the night and the day the sun and the moon and the stars are subjected by his command surely in there are proofs for people who understand proofs for whose sisters and brothers proofs for people who understand إن في ذلك لآيات اللي غم يعقلوا فاشارة في ختام لآية إلا أن تلك النعم فيها آيات بالغة عند الذين يعقلوا it's for those who understand who ponder they'll realize the importance of the time Allah has given them سبحانه وتعالى something like that in Surah إصراء سبحانه وتعالى he says واجعلنا الليل والنهار آياتين فمحون آية الليل واجعلنا آية النهار موبصرة لتبتغ فضل من ربكم ولتعلم عدد السنين والحساب وكل شيء فصلنا أخ تخصيلا الله سبحانه وتعالى says in this آية and we have appointed the night and the day and the signs then we have made dark the sign of the night while we have made the sign of day illuminating that you may seek bounty from your Lord and that you may know the number of the years and the reckoning and we have explained everything in details with full explanation الله also says سبحانه وتعالى فصلت ومن آياته الليل والنهار والشمس والتسجدول الشمس والأليل قامري والسجدول لله اللذي خلقه اللين كنت مياه تعبدون الله says and from among the signs is the night and the day and the sun and the moon prostrate not to the sun nor to the moon but prostrate to Allah who created them if you really worship him again Allah is reminding you the day and the night which is the importance of time الله سبحانه وتعالى he emphasized and showed how much he bestowed upon us and the importance of time and place and what are allowed in the times and place as he said in this صورة الفاطر وله وله ما أسكن في الليل والنهار وهو السميع والعلم and from him from Allah and from among his signs سبحانه وتعالى he mentions in صورة الانعام sorry Allah mentions in this آيات and to him belongs whatsoever and the day and he is the all hearing the all knowing and also brings me back to another important point which is تأنيب الله للكفار أباع أعمارهم الله is scolding the kuffar for wasting their time الله is saying in the Quran speaking about the kuffar because they didn't benefit from their time and they wasted their time الله سبحانه وتعالى he says to the kuffar أولمه عن مركم تذكروا في من تذكروا وجائكم الندير فذوقوا فما للظالمين من نصير هل لن نقتي لكم ربما so that whoever would receive the admonition could receive it and the warner came to you so taste you they are evil of your deeds for the ظالمين the polyethists the wrongdoers there is no helper for them because why جاء على سبحانه وتعالى التعمير وموجب اللي التذكير والاستفصار الله سبحانه وتعالى The life that was long that he gave to them could have been a means for them to ponder and to understand and take and receive admonition وما يدانوا للإيمان واستيثار Rather benefited from that time and benefiting to remember Allah and the righteous actions This was nothing that helped them They didn't benefit from it ولذلك الحافظ من كثير إن تفسير of this ayah he said أي وما عشتم في الدنيا عمارا لو كنتم من من ينتفع بالحق لن تفعتم به في مدة عمركهم قال دقتاده يعلموا أن طول العمر حجة فنعوز بالله أن نعي ربط طول العمر حافظ من كثير said أي وما عشتم didn't live in this dunya عمارا لو كنتم من من ينتفع بالحق if you were going to benefit from the time لن تفعتم به because you would have benefited from it on your time that was given to you قتاده said يعلموا أن طول العمر حجة to have a very long life is a proof of Allah against you so we seek refuge from Allah that Allah gives us a long life in which we don't benefit from and this brings me back to the narration of Imam al-Bukhari or it brings me to the narration of Imam al-Bukhari that he narrated in his authentic book the most authentic book after the book of Allah on the authority of Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنودة the messenger said أعظر الله عز وجل رجل أعظر الله عز وجل امروء اخر عمره حتى بلغه 60 سنة الله will not accept the excuse of any person whose instant of death is delayed till he is 60 years of age there is no proof for you الله won't accept anything from you no excuses or like this or that because the death that was meant to come to you or the death that other people have got in a very early age you got it delayed for you you didn't benefit from that time and take heed from it also Imam Ahmad narrated in his Muslimate on the authority of Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنودة that the messenger said من عمره الله تعالى 60 سنة فقد أعظر إليه في العمر Imam Ahmad narrated in his Muslimate on the authority of Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنودة that the messenger said whosoever is granted a long life until the age of 60 الله has left no excuse for him بمعنى أزال عظره ولم يبقله موضع للإعتلار إذ أهمله طول هذه المدة المديدة من العمر الله has now taken excuses away from you because you were given a life for that long in which you could have benefited and taken lesson from it and it brings me to the point of the poet who once said وإن مراء قد صار 60 حجة إلى منهل من ورده لقريبه شخص يمتع for 60 سنة ماذا تفعل هذا الشخص يمتع؟ هذا صحيح 60 سنة في حياتك ولم تفهم ولم تنظر and this is to show again the importance of time the person who has been given a life of 20 years it's not the same as the one who was given 10 years and the one that has been given 10 years it's not the same as the one that was given 5 years وهلوم مجروا الله سبحانه وتعالى صور by time to show its importance and its greatness and there are a lot of verses in it تنبيو إلى عظم هذا الأصم النعم غير التي لفتها the importance of time and its greatness to show its importance and its series رب الأرض والسماء the creator of the heavens and the earth by time and this is to show you the quema of the time and the quema of the time الله سبحانه وتعالى والليل إذا يغشى والنهار إذا تجلأ by the night as it envelops to last swear by the night and by the day as it happens in brightness so Allah swt by the day and He swt by the night and they are both time وقولوا وتعالى الله also said سبحانه وتعالى والليل إذا أدبرا والصبح إذا أسفر in سورة المدثر الله says and by the night when it withdraws and by the dawn when it brightens وصبح الله سبحانه وتعالى والليل إذا عثى عثى والصبح إذا تنفس in سورة التكوير which means and by the night as it departs and by the dawn as it brightens who these are الله سبحانه وتعالى تقسم وصبح الله سبحانه وتعالى He said in سورة المدثر فلا أقصم بالشفقي والليل وما وسق meaning so I swear by the after glow of sunset and by the night and whatever it gathers in its darkness also الله سبحانه وتعالى He said والفجري والليل عشري by the dawn by the ten nights meaning the ten days of the month of Dhul-Hijjah على الراجح من قوليها للعلم from the strongest view of the scholars so Allah swore by the dawn again and the ten nights of Dhul-Hijjah also الله سبحانه وتعالى said والضحة والليل إذا سجع by the after by the full moon meaning after sunrise the full moon and by the night when it is still of darkness also الله سبحانه وتعالى He said والعصر إن الإنسان لفي خصر by the time verily man is in loss also الله سبحانه وتعالى said فو رب السماء والأرض إنه لحق by the Lord of the heavens and the earth it is the truth meaning what has been promised to you is the truth just as it's the truth that you can speak also الله said والسماء وما بناها والأرض وما ضحاها صورة الشمس and by the heaven and by him who built it and by the earth and him who spread it الله سبحانه وتعالى also says والفجري والليال إن عش which we mentioned قال العلمة بن القيم الجوزية رحمه الله He said إنه يقسم في القرآن بأمور إن على أمور الله says in the Quran about some aspects for another aspect فيقسم بذاتي الله says by himself by his power and his ability and Allah says by the characteristics in which he is in his attributes وبيأياتي and Allah says by his verses and his signs these signs المستلزم they necessitate لإثباتي ذاتي وصفاتي that necessitate the affirmation of his existence and his characteristics ويقسم الله says ببعض المخلوقات الله says by some of his creations why is he going to swear by it العلامة بن القيم says لدلالتي على أنها من عظيم آياتي to show that they are from his greatest signs to show you that they are from his greatest signs انتا كلامه كلام has finished there so it is important something Allah عز وجل سوى by and emphasized on how would one not be able to to know its seriousness and not benefit from time Allah says which I read before which I am going to read again he is in a surah سبحانه وتعالى says والعصري إن الإنسان لفي خسر إلا الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحاتي وتواصلوا بالحق وتواصلوا بالصبر صورة العصر الله says by the time very man is in loss except those who believe in Islamic monetism and do righteous good deeds and recommend one another to the truth meaning they order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds which is the معروف which Allah has ordained and abstained from all the kinds of sins or evil deeds which are the منكرات and they have to stay from it that's what it means and recommend one another to be patient from the sufferings and the harms and the injuries which one which one may encounter in Allah's cause during preaching his religion of Islamic monetism or jihad this surah is immense surah at al-asr and Imam Al-Shafi'a Muhammad al-Mudrisa Al-Shafi'a he said if Allah was to send out on his servants except this surah it would be sufficient for the people and Allah swore by it in the Quran I just want to bring to your attention the great scholar Fakhrudin Al-Razi who has a book مفاتيح الغيث which I don't advise many people to read because he had the belief of the Acha'ira and the creed of the Acha'ira ابن تيمير أحمد الله he refuted him in his كتاب تقديس التأسيس نعم Fakhrudin Al-Razi an explanation of this ayah brought out some benefits he said أقسم الله تعالى الله سوه بالأصري the time لما فيه من الأعاديب because of the fascination that I read in it لأنه يحصلوا فيه صراء والضراء because the good and the bad they happen in the time والصحة والسقن and the health and illnesses they happen in time والغينة and richness والفقرة they all occur within time ولأن العمر and because of the life of a person لا يقوموا it doesn't stand بشيء إن فاسطن والألاد the person's life will not stand except with that فلو بيعة ألف سنة if for example somebody was to forsaken a thousand years of his life ثم after that تبتر you repent وثبتت وثبتتسري لك السعادة في اللبحة الأخيرة and then it became أفرم for you سكسس in the last moments of your life بقيت في الجنة أبد الأبد you will then remain in jannah forever so it doesn't matter you benefit from that last minute of your life just before you're about to die then you forever will be the people of jannah وفعالمت you done أشرف الأشياء you done the best things of all your life هي حياتك your life في تلك اللحة لمحة that last moment of your death you were just about to depart from this world فكان الزمان من جملة أصول النعم remember that the blessings of Allah which he blesses us with they are those types that I mentioned before which are أصول and فروع and the time is of the the fundamental blessings that Allah gives فلي ذلك and because of that أقسم الله الله سوه به by it ونبها and Allah alerted سبحانه وتعالى على أن الليلة the night and the sorry the night one night and the day it's a chance يضيع الإنسان with the seven for six وأن الزمان at the time أشرف is most honorable من المكان in places فأقسم به that Allah سوه by it لكون في الزمان نعمة خالصة اللعب فيه إنما الخاسر المعيب هو الإنسان time is not something that is that's put down or that's عيب or mistakes or wrongness in it it's you as a person the Quran that's what it showed us to showing us the importance of time let's look at the hadith of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم the prophet told us صلى الله عليه وسلم أخفاري أنترميدي وان ابنه ما جه أُنضا أُفواريتي فعبد الله إبن عباس رضي الله تعالى عنهما that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم أسaid نعمة تاني two blessings there are two blessings فيهما كثير من الناس الصحة والفراق there are two blessings in which most people are in great loss good health and free time they are in loss لأن غب means loss also the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم هذا الوقت انه شيء يجب أن تسأل ، وانه مدينة تسأل على الوقت الوقت وإمام الترميدي يكتب من أبو برزة الأسلمي أن المسجد صلى الله عليه وسلم الساب لا تزول قدماء عبد يوم القيامة حتى يسعل عن عمره فيما أفناء وعن علمه فيما فعل وعن ماله من أينك تسب وفيما أنفقه ومن جسمه فيما أبلاق وقال هذا حديث حسن صحيح الإمام الترميدي رحم الله النريتد على أبو برزة الأسلمي أن المسجد صلى الله عليه وسلم يكتب من يوم القيامة وإمام الترميدي يكتب من أبو برزة الأسلمي وعن علمه فيما فعله وعن ماله وعن ماله وعن ماله وعن ماله فيما فعله أوصو الإمام البزارة طبراني نريتد فيه كتاب البزار نريتد فيه مسمد الطبراني نريتد فيه كبير وضع المعاذب مجبل لان مسجد صلى الله عليه وسلم السلام سلم لا تزول قدماء عبد يوم القيامة حتى يسأل عن أربع خصال عن عمره فيما أفناء وعن شبابي فيما أبلان وعن ماله من أين اقتصبه وفيما أنفقه وعلمه ما دا عملا به That the Messenger ﷺ said the two feet of the servant of Adam will not move from the from near his Lord on the day of judgment until he is asked about four matters. One about his life, how he spent it. Two about his youth, how he took care of it. Three about his wealth, how he earned it and where he spent it. Four and about that which he acted upon from the knowledge that he acquired. الإمام حاكم narrated in his mustadrak. في كتاب الرقاق من حريث ابن عباسر رضي الله تعالى عنهما. That the Messenger ﷺ said لرجل وهو يعذو. To a man that the Prophet was advising اغتنم خمسا قبل خمس شبابك قبل هرمك وصيحتك قبل السقومك وغناك قبل فقرك وفراغك قبل الشغلخ. وحياتك قبل موتك. قال حاكم. هذا حديث صحيح على شرط الشيخين ولم يخرجه. That the Messenger ﷺ said narrated by الإمام الحاكم من his mustadrak في كتاب الرقاق. On the authority of Ibn Abbas. That the Messenger ﷺ said to a man he was advising. He was advising. اغتنم benefit five before five come to you. شبابك your youth. قبل هرمك before age comes to you. وصيحتك your health. قبل سقومك before illness comes to you. وغناك your richness. قبل فقرك before poverty hits you. وفراغك and your departure. وفراغك your freedom sorry. قبل شغلك before your business. وحياتك your life. قبل موتك before your death. And this the Prophet ﷺ clarified to us. أن العمر ونصابه زمن. That the time is a portion of the question of the day of judgment. And it's an explanation to the ayah that so many people may assume and live in this world that they live in just to enjoy themselves and have fun and just play around. As though Allah created them for no purpose. Allah says in the Qur'an. صورة المؤمنون. فحسبتم أنما خلقناكم عبثا وأنكم إلينا لا ترجعون. Oh servants of Allah, did you assume that Allah created you عبثا for a joke or without any purpose or aim behind it aimlessly. وأنناكم and you all. لا ترجعون and you will not come to us. Is that what you have assumed? So my advice to all of you is. فجتيد رعاني الله وإياك. Strive. أم الله protect us all. أن تعمر عمرك بالعلم الناثع. ففل your life with righteous actions. والعمل الصالح and righteous beneficial knowledge. بالعلم الناثع and beneficial knowledge. والعمل الصالح and righteous actions. والمكسة بالطيب والقروبات الزكية and good earning and purified closeness. إحرص أن تغضو. بدنك وأبدانك من تعولي بالحلال المباركي. try to fulfill your body with good earnings and halal income. وأن تستعمل بدنك فيما يرضي الله عز وجل. And that you benefit from your body to use it for that which الله سبحانه وتعالى is pleased with. وحضر and be protected and safeguard yourself. وقان الله وإياك مواقف الخزي. From the places by Allah protect you and I from it. From the places of destruction. And to be from you to be from those من من تشهد عليهم السنة هم. To be from those who their tongues witness on them the day of judgment. وإيديهم and their hands. وارجلهم and their feet بما كانوا that which they used to do. بما كانوا يعملون.