By Time: We Are In Loss…

     Assalamualaikum readers (May the peace and mercy of Allah be with you). Without us realizing, time has been passing us by fast. I feel like it was yesterday I stepped in the year of 2010 and today it is already in November. Yes time moves really fast without us realizing that it is leaving us. It is actually a sign of the end of time as being reported in these translated hadiths:

Narrated Abu Huraira (R.A) that The Prophet (P.B.U.H) said, “Time will pass rapidly, good deeds will decrease, miserliness will be thrown (in the hearts of the people) afflictions will appear and there will be much ‘Al-Harj.” They said, “O Allah’s Apostle! What is “Al-Harj?” He said, “Killing! Killing!” [Bukhari; Vol.8, Hadith 63]

Narrated Anas ibn Malik (R.A) Allah’s Messenger (P.B.U.H) said, “The last hour will not come before time contracts, a year being like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour, and an hour like the kindling of a fire.” [Tirmidhi]

      As Muslims, we have to pay a particular attention on this specific matter because Allah swears about time in the Al-Quran in Surah Al-Asr (Passage of The Time) which can be translated as below:
 

“By Al-'Asr (the time). Verily! Man is in loss. Except those who believe and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth and recommend one another to patience.”  ~ (Quran, 103, 1-3)

     Since time passes us by fast, we have to make it count. Yes, every second counts. Islam advises us to better ourselves. So to make time counts, we can earn some benefits from it by improving ourselves little by little. It doesn’t have to be much but make sure every day we make some simple, better changes in life. Insyaallah (Allah’s Will), we can make a difference in our own life and lives around us.

     I guess I have to start cracking my book and doing my work because, like I said, time passes us by fast.  Let's preach and do what we preach.Wassalam.

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