Auto-generated transcript:My dear brothers and sisters, in the famous hadith of Abdullah ibn Awar r.a who reported from the Prophet s.a.w.
The Prophet s.a.w. took hold of his shoulder and said,
Be in the world as if you are a stranger or a traveler.
Be in the world as if you are a stranger or a traveler.
Among the teaching stories that we hear, the story of a man who came to the house of a wise man
and he saw that the house had no furniture, absolutely nothing.
The story is also told about the house of a man named Farid r.a.
So maybe this relates to him.
So he saw there was no furniture.
So he asked him, where is your furniture?
So this wise man, he asked the man, where is yours?
So that man said, I am a traveler.
He said, so am I.
Ibn Awar r.a used to say, if you survive to the evening,
don't die.
Do not expect to be alive till the morning.
And if you survive to the morning, do not look forward to the evening.
In a healthy condition, prepare yourself for illness.
And while you are alive, prepare yourself for death.
And these are in Bukhari.
I will send you the references of this also, inshallah.
Another hadith in Bukhari, in Ibn Bajah and in Musnad ibn Ahmad,
Rasulullah,
Rasulullah said,
What have I to do with the world?
In connection with the world,
I am just like a rider
who sits under the shade of a tree,
then goes off and leaves it.
And this is in Tilmidi, in Namaja and Musnad Ahmad.
Rasulullah said, what do I have to do with the world?
I am like a traveler, I am like a rider on a horse
who takes,
rests for a little while under a tree
and then continues on his journey.
The great jurist,
Al-Fudail bin Yaad,
Rahatul Ali,
said to a man, he asked him, how old are you?
The man said, 60 years.
Al-Fudail said,
you have been traveling to your Rabb for 60 years,
which means that you are about to arrive at your destination.
So the man said,
Al-Fudail said, do you know what is the meaning of that?
He said, when a person knows that he is a slave
and that he will return to Allah,
he knows that he is to be asked about his deeds.
If he knows that he will be asked,
he should prepare answers to the questions.
So the man asked him, he said,
he asked Al-Fudail, he said, what shall I do?
So Al-Fudail bin Yaad,
Rahatul Ali said to him,
that is an easy matter.
So the man said, what is it?
How is it easy?
Al-Fudail said, you should stick
to the straight path,
meaning do not disobey Allah,
do not anger Allah.
He said, you should stick to the straight path
for the rest of your life.
You already live for 60 years, whatever is left,
stick to the straight path
for the rest of your life
and Allah will forgive your past.
You will commit sins, inshallah.
And if you commit sins for the rest of your life,
you will be held accountable for those
and for the deeds that you committed
throughout your life.
So at whatever point in time we get some guidance,
Alhamdulillah,
straighten yourself from that time onwards.
Don't worry about the past.
And this is one of the things that shaitan tells.
Shaitan says, oh, but you know,
your whole life you lived like this.
Your whole life you disobeyed Allah.
What is the point now?
There is always a point,
even if it is two minutes before you die.
We don't know whether it is two minutes or two hours
or two days or two centuries.
So from the moment you get the enlightenment,
the moment you understand,
yeah, I've been doing something wrong,
immediately stop.
Now, in the light of the above,
a poet said,
if a man walks for 60 years to a destination,
then the destination will be very close.
The destination will be very near.
Ibn Abbas narrated that Rasulullah SAW said,
there are two blessings which people lose.
What are they?
He said, they are health and free time.
And this is in Bukhari, health and free time.
Two blessings that people lose.
Especially if you think about it,
you know, in youth,
how much of free time there is.
Schools, colleges and so on.
In your, when you start working,