رَبِّ ابْنِ لِى عِندَكَ بَيْتاً فِى الْجَنَّةِ
'My Lord! Build for me a home with You in Jannaah'
(At-Tahreem 66:11)


Saturday, June 30, 2012

Free Time & Health for Obedience



“A person may be healthy but not free due to being busy with earning a living, or he could be without need (for earning a living) & not be healthy.  If the two factors come together & laziness from acts of obedience overcomes him, he is deceived.  The full [picture] is that this world is a farm of the next world.  In it is business whose profits will appear in the next life.  So whoever uses his free time & health in doing acts of obedience is in an enviable position, fortunate, & blessed, & whoever uses them in acts of disobedience is deceived.  Because free time is followed by business, & health by sickness, even if it is only old age.”

Ibn al-Jawzī [d. 597H/1201CE]

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