Many people say, ” time is money “.
But it’s not quite right.
Actually, time is LIFE.
Imam Hassan al-Banna said:
Anyone who knows the true value of time will know about life itself because time is life.”
Other words from Abu Bakr bin Ayyash who said:
If a dirham falls from the hand of one of them, you will find that one will complain about it all day long, ‘My dirham is gone’. But when he wasted his hours, he never said, ‘Oh my life is lost!’
To understand the value of time, we must appreciate it first.
And to appreciate we must understand the following things
1. Time is a gift from God
Allah says in the Qur’an:
And We made the night and the day two Latest Mailing Database signs (which prove our power), so We removed the sign of the night (so that it became dark), and We made the sign of the day bright so that you can easily find sustenance from the bounty of your Lord, and so that you know the number of years and reckoning (months and days); and (remember) every thing (that you need for the world and your religion), We have explained them one by one (in the Al-Quran) as clearly as possible.
— Surah al-Israa verse 12
This alternation of day and night is a reminder from God that nothing is permanent and this cycle will never stop.
So this should make us more grateful for the time given to us and we should not arbitrarily
2. Time is so important that God swears by it in the Quran
For the sake of time! Verily man is in loss – Except Mailing Datapro for those who believe and do righteous deeds, and they preach the truth and preach patiently.
— Surah al-‘Asr verses 1-3
Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi said when explaining the meaning of these verses:
Allah swears by asr – that is time – because of its greatness because in it good and bad things happen, health and sickness, wealth and poverty, and because of its value and how precious it is that it cannot be measured by anything else.