We're in the month of Rajab, a sacred month. In [9:36]
We shouldn't wrong ourselves by committing sins - as they're more grievous; and we should increase in performing good deeds, because they're greater in reward.
‘Ali bin Abi Talhah said from Ibn ‘Abbaas, "...Allah specified four from them and made them sacred and venerated their sanctity and so made sinning within them greater (in consequence) and righteous actions and their reward being greater."
Out of Allah's graciousness and mercy, He granted us this month in order to increase in good deeds. When we increase in good deeds, our faith will increase. And we need our faith to increase before we enter the great month of Ramadan, so that we enter it with strong faith, and pray and fast in a way pleasing to Allah.
It's also important to note that there's no act of worship particular to the month of Rajab. People come out with many innovations, but there's no specified Umrah, fast, or prayer in this month. Any notion regarding it is incorrect. There's nothing significant about it, except that it's a sacred month.
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We want what we learn to be a means of softening our hearts. If our hearts were soft, it'd affect our faith, and we'd be motivated to take actions, do good deeds, not waste time. A person with a soft heart visualizes all the facts of faith - it's as if he sees the Day of Judgement, the moments he'll leave this world and enter the hereafter, etc. All this information is alive in his heart.
The hard hearted person doesn't know the reality of this life. He continues panting and fighting for this Dunya, until death strikes him, and he says:
It's difficult for him to increase in doing good deeds because the love of the Dunya prevails over everything else in his heart. That's what makes it difficult for him to comply with the commands of Allah.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
نِعْمَتَانِ مَغْبُونٌ فِيهِمَا كَثِيرٌ مِنْ النَّاسِ الصِّحَّةُ وَالْفَرَاغُ
"There are two blessings which many people waste: Good health and Free Time" [Bukhari]
-> Free time is a blessing from Allah.
-> There are people who have it, but waste it, and don't use it in order to come closer to Allah. They are مغبون.
-> We have to utilize our free time and good health to perform good deeds to come closer to Allah.
-> It's a blessing to have free time along with good health.
How does البغن happen? It's as if this Dunya is like a marketplace, and you have your capital in your hand. Your capital is free time and good health. You buy and sell in the market of the Dunya. The مغبون sell his capital for a low price, or buys something worthless with it.
He spends his free time and good health and buys worldly riches. Then he goes back home (to the hereafter) and discovers that he was deceived, made a huge mistake, and sold his capital for something worth absolutely nothing.
He discovers he's a مغبون on يوم التغابون. He discovers that he spent his time and good health in the Dunya, and where is the Dunya now? It's all perished and gone.
The fact of the matter is that most people waste their time and physical strength on useless activities.
While the opposite case, المغبوط, spent his time and good health in doing good deeds for the hereafter. He prepared for the meeting of Allah.
Check yourself:- What are you selling and buying? Don't waste your capital on something which doesn't deserve it.
What should I do with my time and good health?
The Prophet ﷺ used to say: "اللهم لا عيش الا عيش الآخرة"
Whatever I have of free time and good health should be used to work for the true life - the life in the hereafter.
Allah gave you these blessings to utilize it for the real life.
In [57:20] Allah tells us the reality of this life:
This life is:
- لعب
- لهو
- زينة
- تفاخر بينكم
- تكاثر في الأموال و الأولاد
المغبون wastes his good health and time on play and amusement. Women especially excessively spend time on their beauty, salons, etc. There's nothing wrong with that, but how much of your time and life do you spend doing that? And this زينة leads them to تفاخر, and this تفاخر leads them to تكاثر.
We spend our free time and good health on those 5 things.
But what will happen to all this? It'll become حطاما - like dry straw.
"و ما الحياة الدنيا الا متاع الغرور"
The Prophet ﷺ said, "A place in Paradise the size of a bow is better than all that on which the sun rises and sets"
and he said "A single endeavor in Allah's cause in the forenoon or afternoon is better than all that on which the sun rises and sets on (the whole world)" [Bukhari]
and he said "A single endeavor in Allah's cause in the forenoon or afternoon is better than all that on which the sun rises and sets on (the whole world)" [Bukhari]
When you leave your house to acquire knowledge, for the sake of Allah, reaps a reward greater than this entire world and all the it consists. One simple action.
This is what you should spend your time and good health in - in what pleases Allah.
When you know that this Dunya will perish, and the reward with Allah is better than the entire world and what it consists, it should make you use your free time and good health in performing good deeds and coming closer to Allah.
The Dunya should be like a farm. You sow your seeds now and reap the rewards in the hereafter.
In Verse 21:
Race towards the forgiveness of Allah, and to Paradise, the width of which is like the distance of the heavens and earth. That's what you should be spending your time and good health in.
Don't feel regret or sorrow for loss of any worldly things. There's no need to make your blood pressure high. There's no need to be sad.
You should feel sorrow if you miss out on an opportunity to do a good deed. You should feel sad if you didn't get up for Tahajjud, if you missed Fajr. You should feel sad if you missed out on acquiring knowledge. This is how we should live.
On the authority of Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with both of them, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ took hold of my shoulder and said, ‘Be in the world as if you were a stranger or a traveller along the path.”
The stranger comes from another country, and settles in another. He comes for a limited time, but his concern is his original place. He doesn't think of buying land, adorning his house, increasing in wealth. He'll do all that when he goes back home.
We should feel like him. Sooner or later we're going to leave this place - and then go back to our original abode, which is the hereafter. Adam عليه السلام used to be in Paradise, and we want to go back there. We're in this Dunya temporarily, just to work.
People on transit aren't concerned about the other people around them. They eat, drink, take naps, but they don't excessively enjoy and indulge in that. Everything has a limit with them. They're only worried about their destination.
We should live like them. We shouldn't interfere in other people's lives. We should eat, drink, but don't indulge in this world.
We should feel like a stranger or traveler while we live on this earth.
"...And Ibn Umar would say, “If you survive till late afternoon, do not expect [to be alive in] the morning. If you survive till morning, do not expect [to be alive in] the late afternoon.
Take from your health for your sickness and from your life for your death.” [Bukhari]
The more your faith increases the more you'll live like this. And if you love like this, your faith will be strong and maintained. It's the diversion with this worldly life that makes our faith weak. We busy ourselves with these 5 matters, that's why our hearts are hardened and we're unaffected by advice.
Whenever your self desires any worldly thing, remember these narrations. Tell it not now, later. You'll get everything later. And train your children upon this. I won't get everything I desire I'm this life; I'll get it in the hereafter, in Paradise, with Allah.
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