as i'm speaking to you at this very moment
the clock is ticking and as you are internalizing what i'm saying the clock is also ticking
and as al-hasan al-basri once said it he said that adam o child of adam
you are but a collection of days when one day of yours goes then a portion of you has
also left as well so every single moment of yours is a moment of your life or it
is a part and parcel of your life when the moment goes a portion of you has also gone
my dear brothers my dear sisters for this reason allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
gave very great emphasis to time within the quran you see whenever allah wa ta'ala takes
an oath by something within the quran it is allah's way of telling us that this particular
thing by which i'm taking the oath is very great and very important and allah takes
an oath by time in many different ways within the quran so for example in suratul allah says
by time so he's making a promise taking an oath by time similarly allah tells
also by the night as well
the night as well as it envelops in darkness darkens
similarly allah subhanahu wa ta'ala takes an oath by the whole and complete morning not just
a portion of morning which is but the complete morning when he says
and also morning time when it becomes evident and clear as well so you see allah is time in and time
again taking an oath by time and different portions of time to tell you and help me and
yourself recognize the importance that allah has placed within time time is very important and
the time is moving and the clock is ticking and as a poet says
that us within this world are like people who are on top of a ship and
the time is that boat and the time happens to be moving so whether you
do something or not the time is moving and this is why the arabs they used to say that
that time happens to be like a sword if you don't cut the sword the sword itself will end up cutting
you as well so the time is constantly chipping away at you the time is constantly cutting away at
you if you don't cut time meaning if you don't use it wisely then that time will end up bringing you
to an end and no matter how long you think that you're going to live you really don't know at
the end of the day how long you live and even if you were to live very long that very long time
is actually also very short how so you see if we were to think about the world as we see it today
and we don't just think about the 60 odd years within which we will live we think about
from the beginning of time till the day of judgment then your existence within this world
will become very very minuscule and very very tiny and very insignificant even within your eyes and
even within my eyes the reason why we think that 60 years is a long time is because we're
only looking at 60 years but if you think from the beginning of time thousands of years ago perhaps
and we look till the end of time meaning till the day in which we'll meet our lord the day of
judgment then those 60 years within which you will live they will become very insignificant
try this with me 60 years now imagine in your head actually the complete century 100
you've already become only 60 of the 100 years now let's go to a complete millennium
a thousand years now your insignificance and my insignificance has become even more evident now
make it two thousand years the calendar that we won't uh use around the world today the
gregorian calendar make it that way then make it more than that three four and as you grow in time
you'll realize that your time within this world is much more limited than you ever thought about
because we've never looked at time as a whole as a collection we only look at our own lives
there so my dear brothers and dear sisters time is of the essence and as a poet he said
yes
of a person that takes place when a person is born either one that the father does
within the year ear and and the fact that salatul janazah takes place when a person will die is in
evidence that the time within which the person will live is very short just like the time you
see between adhan and between the salah that comes after the athan so we're living between an adhan
and a salah i ask allah subhanahu ta'ala to allow us to make us the most of it make the most of it
is