In Surah Hadid Allah (swt) refers to the example of the life as the
example of a Nabaat. And this Nabaat is deemed very beautiful, by
the kuffar meaning who, by the people that are the Zurra' the
people that are the farmers, right? a Kafir is a farmer. A Kafir,
linguistically, the word kaafir literally means a farmer. Right and
later on it was used for a non Muslim, but essentially it referred
to a farmer. So Allah (swt) says, that this is a Nabaat. It's, it's
produced and after it's produced Allah (swt) explains the different
phases of this particular, you know, Nabaat, and then Allah (swt)
says, The examples of life is the same as this, right? What's the
example of the life, it's small, that it grows, and then it gets
larger, and then the tree has leaves, and then the leaves become
pale, and the leaves falls and the structure falls, the human being is
small, then they grow, and they become stiff. When they're small,
you're able to move them around, just like when the tree is small.
If you if you if you want to move it in a certain direction, you take
a stick, and they'll move in the same direction, the way you direct
it, if you bring the light in a certain direction, it'll go in that
direction, you bring the light into another direction, it will go into
the another direction, and so on, and so forth. So when a child is
small, you're able to direct them in different directions, right?
Now, when the child grows fully, now we have a full tree, right. And
now, after the tree becomes full, we start to have fruits of the
tree, we start, we start to have leaves on the tree. And now the
leaves of the tree, they start to become stiff, and they make a
crinkling sound. Or they make a very, very sparkly sound as the
wind flows through them, right. And Allah describes that also in this
first. And then Allah (swt) talks about and that's referring to, by
the way, when you get too old, right? What happens, you start to
go Ahh as you're getting up Ahh as you're sitting down. And as the
tree gets old, what happens, right? The wind blows through the leaves
of the tree and it makes a sound just like a human being is to make
a sound and then the tree falls, leaves fall and everything falls
and everything comes to an end. And throughout these different phases,
we think that the next phase is going to be easier for us to
worship Allah (swt) and Allah (swt) says that, to remind you and to get
you to do work from now, and not delay Allah says (‌عَلِمَتْ ‌نَفْسٌ ‌مَا ‌قَدَّمَتْ ‌وَأَخَّرَتْ) the soul
will know those things that you did in the beginning. And those things
that it did later on within life as well. So you'll know about that on
the day of judgment and Allah (swt) is writing it down as your child,
Allah (swt) is writing it down as you grow older, Allah is writing it
down when you are in adolescence. When you're a teen when you get
above teenage Allah (swt) is writing it all down. Don't give me
excuses, oh, I'm busy with school. I've got exams I have this I have
that. And I have the other because as soon as you grow older, Believe
you me life is only getting busier, busier, you think somehow, as you
get older life will actually not get busier. That is amongst the
plots of Satan. And that's why the Messenger (pbuh), he (اغْتَنِمْ خَمْسًا قَبْلَ خَمْسٍ) that
make sure you take advantage of five things before five things.
Amongst those things. He said what? (شَبَابَكَ قَبْلَ هَرَمِكَ) your youth before you get
old. And also he says (وَفَرَاغَكَ قَبْلَ شُغُلِكَ). Also your you know, free time
before you start to get busy. (وصِحَّتَكَ قبلَ مرضك) and also your, your health
before you start to get sick. All of those things are coming ahead of
you. As you get older, you're gonna get busy. As you get older, you're
going to lose your Shabaab. As you get older, you're going to lose
your health. Don't think as you get older things are gonna start to get
easier, they're actually going to get tougher and more difficult. So
procrastination, as they say, this is amongst the traps of Shaitaan.
(تسويس) is literally from Shaitaan. And some of the Sahaba used
to tell us, Anas that (تسويس) is from Satan. When you say I'll do
itself, I'll do it later on, and so on and so forth. This is from
Satan. It's a trap.