Time Management
It was said to a scholar, “Advise us.”
So he said, “Beware of saying “soon”.
(as in: “Soon I will do this/that”)
(Iqtidaa’ ul-’Ilm il-’Amal [The Need Knowledge has of Action] by al-Khateeb al-Baghdaadee)
(Read on pg 65-72, Shaykh Husayn al-’Awaayishah, Adorning Knowledge with Actions. Al-Hidaayah Publishing & Distribution Ltd. Birmingham: 1999.)
Sh. Husayn omitted names of the people to whom the sayings were attributed, fearing inauthenticity in the original attribution, except where the authenticity was established.
أكثر الناس حسابا يوم القيامة الصحيح الفارغ
The people who will be most accountable on the Day of Resurrection will be the healthy ones who had free time.
—Muʿāwiyah b. Qurrah [d. 113H]
(from Iqtidaa’ ul-’Ilm il-’Amal [The Need Knowledge has of Action] by al-Khateeb al-Baghdaadee)
(Also read on pg 65-72, Shaykh Husayn al-’Awaayishah, Adorning Knowledge with Actions. Al-Hidaayah Publishing & Distribution Ltd. Birmingham: 1999.)
One of the scholars saw his neighbors wandering aimlessly, so he asked them, “What is the matter with you?”
They replied, “We have finished our duties of the day.”
So he said, “And is this what the one with no duties has been ordered with?”
(Iqtidaa’ ul-’Ilm il-’Amal [The Need Knowledge has of Action] by al-Khateeb al-Baghdaadee)
(Read on pg 65-72, Shaykh Husayn al-’Awaayishah, Adorning Knowledge with Actions. Al-Hidaayah Publishing & Distribution Ltd. Birmingham: 1999.)
Sh. Husayn omitted names of the people to whom the sayings were attributed, fearing inauthenticity in the original attribution, except where the authenticity was established.
Meeting with people brings about no benefit,
Except with the increase of, ‘it has been said,’ and ‘he said,’
So spend less time in conversing with others, though barring,
The acquirement of knowledge or the improvement of one’s condition.
—poet
(Read on pg 133, ‘Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni, Don’t Be Sad. International Islamic Publishing House. Riyadh:2005.)