Days Are But Hours, & Hours Are But Breaths
:salam2:I thought share this saying with you all by Imam ibn al Jawzi mentioned in his book: Laftat al-Kabid fee Naseehat al-Walad...
Imam Ibn al-Jawzi said:
Know, dear son, that days are but hours, and hours are but breaths,
and every soul is a container, hence let not any breath pass without any benefit,
such as on the Day of Judgement you find an empty container and feel regret!
Prepare For a Day Like This.
On the authority of al-Baraa ibn 'Aazib (radhiyallaahu 'anhu) who said:
While we were with the Messenger of Allaah
, he suddenly looked towards a group of people and said:For what reason have they gathered here?
It was said: In order to dig a grave. So the Messenger of Allaah
became alarmed and startled and he quickly went ahead of his Companions until he reached the grave, then he knelt upon it, and I turned my face towards him , in order to see what he was doing.He
cried until the earth became wet with his tears, then he turned to us and said: O My brothers! Prepare for a day like this.
{ al-Bukhaaree in at-Taareekh, Ibn Maajah, Ahmad and others. It is a hasan hadeeth as indicated by Shaykh al-Albaanee in Silsilah al-Ahaadeeth as-Saheehah }
