Assalamualaikum

Dear readers

In one hadith of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) he reminded his followers upon 5 things

1. health before you get sick
2. wealth before you get poor
3. youth before old age gets onto you
4. free time before you get occupied with so many things in your hands and
5. life before death

Why? When we are healthy we can do many things like prayers, fasting, reading Quraan, zikirullah, obey the parents, follow instructions from our teachers and we can do many other things in our offices etc etc. WE can only appreciate the value of health once Allah gives us a severe sickness such as H1N1, denggi, high fever, bad cough, lost appetite, lost weight, etc etc. We can appreciate the sweetness of eating grapes, oranges when we are really healthy right?

Wealth provides us good house, transport, clothings and good standing in the society. As teachers Allah gives us a small amount of wealth such as we are able to buy a simple house 4 bedrooms, PROTON EXORA, notebooks, internet, books, magazines, newspapers, motorbikes, bicycles and so many other things except the palaces of the AlSultan of Kelantan or AlSultan of Brunei (laugh). With wealth the people around us starts to associate our children to our good name. If a stranger comes to our village,by giving out our blessed name, the kampung people will start finding the link between that name with our wealth (who we are in the kampung). So the wealth has found us labelling / good names etc etc.

When we are young we can go to the mosques as frequent as we like. In the mosque we can take part in the work of dakwah (tabligh). we can go 3 days, 40 days, 4 months, 2 gazt per week, 2.5 hours a day meeting new people and we can talk about islam, amal, fikir in deen etc etc. Allah loves young people in the work of dakwah. When we are young we can do tahajud, dhuha,awabin, israk, istikharah and many other special prayers in which the name look so strange to us. Why not doing 1000 rakaats of nafl' solat when we are young per day? if blind people go up the mountain and after finding their ways to the peak of the mountain (while endangering their life and missing solat) they started to descend .. what a waste of time? why can’t young people be trained to do nafl solat as much as they can? why not trained youngters to read and memorize quraan say 1 juzuk per day. I think people will say I am gonna mad ..but if you look the people around you .. many people do not seem to mind sending their children to martial art classes, singing classes, piano classes,ride a pony classes, computer classs.. then why can’t they send their children to do dakwah all over the world. Remember sahabah of rasulullah (s.a.w) they fought in battles and they lost their lives in order to spread the deen of islam.. in China, Mongolia, Spain, Morrocco etc etc .. why can’t we do the same? Verily we have lost the iman , fikir in Allah and his deen. Thus we have muslim names but we wear clothings like the kafirs, our look doesn’t show we are muslims and muslimah any more. our thinking and dream are exactly similar to those the sahabahs called the infidels (kafiruns). Na u zu billah!
Our worry run parallel to the kafirs ..we worry about our children not getting jobs after their universities, polytechnics,.. n we do not worry so much if our girl do not pray 5 times a day any more. We marry our girls with those whom we please ( those who have jobs ) and our blessings in the marriage does not conform to what Nabi Muhammad (s.a.w) wanted us to refer to. The first is the direction must be ISLAM. Good muslims

Free time? When we are a bit free we can do many amals like dakwah, preaching the truth to our students, kampung folks in our locality, and many more activities like gotong royong such as clearing the fields in the graveyards. Clean up the drains. Visiting sick people. Go and see the drug addicts. Talk to them. In our free time we can learn to cook, to sew buttons and many other importnat life skills like learning how to change a flat tyre, changing hooks on cooking stoves etc etc. There are so many things to do whn we are a bit free. We can teach our own chilkdren mathematics, english, BM, agama ..and many more. Why sending them to tuisyen classes when we can do those ourselves. We can save sme money and with that saving we can do hajj in mecca as early as possible. We can do umrah or we can donate that money to poor people, orphans etc etc. See so much opportunity to get pahala (tzawab) when we are free. We can even check our childrens' books when they are fast asleep. At least we can know how they are dong all this while.

Right? Lastly is life before death. When yu are dead you do things no more. All activities are stopped immediately. Once death comes to us..all our intention of going hajj, mecca, umrah, prayers in the mosques, doing charity etc etc gonna stop at that particular time. the plan ceased! So before death comes, I would like to remind myself and yu readers let us do something for ourselvs .. something that can save us from the fire of hell, tribulation etc etc. When u have sick and old mother and father service them well.. b4 they are dead n no more with us. What is cryings ( at their dead body) when u have the opportunity now to help your mums and dads? Go my brther ..go my sister ..look to them and go and see the world ..u have so much to do now..

Wallahu alam.
wasallm.
p/s: make doa for me .. i can do what i wrote for you just now. Ameen.
mohd sazali khalid Ph.D

Original link: https://nenez9595.blogspot.com/2010/04/value-5-things-before-5-things-come-to.html