Saturday, March 2, 2013

Serious people do not waste their time

بـسـم الله والحـمـد لله والـصلاة والـسـلام عــلى رسـول الله، وبـعـد

Hafs bin Humaid al-Akaaf said: “An intelligent person does not waste (free time and good health) nor does a devout person waste (free time and good health).”

Abu Haatim (commenting on the words of Hafs bin Humaid) said: “These are concise words with diverse meaning. As diligence is unbeneficial without success (from Allaah), nor beauty without sweetness, neither delight without security; similarly, intelligence is useless without piety, nor is memorization helpful without implementation. As delight follows security and as kinship follows affection, similarly, (the intelligence of a) man depends upon sound understanding.” [Rawdhatul `Uqalaa’]

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