Time moves silently, yet it witnesses everything. Every moment that passes becomes part of our story. Days turn into years almost unnoticed, carrying with them the choices we make, the words we speak, and the intentions we hold.
By invoking time, the Qur’an draws our attention to something we often overlook: life itself is measured in moments that never return.
These two verses, just remind me of how valuable time is.
Time that is lost cannot be regained. It moves on with, or without us.
This Dunya is just a temporary stay, it will only have felt like we stayed no more than an hour on this Earth.
Sometimes, there are times in my day where I don't have anything planned out, so I just go scrolling on Youtube wasting my time. I then reflect on these moments realizing I could've done something like D...
Every second brings us closer to the end of our lives. If we don't use our time well, we'll face serious consequences. To succeed, we have to work hard, but failure comes without us even trying. It's like a story about a man who learned a lesson from an ice seller in the market. The ice was melting, and the seller asked for mercy. This made the man realize that time passes quickly, just like the ice melts away. If we waste our time or do bad thin...
One of my aunts and her family came to America for the first time to stay for 3 weeks. And during this brief stay, they are trying to visit as many beautiful and popular sites that they can in the limited time, eager to go from one place to the next and not waste any time. They want to have good memories when they go back home. So, similarly, this caused me to reflect that if we truly remembered that our time on this earth is short and limited, t...
Perhaps Surah al-‘Asr is so short because life itself is short. It does not give us a long list. It gives us, in a few words, what we must do with our limited time before that time is gone.
Surah al-‘Asr can be recited in only a few seconds, yet even during those few seconds, part of our life has already passed. We can repeat the surah, but we cannot repeat the seconds in which we recited it. The words return; the...
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful,
Ibn Kathir reported: Al-Shafi’i, may Allah have mercy on him, said, “If the people were to reflect upon Surat al-‘Asr, it would be enough for them.”
Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr 103:1
With the passage of time I find myself often reflecting upon this concise, short yet profoundly deep Surah and along with that I also find myself contemplating why this Surah would be ‘enough’ for us.
Every single human being is in a state of loss, and Allah swears by time itself so that no heart can turn away from that reality. The only ones who escape it are those who combine four things: genuine faith, righteous deeds, reminding each other of truth, and holding each other to patience through the difficulties that come with living that truth.
Imam Al-Shafi’i , may Allah have mercy on him, said, “If the people were to reflect upon Surah al-...
Reflection question: If I saw time as a sacred trust from Allah, how would that change the way I use just the next hour?
Answer: I may use my time productively, like how I always do with my work. With work, the employer trusts me to use my work time productively and produce something that actually help the company grow. To think about it thoroughly, I need to do the exact same thing towards myself, since I'm my own boss. May Allah guide me for d...
Many of us know the famous parable about time and the ice seller. A man stands in the marketplace on a hot, sunny day, selling ice under the intensity of the heat. He cries out in desperation, saying: “Have mercy on the one whose ice is melting!”
With every fleeting moment, he is losing his capital -the ice. And with every passing moment, it melts away, whether he sells it or not. This is the parable of time, and how quickly, like ice, it is dep...