22. DO NOT CURSE TIME (AL-DAHR)
I have not witnessed any calamity befalling people more severe than people blaspheming and damning time (dahr)!
This behaviour was known during the pre-lslamic (jahilliya) period but afterwards the Prophet forbade people from abusing time; saying, “Do not curse time, for Allah is time.”
Meaning: you blaspheme and abuse time thinking it is what departed you from each other, and made your parents die, while in fact it is Allah who controls all that.
I wondered how to teach the ones suffering illnesses [in their hearts] about this when they are upon what the people of pre-Islam (jahilliyah) were following. To the point where some of their assumingly intelligent people would spend all their time damning and cursing time! It can even get worse and they attribute to this worldly life what is of Allah’s; so they say for example: ‘this life did such and such!’
I saw many people believe themselves to be jurists and intelligent and yet they err and make such statements! This is because if their condemning statements intended to refer to the passage of time, then it cannot be blamed as it does not have a free will or a purpose or even distinguishes right from wrong for it is controlled not a controller, directed not directing anything.
An intelligent person should not indicate that the condemned; the misjudging and the deviating from guidance, is time! Yet those people deviated from the rope of Islam and attributed these ugly matters to the Creator and believed His Wisdom is defected and His Actions are incorrect just like how Shaytan believed he is better than Adam.
That being the case, neither believing in Islam nor prayer may help these types of people who happen to be more evil than disbelievers.
May Allah not rectify their affairs or guide them!
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
I have not witnessed any calamity befalling people more severe than people blaspheming and damning time (dahr)!
This behaviour was known during the pre-lslamic (jahilliya) period but afterwards the Prophet forbade people from abusing time; saying, “Do not curse time, for Allah is time.”
Meaning: you blaspheme and abuse time thinking it is what departed you from each other, and made your parents die, while in fact it is Allah who controls all that.
I wondered how to teach the ones suffering illnesses [in their hearts] about this when they are upon what the people of pre-Islam (jahilliyah) were following. To the point where some of their assumingly intelligent people would spend all their time damning and cursing time! It can even get worse and they attribute to this worldly life what is of Allah’s; so they say for example: ‘this life did such and such!’
I saw many people believe themselves to be jurists and intelligent and yet they err and make such statements! This is because if their condemning statements intended to refer to the passage of time, then it cannot be blamed as it does not have a free will or a purpose or even distinguishes right from wrong for it is controlled not a controller, directed not directing anything.
An intelligent person should not indicate that the condemned; the misjudging and the deviating from guidance, is time! Yet those people deviated from the rope of Islam and attributed these ugly matters to the Creator and believed His Wisdom is defected and His Actions are incorrect just like how Shaytan believed he is better than Adam.
That being the case, neither believing in Islam nor prayer may help these types of people who happen to be more evil than disbelievers.
May Allah not rectify their affairs or guide them!
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
I have not witnessed any calamity befalling people more severe than people blaspheming and damning time (dahr)!
This behaviour was known during the pre-lslamic (jahilliya) period but afterwards the Prophet forbade people from abusing time; saying, “Do not curse time, for Allah is time.”
Meaning: you blaspheme and abuse time thinking it is what departed you from each other, and made your parents die, while in fact it is Allah who controls all that.
I wondered how to teach the ones suffering illnesses [in their hearts] about this when they are upon what the people of pre-Islam (jahilliyah) were following. To the point where some of their assumingly intelligent people would spend all their time damning and cursing time! It can even get worse and they attribute to this worldly life what is of Allah’s; so they say for example: ‘this life did such and such!’
I saw many people believe themselves to be jurists and intelligent and yet they err and make such statements! This is because if their condemning statements intended to refer to the passage of time, then it cannot be blamed as it does not have a free will or a purpose or even distinguishes right from wrong for it is controlled not a controller, directed not directing anything.
An intelligent person should not indicate that the condemned; the misjudging and the deviating from guidance, is time! Yet those people deviated from the rope of Islam and attributed these ugly matters to the Creator and believed His Wisdom is defected and His Actions are incorrect just like how Shaytan believed he is better than Adam.
That being the case, neither believing in Islam nor prayer may help these types of people who happen to be more evil than disbelievers.
May Allah not rectify their affairs or guide them!
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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