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One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:

asalaamualakum dear mu`min brother.

"There are two blessings which many people lose: (They are) Health and free time for doing good."

Can you tell it a little bit clearly?? i mean some more detalies..
wa salaam 

 

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Answer:

 

Waste health and good

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 8.421         Narrated by Ibn Abbas

The Prophet (saws) said, "There are two blessings which many people lose: (They are) health and free time for doing good."

 

‘Health’ and ‘free time’ are two favors which very few have at the same time; for when one is young and healthy, one is busy in forming and maintaining and providing for their family and has no free-time to do deeds in the Cause of Allah Subhanah….but when one gets old and one’s children have grown up and all the duties and responsibilities of the family/society have been accomplished, inevitably ill-health comes as a package with old age.  One may have ample free-time during this period of one’s life, but one’s ill-health prevents one from serving the Cause of Allah as one would like. 

 

When one is bestowed with good health from their Lord and has free time, instead of taking advantage of their health and ‘investing’ their free time in the doing of good righteous deeds that will bring them rewards and salvation in the life Hereafter, most people ‘waste’ and ‘kill’ instead of ‘investing’ their free time by either doing useless deeds, or even evil deeds.     

 

Thus the Messenger of Allah (saws) guided and reminded the believers that if one has been blessed with both or either one of these two supreme favors, health and free time, one should not ‘waste’ them in doing useless deeds which bring neither good to oneself, nor one’s loved one’s, nor to their fellow man…..but one who has been blessed with both or either one of these two favors should strive their utmost to do good righteous deeds which will bring benefit to him in the life Hereafter.

 

The basic wisdom behind the guidance of the Messenger of Allah (saws) was to remind and guide the believers that neither health nor free time will last forever; thus if one finds oneself blessed with both or either one of these favors, they should grab the opportunity and ‘invest’ these favors in doing good deeds rather than ‘waste’ them by doing useless deeds.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone.  Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

Burhan