The ruling on saying: "Time has struck me with humiliation"
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, he says: What is your opinion on these words: "Time has struck me with humiliation"?
Answer:
This is not permissible regarding attributing matters to time, and cursing time is part of cursing time, which is actually Allah who is being cursed. As for time, it has no power of action and nothing is attributed to it. Therefore, it is obligatory to attribute matters to Allah the Exalted, and it is not permissible to attribute events to time.
The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said, in what we believe to be authentic, that Allah the Glorious and Exalted says: "He harms it"Sunan Abi Dawud 5274Sahih (Al-Albani). So time is a creation, and the One who causes events, calamities, or blessings is Allah the Exalted and Sublime, not time. So it is not permissible to attribute matters to time. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, he says: What is your opinion on these words: "Time has struck me with humiliation"?
Answer:
This is not permissible regarding attributing matters to time, and cursing time is part of cursing time, which is actually Allah who is being cursed. As for time, it has no power of action and nothing is attributed to it. Therefore, it is obligatory to attribute matters to Allah the Exalted, and it is not permissible to attribute events to time.
The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said, in what we believe to be authentic, that Allah the Glorious and Exalted says: "He harms it"
The son of Adam injures me by abusing time, whereas I am time. Authority is in my hand. I alternate the night and the day
ابن آدم يسب الدهر وأنا الدهر، بيدي الأمر أقلب الليل والنهار
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