On the occasion of the vacation, what is your advice regarding these matters: the concept of vacation and that it is sleep and play
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The questioner : May Allah reward the honorableThe Shaykh : On the occasion of the vacation, what is your advice regarding these matters: the concept of vacation and that it is sleep and play.
The Shaykh : And what is it?
The questioner : And that it is sleep and play. The role of parents in protecting their sons and daughters and enrolling them in the circles of the community and summer centers. People and staying up late. Students of knowledge and memorizing texts and acquisition?
The Shaykh : What is this?
The questioner : He says, what is your advice regarding these matters?
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, give them to me one by one.
The questioner : The concept of vacation and that it is sleep and play?
The Shaykh : This is undoubtedly a wrong concept, sleep and play. Who would entrust the precious to Allah with such things? Life is more precious than wealth and more valuable than wealth. We are amazed! A person loses a great deal of his time and era. But if he were asked to lose a single dirham, he would not part with it except with stinginess. And life is more precious than wealth. Listen to the saying of Allah (Mighty and Majestic):[Al-Mu'minun 23:99] What? [Al-Mu'minun 23:100]. And no one dies but that he regrets; if he was a doer of good, he regrets that he did not increase, and if he was a doer of evil, he regrets that he did not seek forgiveness. These people have truly lost both religion and worldly life. Yes. The second?
The questioner : He says: The role of parents in protecting their sons and daughters and enrolling them in the circles of the community and summer centers?
The Shaykh : Yes. Parents are commanded to care for their sons and daughters with good care, and enrolling them in these circles of the Qur'an is undoubtedly a great good for them and for their sons and daughters. Likewise, in the summer centers, if those in charge of the centers are people whose religion, trustworthiness, and morals are reliable. The third?
The questioner : People and staying up late?
The Shaykh : People and staying up late? This is also a waste of time. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked conversation after the 'Isha' prayer, because if a person talks after 'Isha', his staying up becomes prolonged and it becomes difficult for him to perform the tahajjud prayer at night. And it may become difficult for him to perform the Fajr prayer. So what a person should do is sleep early, as it is healthier for the body and more beneficial for the heart.
The questioner : Your advice to students of knowledge regarding memorizing texts and acquisition?
The Shaykh : Yes, my advice to students of knowledge is to make use of this vacation as a time in which they can memorize the Book of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and memorize what is easy of the authentic Sunnah. As for the Qur'an, it is obvious. As for the authentic Sunnah, the best thing to rely on is *Umdat al-Ahkam* by al-Hafiz 'Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi (may Allah have mercy on him), because all its hadiths are authentic. A person memorizes it and benefits from it. He memorizes, for example, *Al-'Aqidah al-Wasitiyyah* by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. He memorizes *Kitab al-Tawhid* by Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab. He memorizes *Zad al-Mustaqni'* in jurisprudence. He memorizes *Alfiyyat Ibn Malik* in grammar, as much as is easy.
Yes.
The Shaykh : And what is it?
The questioner : And that it is sleep and play. The role of parents in protecting their sons and daughters and enrolling them in the circles of the community and summer centers. People and staying up late. Students of knowledge and memorizing texts and acquisition?
The Shaykh : What is this?
The questioner : He says, what is your advice regarding these matters?
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, give them to me one by one.
The questioner : The concept of vacation and that it is sleep and play?
The Shaykh : This is undoubtedly a wrong concept, sleep and play. Who would entrust the precious to Allah with such things? Life is more precious than wealth and more valuable than wealth. We are amazed! A person loses a great deal of his time and era. But if he were asked to lose a single dirham, he would not part with it except with stinginess. And life is more precious than wealth. Listen to the saying of Allah (Mighty and Majestic):
[For such is the state of the disbelievers], until, when death comes to one of them, he says, "My Lord, send me back
حَتَّى إِذَا جَاءَ أَحَدَهُمُ الْمَوْتُ قَالَ رَبِّ ارْجِعُونِThat I might do righteousness in that which I left behind
لَعَلِّي أَعْمَلُ صَالِحًا فِيمَا تَرَكْتُThe questioner : He says: The role of parents in protecting their sons and daughters and enrolling them in the circles of the community and summer centers?
The Shaykh : Yes. Parents are commanded to care for their sons and daughters with good care, and enrolling them in these circles of the Qur'an is undoubtedly a great good for them and for their sons and daughters. Likewise, in the summer centers, if those in charge of the centers are people whose religion, trustworthiness, and morals are reliable. The third?
The questioner : People and staying up late?
The Shaykh : People and staying up late? This is also a waste of time. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked conversation after the 'Isha' prayer, because if a person talks after 'Isha', his staying up becomes prolonged and it becomes difficult for him to perform the tahajjud prayer at night. And it may become difficult for him to perform the Fajr prayer. So what a person should do is sleep early, as it is healthier for the body and more beneficial for the heart.
The questioner : Your advice to students of knowledge regarding memorizing texts and acquisition?
The Shaykh : Yes, my advice to students of knowledge is to make use of this vacation as a time in which they can memorize the Book of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and memorize what is easy of the authentic Sunnah. As for the Qur'an, it is obvious. As for the authentic Sunnah, the best thing to rely on is *Umdat al-Ahkam* by al-Hafiz 'Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi (may Allah have mercy on him), because all its hadiths are authentic. A person memorizes it and benefits from it. He memorizes, for example, *Al-'Aqidah al-Wasitiyyah* by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. He memorizes *Kitab al-Tawhid* by Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab. He memorizes *Zad al-Mustaqni'* in jurisprudence. He memorizes *Alfiyyat Ibn Malik* in grammar, as much as is easy.
Yes.