Chapter: The saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler."

The reciter: Chapter: The saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): . Ali ibn Abdullah narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman Abu al-Mundhir al-Tafawi narrated to us from Sulayman al-A'mash, who said: Mujahid narrated to me from Abdullah ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took hold of my shoulders and said: And Ibn Umar used to say: "When evening comes, do not expect the morning, and when morning comes, do not expect the evening. Take from your health for your sickness, and from your life for your death."

The Shaykh : The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took hold of his shoulder so that he would pay attention to what he was saying. His statement: The difference between the two is that the stranger is one who resides in a town that is not his homeland, and the traveler is one who passes through a town while continuing his journey. That is, you should not take this world as your homeland, because people are of three categories: the settled resident, the traveler, and the third is the resident who is a stranger. A resident, but a stranger. So he says, "Be in this world as if you were a stranger," meaning a resident in a place that is not your homeland, or a traveler, a passerby who has passed through the town while taking what he needs and moving on. Who is the third? The settled resident, meaning do not be a settled resident, because it is not a home. For this reason, Ibn Umar was affected by this advice and used to say: "When evening comes, do not expect the morning, and when morning comes, do not expect the evening" meaning, work, work. Do not say, "I will leave the work of the morning for the end of the day," or "the work of the end of the day for the morning." Work, do not wait, because you do not know if you will reach the morning when evening comes, or the evening when morning comes. "Take from your health for your sickness" A person is not always healthy; he falls ill and becomes unable to perform the religious duties he used to perform while healthy. "Take from your health for your sickness, and from your life for your death" And your death is much longer than your life. If you were to live, you would live, for example, one hundred and fifty years, say so. But how many people have died? Thousands of years, thousands of years. So your death is greater than your life, so take from your life for your death. And this is advice from Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), beneficial advice, that makes one renounce the world. Some people narrate a hadith from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: First, this is not a hadith, it is not a hadith. And second, its meaning is not as some people think, because the meaning of the saying "Work for your world as if you will live forever" is: do not worry about what is not needed today for tomorrow. And work for your Hereafter as if you will die tomorrow, meaning do not delay. Do not delay the work of the Hereafter as if you will die tomorrow, so do today's work today. But take the world with ease, leave the world with ease. It is not as some people think, that the meaning is to perfect your worldly work and not worry about the work of the Hereafter, because the fruit of the work of the Hereafter does not appear until after death. So the meaning of this phrase is that a person should not worry about worldly matters in such a way that what is not done today is done tomorrow, as if you will live forever. As for the Hereafter, worry about it and do not waste it, do not delay today's work for tomorrow.