عن عبد الله بنِ عمرَ رضي الله عنهما قال: أخَذَ رَسولُ اللهِ ﷺ بمَنْكِبِي، فَقالَ: «كُنْ في الدُّنْيا كَأنَّكَ غَرِيبٌ، أوْ عابِرُ سَبِيلٍ»، وكانَ ابنُ عُمَرَ يقولُ: «إذا أمْسَيْتَ فلا تَنْتَظِرِ الصَّباحَ، وإذا أصْبَحْتَ فلا تَنْتَظِرِ المَساءَ، وخُذْ مِن صِحَّتِكَ لِمَرَضِكَ، ومِنْ حَياتِكَ لِمَوْتِكَ».
‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Umar narrated:
1. God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) held me by the shoulder and said: ‘Be in this world as though you are a stranger
2. or a wayfarer’.
3. Ibn ꜤUmar used to say: ‘At evening do not expect [to live till] morning, and at morning do not expect [to live till] evening.
4. Take from your health for your illness 5. and from your life for your death’.
Provide well for yourselves: the best provision of all is to be God-fearing.
(2: 197)
Hasten, all of you, to the achievement of your Lord’s forgiveness, and a paradise as vast as the heavens and the earth, prepared for the God-fearing.
(3: 133)
Let them eat and enjoy themselves, and let their hopes beguile them. For they will surely come to know [the truth].
(15: 3)
When death approaches any of them, he says: ‘My Lord! Let me return [to life], (99) so that I may act righteously in whatever I have failed to do’. By no means! It is but a word he says. Behind them there stands a barrier till the Day when all will be raised from the dead.
(23: 99-100)
Mankind! Fear your Lord and fear a day when no parent will be of any avail to his child, nor any child will in the least avail his parents! God’s promise is most certainly true. Let not, then, the life of this world delude you, and let not deceptive thoughts about God delude you.
(31: 33)
Know that the life of this world is but a play, a passing delight, a beautiful show, a cause of boasting among you and a quest for more riches and children. It is like the rain that causes the plants to grow, and thus gives delight to the sowers. Then it withers, and you can see it turn yellow, and in the end it crumbles into dust. In the life to come there is terrible suffering, as well as God’s forgiveness and His goodly acceptance. The life of this world is no more than an illusory pleasure.
(57: 20)
