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Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem
الحمد لله و الصلاة و السلام على رسول الله و على آله و أصحابه و سلم ومن إهتدى بهداه و بعد رب إشرح لي صدري ويسر لي أمري واهلل عقدة من لساني يفقه قولي Salam alaikum
warahmatullah wabarakatuhu.
In sha Allah I will be explaining a hadith of the prophet
This hadith is found in Sahih Bukhari number 6416 and also is the 40th in the compilation or collections of Imam Abu Zakariyya yahya Ibn Sharaf An-Nawawi. The hadith goes thus: On the authority of 'Abdullaah bin 'Umar radiAllaahu anhu, who said : The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) took me by the shoulder and said :

Be in this world as though you were a stranger or a wayfarer.

It was related by al-Bukhaaree.

excerpt from 40 hadiths of imam An-Nawawi
In other narrations Abdullah Ibn Umar said: "If you see the evening do not expect to see the morning and if you see the morning do not expect to see the evening, And take from your health for your sickness and from your life for your death"
(Reported by Imam Bukhari)
The hadith starts with an advice or as an exhortation that :Be in this world as thought you were a stranger or a Wayfarer.
First who is a stranger and who is a wayfarer?
A stranger is someone who is new to a community and does not know anything about his place of stay. While a wayfarer is someone who is always on a journey he does not stay at all. According to Sheikh Uthaymeen رحمه الله we should be in this world as though we are new in it. We should know that even if we are a king in our own corner we should know that we are here to leave one day.
As a wayfarer this means we should see ourselves as a person who is always on a journey.
This journey is not they journey from kano to Italy.
It means a journey from Allah to Allah.
If we want to be here(Dunya) as a garib and 'abir sabil.
We have to be conscious of your stay.
Do not oppress,
Do not cheat,
Do not kill,
Deal with each other with righteousness.
Because we all will account for everything we have done as a wayfarer or a stranger.
Then Ibn Umar added that:
إذا أمسيت فلا تنتظر الصباح و إذا أصبحت فلا تنتظر المساء
و خذ من صحتك لمرضك ومن حياتك لموتك
If we see this statement we will think its a hadith of the prophet و لكنه ليس الحديث.
If you see the evening we should not expect to see the morning.
We should do whatever we want to do as soon as possible without said later or I'll do it tomorrow as no one has a free ticket to see tomorrow
No one is guaranteed the grace of seeing tomorrow
So we should do whatever we want to do without procrastination As Allah said :
Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 23:
وَلَا تَقُولَنَّ لِشَيْءٍ إِنِّي فَاعِلٌ ذَٰلِكَ غَدًا

And never say of anything, "I shall do such and such thing tomorrow."

Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 24:
إِلَّا أَن يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ وَاذْكُر رَّبَّكَ إِذَا نَسِيتَ وَقُلْ عَسَىٰ أَن يَهْدِيَنِ رَبِّي لِأَقْرَبَ مِنْ هَٰذَا رَشَدًا

Except (with the saying), "If Allah will!" And remember your Lord when you forget and say: "It may be that my Lord guides me unto a nearer way of truth than this."

Finally, we should take from our health for our sickness.
This is one of the five things the prophet said we should take note of before we loose them.
We we are healthy we will be very active so we should make the most of it by doing acts of worship that will increase us in piety and elevate us in the presence of Allah.
We should also make the most of our life before we die.
We should do righteous deeds that will help us in our grave and the hereafter.
Wa salam alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuhu,
Subhanakallahumma Wa bi hamdik Wa ash-hadu an la ilaha illa anta astagfiruka Wa atuubu ilaik.

Speaker : Balogun AbdulBasit Umar
(Ibn Umar)