Take Advantage of Five Before Five – Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell

Take advantage of five before five, a talk by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The ḥadīth: your youth before your old age, your health before your illness, your wealth before your poverty, your free time before you become busy, and your life before your death

• Every blessing calls for gratitude, and gratitude is shown by using the blessing in obedience to Allāh

• Youth is the time to seek knowledge, starting with the fundamentals, and to choose righteous companions, for a person is upon the religion of his close friend

• Shaykh al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh): worship is of three types, with the body, with wealth, and with both together, such as Ḥajj

• Charity does not decrease wealth, so pay the zakāh and give in the way of Allāh while you are able

• Do not waste free time on idle speech, and rectify the heart, for the whole body follows it

• Actions are judged by their endings, and only a person's deeds stay with him in the grave

Recorded at the Sisters' Afternoon at the Bookshop on 2/1/26