IF YOU DO NOT PRAY TODAY, THEN WHEN WILL YOU?

 

IF YOU DO NOT PRAY TODAY, 

THEN WHEN WILL YOU?

It has come from al-Firyābī that he said:

"Sufyān ath-Thawrī used to pray and then turn towards the youth, saying, 'if you do not pray today, then when will you?'"*

*Collected by Abū Nu'aym in Al-Hilyah (7/59). 

Sufyān ath-Thawrī advised the youth with a tremendous advice, which is to utilize their lives to obey Allāh. If the young person does not utilize his phase of youth prostrating for Allāh, then he may become weak and enter a phase of his life in which he would love to prostrate but will be unable to because of a weakening of his strength and sickness of his body. So he will not be able to prostrate. For this reason, he said, "If you do not pray today, then when will you?"

Book: Advice Of The Salaf To The Youth 

By Shaykh 'Abdur-Razzāq b. 'Abdul-Muhsin al-'Abbād al-Badr

Translated by 'Umar Quinn

Hikmah Publications 

P. 38

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